Tiny Violin: Maddow Takes Pay Cut in New, $25 Million Salary at MSNBC

November 25th, 2024 12:31 PM

Puck’s Dylan Byers continued his reporting Friday night on the fallout from Wednesday morning’s official announcement that Comcast would be shedding MSNBC and five other cable networks (including CNBC) to become its own company with the revelation that far-left pundit and heroine Rachel Maddow was putting the finishing touches on a new contract for a “new five-year deal” that included a $5…

Puck Details Chaos at MSNBC After Joe & Mika Meet Trump, Comcast Sale

November 21st, 2024 2:20 PM

On Wednesday night, Puck’s Dylan Byers broke down the fallout from both MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-hosts and married couple Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s attempt at making nice with President-Elect Trump (to avoid his wrath) and Comcast admitting this week it’ll spin off MSNBC and six other cable networks.

Puck Details Why Wallace Is Really Leaving CNN (Hint: Involves Money)

November 15th, 2024 9:17 AM

Nearly a week after he published the bombshell piece about significant layoffs coming next year to CNN that will impact those behind and in front of the camera, Puck’s Dylan Byers reported Wednesday night that CNN host and former Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace wasn’t simply departing the network because he wanted to explore podcast, but rather due to the fact his shows were…

New Tit-For-Tat in Dokoupil Hubbub: Anti-Israel CBS News Strikes Back

October 10th, 2024 6:26 PM

Wednesday night brought more turns in totally unnecessary fallout from the September 30 CBS Mornings interview between co-host Tony Dokoupil and race hustler Ta-Nehisi Coates on the latter’s new book painting Israel as an apartheid state suppressing neglected Palestinians.This time, reporting from The Free Press, The New York Times, Puck, and Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo laid waste to…

Lyin’ Brian Is BACK? Williams Set to Return for Election Day on Amazon

October 3rd, 2024 5:22 PM

First reported by Puck’s Dylan Byers and others who’ve since followed, former MSNBC host and disgraced former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams will make his return to the journalism business on Election Day with a primetime special covering the election returns on…Amazon.

BREAKING: Norah O’Donnell Will QUIT the ‘CBS Evening News’ This Fall

July 30th, 2024 4:05 PM

In an interview with Puck’s Dylan Byers on Tuesday afternoon, longtime CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell announced she’d be resigning from the CBS Evening News after the November presidential election in order “to focus on major cross-platform interview specials” in what he nauseatingly dubbed a “new, Barbara Walters-ish role” for CBS.

LOL: Puck Dishes on Fallout From ABC’s Stephanopoulos Ripping Biden

July 11th, 2024 5:53 PM

Wednesday’s dispatch from Puck’s Dylan Byers fetched some comical bits about the fallout from ABC anchor and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos’s hidden camera admission he doesn’t believe President Biden is fit to (or can) serve another four years, calling him a “consummate professional” who’s not only “ever-disciplined” and “often soft-spoken”, but an “institutionalist” disturbed…

Meeow! Puck Says Claws Are OUT in Press Over Declinin’ Biden Cover-Up

July 5th, 2024 5:50 PM

Puck senior partner Dylan Byers had a story out Wednesday night filled with some juicy details on supposed infighting amongst the Biden White House press corps. As he explained it in the subhead for his story, the post-debate fallout consists of the journalists who cover the cognitively failing Biden “pissed—furious at the White House, annoyed at each other—and ready to take the gloves off.”…

Coward WH Journos Reportedly Admit to Covering Up Biden’s Mental Slide

February 15th, 2024 12:14 PM

Posted late Wednesday, Puck founding partner Dylan Byers wrote that, based on multiple anonymous conversations, chicken-hearted members of the Biden White House press corps have purposefully been refusing to make President Biden’s mental decline an issue and instead kept it from the American public so as not to lose access to Biden officials and/or incur their wrath.

New Deckchair for the Titanic: Ex-BBC, NYT Tapped to Lead Divisive CNN

August 31st, 2023 11:44 AM

Publicly revealed on Wednesday, WarnerBros. Discovery tapped former BBC Director-General and former CEO/president of The New York Times Company to lead CNN as it continues to struggle not only with ratings, but improving its image from the days of the Jeffrey Zucker-led circus that lived for spewing venom at Donald Trump and the GOP writ large.

Mag Pens Piece Blasting Ex-CNN Puppetmaster. His Allies Went BALLISTIC

July 27th, 2023 6:26 PM

Having published a piece in April detailing Don Lemon’s decades of insufferable behavior inside CNN, Variety’s Tatiana Siegel blew the lid Monday night off Jeff Zucker, the former CNN boss and puppetmaster whose allies engaged in a blatant smear campaign against his replacement, Chris Licht. Siegel explained how Zucker and a team of allies undermined Licht and Warner Bros. Discovery…

CNN Zuckerbots Are Reportedly Over the Moon Chris Licht Got Canned

June 15th, 2023 11:17 AM

Puck’s Dylan Byers ended last week with some scuttlebutt on his ex-employer following the axing of CNN boss Chris Licht that, as we’ve repeatedly documented (see here and here), came down to a Mean Girls-like disgust and smear campaign by the litany of CNN employees Licht and Warner Bros. Discovery head honcho David Zaslav not only failed to jettison for loyalty to former puppetmaster…

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BREAKING: Chris Licht Is OUT at CNN After Failed, Tumultuous Stint

June 7th, 2023 9:58 AM

In news first broken Wednesday morning by former CNN media reporter Dylan Byers of Puck, embattled CNN chief executive Chris Licht is stepping down from the network and parent company Warner Bros. Discovery after a tumultuous tenure marked by his inability to have buy in from a far-left employee base still loyal to their former puppetmaster, Jeff Zucker.

Everyone Point & Laugh at How Much Lefty Journos Hate Working at CNN

May 18th, 2023 12:10 PM

A former CNN media reporter, Puck News’s Dylan Byers wrote Wednesday night that CNN is currently “a seismic mess” and in a state of “depleted morale” and “overwhelming sense of frustration and resentment” with employees enraged by boss Chris Licht in general and, specifically, his decision to host a town hall with former President Trump.  The employees remain hellbent on running the asylum as…