Merrill Brown
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The least experienced person ever to run a major news organization has, despite her own sympathies about concentration camps in WWII, chosen to delay a story about the horrors in a US camp. Tragic for one of the greatest investigative organizations in global news history. And yet, not shocking.
CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social
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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The least experienced person ever to run a major news organization has, despite her own sympathies about concentration camps in WWII, chosen to delay a story about the horrors in a US camp. Tragic for one of the greatest investigative organizations in global news history. And yet, not shocking.
Writer @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social would rather assess trivial vibes than pay attention to what Trump is doing now in S. America, while gutting the independece of the Fed and other agencies, causing havoc in health care and killing DOJ. Changed vibes slow nothing down.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
Opinion | The Trump Vibe Shift Is Dead
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December 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Writer @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social would rather assess trivial vibes than pay attention to what Trump is doing now in S. America, while gutting the independece of the Fed and other agencies, causing havoc in health care and killing DOJ. Changed vibes slow nothing down.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
Is it reasonable to assume that we'll be seeing conservative stars like Greg Gutfeld on @cbsnews.com before too long? www.foxnews.com/video/638431...
Greg Gutfeld: The media has to either 'admit delusion' or clean house | Fox News Video
'The Five' discusses the Democratic Party's 'delusion' after California Gov. Gavin Newsom gushed over the Biden presidency, while former Vice President Kamala Harris lashes out.
www.foxnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Is it reasonable to assume that we'll be seeing conservative stars like Greg Gutfeld on @cbsnews.com before too long? www.foxnews.com/video/638431...
On with @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social at 6:30 this evening at americaamerica.news
I will be joining @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social later today for a timely discussion about the appointment of The Free Press founder Bari Weiss as top editor of @cbsnews.com
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America, America | Steven Beschloss | Substack
Essays of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. With passion and urgency. Click to read America, America, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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October 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
On with @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social at 6:30 this evening at americaamerica.news
I will be joining @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social later today for a timely discussion about the appointment of The Free Press founder Bari Weiss as top editor of @cbsnews.com
Join us www.americaamerica.news
Join us www.americaamerica.news
America, America | Steven Beschloss | Substack
Essays of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. With passion and urgency. Click to read America, America, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
www.americaamerica.news
October 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I will be joining @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social later today for a timely discussion about the appointment of The Free Press founder Bari Weiss as top editor of @cbsnews.com
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What strength! What commitment!
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‘You essentially destroyed any chance I have,’ DNC chair told David Hogg in private meeting
Ken Martin expressed frustration and self-doubt in a meeting with other party leaders, according to a two-minute recording obtained by POLITICO.
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June 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
What strength! What commitment!
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@abbyphillip.bsky.social One way to look at the facts versus truth matter. The media came to consensus in the 50s that segregation was wrong and needed to be challenged. That's a truth. Facts then were behaviors that showed how the evils of racial segregation were implemented. @cnn-news.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
@abbyphillip.bsky.social One way to look at the facts versus truth matter. The media came to consensus in the 50s that segregation was wrong and needed to be challenged. That's a truth. Facts then were behaviors that showed how the evils of racial segregation were implemented. @cnn-news.bsky.social
Here's a recent podcast interview I did on the state of journalism and AI produced by The AI Forum. The podcast covers new directions for news and information and the importance of both journalism and AI technology at this current challenging moment.
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Merrill Brown on the Responsible AI Podcast — The AI Forum
How does 2025 remind Merrill Brown of 1995? And how can journalists use AI responsibly and efficiently? In this episode of the Responsible AI podcast, we speak with the trailblazing journalist and adv...
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May 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Here's a recent podcast interview I did on the state of journalism and AI produced by The AI Forum. The podcast covers new directions for news and information and the importance of both journalism and AI technology at this current challenging moment.
www.theaiforum.org/the-ai-forum...
www.theaiforum.org/the-ai-forum...
Here's @cnn.com conservative commentator Scott Jennings as he joins Trump on stage and uses it as an opportunity to talk about "owning the libs." Hey CNN any rules on your folks speaking at rallies?
April 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Here's @cnn.com conservative commentator Scott Jennings as he joins Trump on stage and uses it as an opportunity to talk about "owning the libs." Hey CNN any rules on your folks speaking at rallies?
I wrote about "regulatory reform" for years for publications including @washingtonpost.com. There was administrative process then and at least some Republican support for the environment. Today there's sophisticated tech/AI and this is likely to have lasting impact.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
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Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale
The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.
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April 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I wrote about "regulatory reform" for years for publications including @washingtonpost.com. There was administrative process then and at least some Republican support for the environment. Today there's sophisticated tech/AI and this is likely to have lasting impact.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
A hackathon like no other. Perhaps the riskiest to national security ever undertaken.
SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
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Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
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DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A hackathon like no other. Perhaps the riskiest to national security ever undertaken.
Wall Street and the rest of us are being asked by the administration to believe that the market drop is part of a strategy implemented to "save" and restructure the econony while at the same time permanently restructure both the economy and the federal govt. Really?
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge
The financial titans who backed Trump are now dealing with the fallout from his tariffs. They spent the weekend surveying the damage of last week’s major sell-off.
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April 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Wall Street and the rest of us are being asked by the administration to believe that the market drop is part of a strategy implemented to "save" and restructure the econony while at the same time permanently restructure both the economy and the federal govt. Really?
