Arguing Over a Sinking Ship: New ‘CBS Evening News’ Already Troubled?

February 13th, 2025 2:20 PM

Puck’s Dylan Byers wrote Wednesday night in his latest must-read media article that the mood inside CBS News has grown even more grim as, not only are they facing a lawsuit from President Trump and an FCC investigation (and, we would add, a public and private struggle session over their far-left staffers objecting to a host’s basic decency to defend Israel), but network insiders are now…

New Report Reveals Anger, Desire to Quit at CBS Over FCC Compliance

February 6th, 2025 12:47 PM

With new reporting Wednesday night about CBS News employees enraged by its compliance with the FCC demand for the full, unedited Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview and rumors of a settlement with President Trump, Puck’s Dylan Byers bolstered the argument the liberal media are filled to the brim with insecure partisans.

CNN Officially Axes 200 Jobs, Blitzer to AM, Acosta Dead Man Walking

January 23rd, 2025 11:49 AM

As first reported last year by Puck’s Dylan Byers and then confirmed last week in detail by former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy, CNN pulled the trigger Thursday on massive layoffs — to the tune of roughly 200 people — at the once proud network-turned-Resistance-hive-turned-ratings gadfly. CNN boss Mark Thompson announced the six-percent workforce cut would be accompanied by a massive…

Puck: ABC’s Stephanopoulos Gets New Contract Despite Trump Settlement

December 19th, 2024 10:50 AM

On Wednesday, Puck’s Dylan Byers revealed that – in a complete coincidence – ABC’s Good Morning America and This Week co-host George Stephanopoulos “Stephanopoulos has just signed a new, multiyear contract with the network, unrelated to the timing of” the network’s $15 million donation Saturday to President-Elect Trump’s future presidential library as settlement for…

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.