91 thoughts on “Inbox”

  1. A pause on Trump’s media ban

    Bill • October 9, 2026

    Two weeks ago, Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds. The media outlets took Trump to court and Judge Timothy J. Kelly federal judge granted the outlets a 14-day restraining order, allowing them to regain their White House press credentials.

    That order was set to expire Thursday.

    So there was another hearing — and an extension to the restraining order.

    The order is now extended until next Tuesday, at which time the judge could extend it for a longer period of time.
     
    Politico’s Irie Sentner: “In the hearing, Kelly appeared to be gravitating toward a more durable injunction over the course of potentially months of litigation.”

    For the moment though, a holding pattern as the outlets continue to argue that Trump is violating their First Amendment rights.

    In a recent interview with Time magazine, Trump was asked why he banned the outlets, and he said, “Well, it’s just bad story after bad story.”

    At Thursday’s hearing, an attorney for the banned outlets, said, “That interview really is the coup de grace.”

    We’ll know more next week, but the case appears to be headed for a media victory and a giant loss for Trump in his battle with the media.

     

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  2. Maddow

    Bill • October 8, 2026

    Jesse Rodriguez, MS NOW’s vice president of editorial and booking, tweeted Wednesday: “The Rachel Maddow Show was the #1 show in all of cable news at 9pm ET on Monday, rating higher than Fox News & CNN in total viewers and in the key demo.”

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  3. A bump for “60 Minutes”

    Bill • October 8, 2026

    A little bit of good news for CBS’s “60 Minutes.” The show drew its biggest audience of the new season this week.

    Sunday’s show, the third of the season, attracted 10.2 million viewers.

    That’s a significant jump from the first two episodes. The season premiere on Sept. 13 drew 7.94 million viewers, the lowest-rated premiere of the long-running show in recent memory.

    The second show of the season drew just 6.77 million viewers.

    A big help this week was a good nationally televised NFL game leading into “60 Minutes.” (The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Las Vegas Raiders in a tight game, 30-27.)

    CBS and Fox both aired late-window NFL games before the season premiere, splitting the potential “60 Minutes” lead-in audience. And CBS didn’t have the featured national game before its second show of the season.

    Still, following so-so ratings for the first two shows, the people at “60 Minutes” surely breathed a sigh of relief after cracking 10 million viewers last weekend.

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  6. Kaitlan in the Krosshairs

    Bill • October 6, 2026

    President Trump spent Saturday evening near Dayton, Ohio. 

    The usual Trump fare — bragging about the job he thinks he is doing, blasting Democrats and lashing out at the media.

    At one point, Trump told Ohio voters to support Republicans in high-profile races in the state, adding, “If you do that, we’re going to win, and we’re going to win big, and we’re going to shove it up their ass.”
    — CNBC

    In front of a fired-up crowd, Trump went after one of his favorite targets: CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.

    Trump pointed at the press covering the event and said, “Our nation is doing better now than ever before, and the fake news like CNN sitting right there, the fake news doesn’t want to write about it.”

    The crowd booed and then broke into a “F**k CNN” chant.

    Then Trump went after Collins, saying, “She’s such an unhappy person, you know? A young, nice person, but she never, never smiles. She’s a very unhappy person.”

    The crowd continued to boo.

    How dangerous it is to single out a specific reporter in the midst of a crowd and then rile up that crowd to the point where people are angrily booing and chanting?

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    1. Better Behavior

      Jason Remington • October 6, 2026

      Speaking to the press days ago, I thought Vance and Collins got along respectfully when Collins asked Vance about the widow of Airman Alex Klinner, who was killed in a plane crash in western Iraq. If only she didn’t tee off Trump the way she does. She is such a devious little scamp.

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  7. Shift @ All Things Considered

    Jason Remington • October 6, 2026

    Mary Louise Kelly is stepping down as a host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” after 25 years at the network, and is also leaving the national security podcast “Sources & Methods.”

    She will stay at NPR and resume contributing interviews after a short break. Investigations correspondent Sacha Pfeiffer will serve as acting host of “All Things Considered.”

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  8. The TV pool

    Bill • October 6, 2026

    The White House has been barring CNN from the TV pool, but that might be changing today. Today is CNN’s turn to handle the TV pool and, as of Monday, the White House was listing CNN as the TV pool representative.

    The Guardian’s Jeremy Barr tweeted, “Per a source, I’m told there is reason to believe that the White House might actually allow CNN to do its pool duty tomorrow, considering Air Force One is not involved… (just a trip to Baltimore).”

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    1. Punchline

      Jason Remington • October 6, 2026

      In a Truth Social post he said he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico “effective immediately” because of their “constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS,” and that outlets “shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES” about him, the administration, or the country.

      Can a network call themselves an actual NEWS organization when they report fake news? It’s like THE ONION, without the humor.

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  9. Banning CNN

    Bill • October 5, 2026

    The Trump administration continues to ban CNN from the TV pool. CNN is next scheduled to provide the TV pool — which also includes ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC — on Tuesday.

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  10. Goldgerg & Greenstein-- No Surprise

    Jason Remington • October 5, 2026

    Skydance named leaders for its film, TV, and streaming businesses ahead of the expected close of its roughly $111 billion Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery combination, which will operate under the Skydance name.

    Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein will co-chair Skydance Motion Picture Group. Warner Bros. film heads Pamela Abdy and Michael De Luca are not joining; James Gunn and Peter Safran remain co-chairs of DC Studios. George Cheeks will co-chair Skydance TV, and Casey Bloys will co-chair Skydance DTC, adding Paramount+ and Pluto TV to HBO and Max. JB Perrette will be co-chair and chief business officer for TV and streaming.

    They report to CEO David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz. Ellison will handle strategy and creative direction; Kreiz will manage day-to-day integration. Mark Thompson continues at CNN, and Bari Weiss will run CBS News.

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