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Bari Minutes

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Bari Weiss’s reign of errors continues at CBS News. Besides pulling a 60 Minutes segment on CECOT (That was broadcast in free countries anyway), she’s installed herself as the on-camera host for a series of bizarre town halls with other unphotogenic conservatives, including JD Vance, Erika Kirk, and the Toilet Ghoulie from the VHS box art for the movie “Ghoulies.” Nobody’s watching, and more importantly, advertisers aren’t buying.

As for what’s going on at the rest of David Ellison’s CBS/Paramount/Skydance, I don’t know. Kathy Bates is Matlock now? I don’t have grandparents, so there’s no one to clue me into what’s going on over there besides football games. Go Pats, I guess!

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Coming Soon to CBS

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CBS/Paramount started cleaning house to meet our demented, rapist dictator’s demands and got their merger with Skydance approved. Last week they announced the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, despite it being at the top of the big three networks’ late night shows. There’s still a year left of the show, which seems kinda stupid, but they were trying to meet the demands of the world’s most powerful stupid person.

I’m not a retired Boomer, so I’m not in the target demo for most of CBS’s offerings. I am however, a fan of Star Trek, and currently Strange New Worlds, which spawned as a solution to Discovery’s own convoluted “Oops! All Mirror Universe/Time Travel” problems. I hope they don’t do a Mirror Universe episode this season, or another musical one for that matter.

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Summer Stinkers

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I’ve been too busy to see any new movies this year. I’ll definitely check out Sinners when it hits VOD and I get our TV set up at a new apartment. Everything else looks like an airplane watch, and I ain’t going on one of those any time soon, unless Nathan Fielder is the pilot.

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Unfocused Groups

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Ever since the 2016 election, the New York Times has been doing Trump Voter Safaris for their ostensibly liberal audience to either gawk at or empathize with. They are a sideshow from the people with real power. And now they’re being moderated by Frank Luntz, which is especially gross for any of us old enough to remember his role in shaping Republican messaging in the early aughts.

Scrutinizing Trump’s supporters individually is a waste of time while authoritarianism runs amok and time runs out to stop it. But those daffy bastards sure are fun to goof on online.

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White House Approved Programming

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Paramount needs federal approval for a merger, so they’re bending over backwards to appease the administration (it won’t work, they’ll just demand more obedience) by neutering CBS’s autonomy in its news coverage. Other corporate media giants have done the same to pre-emptively appease an administration that barely squeaked out a win and is already underwater in every conceivable poll.

That might work for some industries, but the media requires appealing to audiences bigger than one demented individual in the White House.

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2025 Corporate Media Style Guide

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After less than a week of insane (and illegal, if laws were still real) executive orders, the mainstream media has rolled over and showed its belly to the second Trump administration. The publishers and owners signaled this move was coming throughout the election, but to see them all become state media apparatuses overnight was jarring.

When these policies were first introduced to the public with coverage of Project 2025, the public recoiled, because it’s unpopular Nazi shit. The media gave Trump a boost by letting him claim he disavowed it, but now that he’s practically signing copies with each executive order, they’re desperately trying to spin their audiences into favoring it or pretending it’s not happening.

Unfortunately, mainstream media’s not the only one doing it. Democratic leadership seems to be using this same playbook instead of acting anything like an opposition party.

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Winter Reading Pile

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I hope your holidays were relaxing enough to get you rested for the long slog through the rest of winter and the years to come. I’m still avoiding drawing you-know-who to pace myself for what’s coming, but even with my limited news consumption over the holidays, I’m already suffering from Elon/Trump burnout.

I’m not going to tune out of the news like many people have wisely done since the election, and I’m sure I’ll be drawing those shitheads a lot, but I can’t do another four years of “GET A LOAD OF THIS BOZO!” every week. It obviously had no effect the last time I did it, so why subject myself to that again?

That’s the long way of saying I want to try different approaches this time around. I’m not yet sure what that’ll look like, but let’s find out!

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Schmaltzmark Channel Holiday Specials

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The late Thanksgiving has made this holiday season shorter than usual (if you’re not a freak who puts the tree up the day after Halloween), so here are some holiday goofs before I have to really start thinking about next year.

I’ve never watched one of the Hallmark Channel’s Christmas schlockfests, but Netflix put out something called Hot Frosty where a sexy snow sculpture comes to life (?) and I figure I should practice writing that kind of stuff for when editorial cartoonists make it to the next FBI director’s most wanted list.

Now to enjoy one sip of the eggnog I bought then immediately remember why it’s not a regular staple in our fridge.

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