Vega Says She’s ‘Scared’ to Talk About ‘Stitches’ Left by CBS Firing
Former CBS’s 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega came off like an eye-roll-inducing drama lama on Thursday night in her first set of extended comments since she was fired on May 28 as part of reshuffling inside the liberal newsmagazine, insisting “the stitches” are “still fresh’ and she’s “scared to be talking” given what’s “at stake” for the press in America.
Darcy Is BIG MAD CBS Ran Most of Trump’s Speech on Election Integrity
When CBS made waves Thursday as the only broadcast network to not only carry (most of) President Trump’s address on election integrity, it was only a matter of time Status founder and deranged partisan Oliver Darcy would take to his newsletter site and cry about it. So, that missive came down on Monday as he whined it went against what they had told Democrats hours earlier and further “inject[…
LAME: Reid Set to QUIT CNN for MS NOW, Wouldn’t Work for Ellisons
First reported late Tuesday by Status’s Oliver Darcy and the so-called media reporting class, liberal journalist Paula Reid is set to quit her job “in a few months” as CNN chief legal affairs correspondent because of “concerns” and she has about Paramount Skydance’s pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery and, thus, has exhibited “discomfort” at working for those dirty, supposed MAGA TV…
Column: When Cowardly Journalists Abuse Anonymous Sourcing
Journalists love to proclaim that they bring transparency to democracy, but it’s far too often the exact opposite. They try to run our democracy by exploiting anonymous sources. So when Trump is president, “senior administration officials” say “he’s coming seriously unglued.” When Biden was president, “senior administration officials” say “he’s quite lucid in private meetings.” Journalists use…
Darcy Spirals, Treats Weiss’s ’60 Minutes’ Changes Like Someone Died
Status founder, liberal media hall monitor, and virulent conservative hater Oliver Darcy took to his newsletter site Thursday night to drop over 1,600 words melting down over CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s remake of 60 Minutes by hiring author, filmmaker, and former New York Times columnist Nick Bilton as its new executive producer and jettisoning Tanya Simon, Sharyn Alfonsi, and…
Farcical Darcy Thinks He’s Cool By Again Beating Up on CBS’s Dokoupil
While Fox News has long been an almost singular focus of the so-called media reporting class, conservative stalker and Status founder Oliver Darcy seems to have decided in recent months to shift his weight to throwing daily Mean Girls hissy fits over CBS News and the existence of editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and Tony Dokoupil as CBS Evening News anchor. That was yet again on display Thursday…
NewsBusters Podcast: Putting a Redsteeze Squeeze on Media Misbehavior
Stephen L. Miller -- "Redsteeze" on X -- won our Bulldog Award for Outstanding Social Media Personality for taking on all kinds of media misbehavior on Elon's free-speech playground. We discuss bizarre rape-dog stories, the "Corbynization" of the Left, and Oliver Darcy's farcy website waging war on Bari Weiss as she barely makes changes at CBS News.
Petty CBS Staff Leak to Darcy on Garrett, Not Stahl, Interviewing Bibi
Status founder Oliver Darcy took to his newsletter Monday night with a predictable target in CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss with a predictable set of wingmen (and women) in anonymous sources inside the network. The topic? They threw a collective hissy fit over chief Washington correspondent and longtime political journalist Major Garrett scoring the 60 Minutes interview with Israeli Prime…
Mediaite Editor Suspended for Errors, Plagiarism Amid Use of AI
On Tuesday, Mediaite told Status’s Oliver Darcy it had suspended founding editor Colby Hall “pending further investigation” for “errors” in the sites’s One Sheet newsletter that Hall had insisted “were purely a result of sloppiness in how he aggregated and categorized information, not from the issue of AI.” This was despite the fact that he had hours earlier told Semafor he used AI in a “…
Deranged: Darcy Seems Committed to Seeing CBS’s Dokoupil, Weiss Fail
Status founder and former CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy took to his newsletter site Tuesday night for a psychotic tut-tutting over the supposed grave of CBS News under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, claiming Weiss’s “catastrophic,” “turbulent” tenure’s “five-alarm fire” has “destroyed” the “trust” “smart” viewers have in the brand in favor of…
Predictable: Darcy’s Website Is Upset Oscars Weren’t Political Enough
Despite the plethora of evidence illustrating otherwise, entertainment writer Brian Lowry took to Oliver Darcy’s website Status Monday night to complain Sunday’s Oscars had “los[t] its voice” and “collective nerve” by refusing to pay proper tribute to the late Rob Reiner by making the evening a courageous stand against President Trump, a man Hollywood and their ilk have falsely maligned as…
Darcy Claims CNNers Hate Scott Jennings, Have Gone Whining to Bosses
Talk about serious brain damage. Writing Monday night at his newsletter site Status, former conservative reporter-turned-snake Oliver Darcy beclowned himself by tag-teaming with a cadre of anonymous sources inside his former employer CNN to claim our friend, talk radio host, MRC Bulldog Award winner, and senior political commentator Scott Jennings has become isolated in CNN with guests…
Darcy PANICS Over CBS Ownership Buying Warner Bros., Make CNN MAGA TV
Status founder Oliver Darcy lost his noodle Thursday night in his newsletter over Netflix backing out of its proposal to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery and its litany of properties that include CNN, paving the way for the bid from David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance (which includes CBS). Darcy argued “CNN staffers have every reason to be worried” and predicted it’ll undergo a “MAGA-fication”…
Darcy & Co. Assert Cooper Leaving CBS Is About Its 'Rightward' Shift
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper announced he wouldn’t renew his contract with CBS News as a reporter for 60 Minutes after 20 years. He claimed it was to spend more time with his family, which cynics never accept when politicians assert it. The Left wanted to blamed new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss for it.
