Axios - Fearing political retribution and strained by new business challenges, media companies that once covered President-elect Trump with skepticism — and in many cases, disdain — are reconsidering their approach, Axios' Sara Fischer and Dave Lawler write...
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, a longtime Democrat whose wife served as the ambassador to the Bahamas during the Obama administration, met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week, Axios confirmed. "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who railed against Trump for years, met with Trump in an hour-plus meeting at Mar-a-Lago last month, infuriating their loyal audience. Scarborough said the reaction showed "a massive disconnect ... between social media and the real world."
Amid a record media trust deficit, outlets once critical of Trump are now making overtures to the former and future president, and the Americans who voted for him. A week after Trump's victory, two executives from TelevisaUnivision, the parent of the largest U.S.-based Spanish-language broadcaster, flew to Mar-a-Lago so the president-elect could personally thank them for election support, The Wall Street Journal reported.
L.A. Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong vowed (on Fox News, no less) to balance out his editorial board with conservative voices. He also has discussed plans to add a digital "bias meter" for editorials and opinion columns.
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos (who, like Soon-Shiong, overruled his staff to kill a Harris endorsement) said at The New York Times' DealBook Summit that he's "actually very optimistic" about Trump's second term.
Compare that to the resistance media era that started in 2016, with outlets like The Washington Post garnering tough-on-Trump reputations (and thousands of subscriptions).This time around, national outlets — struggling to regain viewers and subscribers — are trying to signal they're no longer out for blood. More
CNN - The House Ethics Committee found evidence that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex or drugs on at least 20 occasions, including paying a 17-year-old girl for sex in 2017, according to a final draft of the panel’s report on the Florida Republican, obtained by CNN. The committee concluded in its bombshell document that Gaetz violated Florida state laws, including the state’s statutory rape law, as the GOP-led panel chose to take the rare step of releasing a report about a former member who resigned from Congress.
- The current outcry over would-be retiring judges changing their minds is yet another example of partisan gamesmanship. Here’s what really happened: A bipartisan bill creating 66 much needed new judgeships over a 10-year-period passed in the Democratic-controlled Senate in August, but, in what was an obvious attempt to see who would win the election in November, the Republican-controlled House took no action. Then, on Dec. 12, a month after Trump won, the House passed the bill.
The New York Times reported Thursday that “677 district court judges are the front line of the federal judiciary, handling most of the nearly 400,000 civil and criminal cases that pass through the system each year” and that the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts this year counted 81,617 civil cases that have been pending more than three years. That’s more than four times the number there were 20 years ago.
Despite the desperate need for new judgeships, Biden has said he’ll veto the bill that has now passed the House and Senate and thereby deny Trump the chance to appoint a slew of new judges who undoubtedly will be very conservative picks. If Biden were to sign the bill, then he’d be giving Trump the power to appoint an additional 22 judges in addition to filling current and expected vacancies, particularly on the powerful circuit courts of appeals, where Biden’s final four picks were denied a Senate vote.
The American Prospect - Elon Musk blew up a near-complete bipartisan budget deal with an
avalanche of tweets contending that it was too costly, luring Donald
Trump into demanding that Republicans kill it. But Musk’s real reason—a story that David Dayen broke in the Prospect—was
that the agreement included painstakingly negotiated limits on American
tech investment in China. Had that provision passed, it would have
been costly to Musk’s extensive Chinese Tesla operations and future AI
plans.
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