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How Fox News lets the Trump family off the hook for profiting off the presidency

By Aaron Rupar

What happened to the formerly fearsome right-wing media troll?

By Peter Kafka

Why New York Times reporters rallied around Breitbart following an O’Rourke campaign event

By Aaron Rupar

Fox & Friends wants you to believe Trump would have G7 at Doral even if he didn’t own it

By Aaron Rupar

Bret Stephens’s “bedbug” meltdown, explained

By Aaron Rupar

The viral video of Chris Cuomo going berserk over being called “Fredo,” explained

By Aaron Rupar

CNN’s Chris Cuomo said “Fredo” is like “the n-word” for Italians. It’s … not.

By Alissa Wilkinson

The CBS and Viacom merger, explained

By Peter Kafka

The media amplifies Trump’s racism. Should it stop?

By Ezra Klein

“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson

By Eric Johnson

The T-Mobile + Sprint deal is good for you if you like paying more for your wireless plan

By Peter Kafka

Trump’s latest Hannity interview shows how Fox News’s Russia coverage is disconnected from reality

By Aaron Rupar

Why 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang doesn’t want to break up Google

By Eric Johnson

Netflix thought it would have 5 million new subscribers this quarter. Instead it added 2.7 million.

By Peter Kafka

The bogus White House social media summit is basically a big troll

By Peter Kafka

One day encapsulated everything that’s wrong with Fox News

By Aaron Rupar

Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s first novel is about divorce in the age of Tinder

By Eric Johnson

Journalist Carole Cadwalladr has a question for tech workers: Are you okay with your bosses enabling “techno-fascism”?

By Eric Johnson

Trump’s unhinged Fox Business interview illustrates how Fox News normalizes Trump

By Aaron Rupar

Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka

Dan Rather’s single biggest secret for interviewing powerful people

By Emily Todd VanDerWerff

Twitter’s co-founder yearns for the time when bloggers couldn’t get instant feedback

By Shirin Ghaffary

Activists see NBC’s Democratic debate moderators as a win for representation

By Li Zhou

Running the New York Times is just one thing A.G. Sulzberger is working on

By Peter Kafka

Russia and China are waging a “shadow war” against the US, and the battlefields will be AI and space, CNN’s Jim Sciutto says

By Eric Johnson

Why Amazon is going to be one of the winners of the streaming video wars

By Eric Johnson

Watch Laura Ingraham tell her audience to disbelieve something Trump just told her

By Aaron Rupar

Even worse than Jeffrey Goldberg’s sexist quote was his gaslighting of a journalist

By Laura McGann

David French vs. Sohrab Ahmari and the battle dividing conservatives, explained

By Jane Coaston

Meet the man with an impossible job: cleaning up YouTube

By Peter Kafka

Former US Attorney Preet Bharara says good journalism may have undermined the Mueller report

By Eric Johnson

Hulu CEO Randy Freer explains why Hulu never promoted its ad-free version

By Eric Johnson

Netflix has made a rare acquisition, to help it make more kids’ stuff

By Peter Kafka

Disney put more than $400 million into Vice Media. Now it says that investment is worthless.

By Peter Kafka

Disney+ will not be a “Netflix killer” because at this point, nothing can kill Netflix

By Eric Johnson

Amazon wants to pay the New York Times and BuzzFeed to expand so it can reach more shoppers outside the US

By Peter Kafka

Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen’s advice to startup founders and investors: Don’t lie to each other

By Eric Johnson

YouTube says it’s still trying to fix itself. But it’s not going to stop selling itself to advertisers.

By Peter Kafka

The fight for the bundle is the war for the future of TV

By Peter Kafka

Coverage of Trump’s latest rally shows how major media outlets normalize his worst excesses

By Aaron Rupar