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
Fine harrowing @jvl.bsky.social look at the national collapse. Shares my view that we aren't really testing our imaginations. Imagine the Greenland, Great Lakes and Panama war plans sitting over at DoD. And the new court system. And bankrupt universities.
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The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
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April 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Fine harrowing @jvl.bsky.social look at the national collapse. Shares my view that we aren't really testing our imaginations. Imagine the Greenland, Great Lakes and Panama war plans sitting over at DoD. And the new court system. And bankrupt universities.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
Bad weather. Great people.
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Bad weather. Great people.
The first sentence of Trump's post is I'm afraid quite true. Never before such a "transformation."
There’s a very unwell man clutching the levers of power who badly needs an intervention.
“Beautiful thing to watch.”
April 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The first sentence of Trump's post is I'm afraid quite true. Never before such a "transformation."
Could somebody who understands the complexity of government payment systems assess this please. This is to be like the Trump Organization accounts payable system with the boss signing off on all expenditures?
@pkrugman.bsky.social @steverattner.bsky.social
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Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
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March 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Could somebody who understands the complexity of government payment systems assess this please. This is to be like the Trump Organization accounts payable system with the boss signing off on all expenditures?
@pkrugman.bsky.social @steverattner.bsky.social
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Not to be missed photo documentation of what happened in El Salvador. time.com/7269604/el-s...
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Not to be missed photo documentation of what happened in El Salvador. time.com/7269604/el-s...
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Jaw dropping ignorance. Witkoff knows nothing. Has no knowledge of the violence that Russians have used to suppress Ukrainians in Occupied Ukraine
It’s clear from this that the only difference between Steve Witkoff’s and Vladmir Putin’s views on the war in Ukraine is that Putin actually knows the names of all the five Ukrainian regions he wants to keep.
March 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Jaw dropping ignorance. Witkoff knows nothing. Has no knowledge of the violence that Russians have used to suppress Ukrainians in Occupied Ukraine
Guess if they're selling cars at the White House peddling fashion over in HR makes perfect sense as jobseekers laid off by OPM need to prepare for their interviews. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
Trump Appointee Filmed Influencer Videos on the Job
The official, McLaurine Pinover, the top spokeswoman for the Office of Personnel Management, said she never made any money from the fashion videos filmed in her office.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Guess if they're selling cars at the White House peddling fashion over in HR makes perfect sense as jobseekers laid off by OPM need to prepare for their interviews. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...
Once upon a time when a story like this, which merely involves an effort to cripple the nation's health care services, would have produced scores of reporters standing outside the homes and offices of executive and legislative officials.
Were's the urgency DC press? Weekend off?http://bit.ly/3FgRcTJ
Were's the urgency DC press? Weekend off?http://bit.ly/3FgRcTJ
HHS sends all employees a $25,000 voluntary buyout offer
The agency’s approximately 80,000 employees were emailed Friday night with the offer of a “voluntary separation incentive payment.”
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March 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Once upon a time when a story like this, which merely involves an effort to cripple the nation's health care services, would have produced scores of reporters standing outside the homes and offices of executive and legislative officials.
Were's the urgency DC press? Weekend off?http://bit.ly/3FgRcTJ
Were's the urgency DC press? Weekend off?http://bit.ly/3FgRcTJ
How ironic that this week Amazon makes available an extraordinary documentary about my former boss Katharine Graham of @washingtonpost.com. Here's hoping Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos, his associates and today's Post management spend 90 mins better understanding The Post and her legacy.
March 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
How ironic that this week Amazon makes available an extraordinary documentary about my former boss Katharine Graham of @washingtonpost.com. Here's hoping Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos, his associates and today's Post management spend 90 mins better understanding The Post and her legacy.
To Pres. Trump this is nothing more than another chapter of "The Art of the Deal." How many times has he walked out of a room of bankers or partners. And how many times have people to whom he owed millions done the same. It's just another tough deal. It's all he knows.
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"The free world needs a new leader": Allies defend Zelensky after Trump debacle
The confrontation with Zelensky exhilarated the Kremlin and deeply alarmed Europe.
www.axios.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
To Pres. Trump this is nothing more than another chapter of "The Art of the Deal." How many times has he walked out of a room of bankers or partners. And how many times have people to whom he owed millions done the same. It's just another tough deal. It's all he knows.
www.axios.com/2025/02/28/t...
www.axios.com/2025/02/28/t...
So the Bezos opinion dept. will only write about threats to "personal liberties and free markets." Everyone I'd bet currently working on @washingtonpost.com op-eds thinks there are no greater threats to both than the Administration he's cozying up to. There will be a lot of recruiting ahead.
February 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
So the Bezos opinion dept. will only write about threats to "personal liberties and free markets." Everyone I'd bet currently working on @washingtonpost.com op-eds thinks there are no greater threats to both than the Administration he's cozying up to. There will be a lot of recruiting ahead.
There's so much to keep an eye on and critique. And granted this isn't at Ukraine level importance but why are parties in a potential venture under study at the Justice Department's Antitrust Division meeting at the White House with the President and his staff.
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Sources: Monahan, Tiger visit WH to talk merger
Commissioner Jay Monahan and player directors Tiger Woods and Adam Scott are meeting with officials at the White House on Thursday as discussions for a PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger continue, sources told ...
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February 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
There's so much to keep an eye on and critique. And granted this isn't at Ukraine level importance but why are parties in a potential venture under study at the Justice Department's Antitrust Division meeting at the White House with the President and his staff.
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