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Pretty early on in the July 24th episode of Flagrant, hosted by Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, Singh says something I believe 100 percent: “I read nothing ever.” He was responding to special guest Ezra Klein’s question, “Did you guys read the FBI/DOJ memo?” Klein, the co-author of Abundance, was really assuming too much of both Schulz and Singh, whose entire political worldview depends on not being too well-read on any subject. It’s part of the duo’s every man appeal: You don’t have to know a lot to have a lot of decisive opinions.

The hosts’ literary proclivities are relevant because the first 20 or so-minutes of the show are spent discussing the Epstein files and Trump’s probable inclusion in those incriminating documents. Because Schulz and Singh are simplistic, chauvinistic reactionaries with more cultural influence than sense, Klein is tasked with breaking down the particulars of...

One of the writers of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book Abundance is betting that by leaving legacy media, he can keep the conversation going around the book, which has become a focal point of political discourse since its release in March.

Derek Thompson, a staff writer for The Atlantic, says that he is leaving the publication after 17 years to launch a Substack, where he hopes to embrace the freedom of independence to explore the topic of abundance, as well as the rapidly changing worlds of science, technology and culture.

“The somewhat simplistic, but more or less true, buzzy take on what’s happening to me is: I co-wrote this book with Ezra Klein. We sort of expected that it would be a fairly popular, but wonky take on the future of liberalism and the Democratic Party, and it became this discourse eating machine,” Thompson tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview.

Each week, we handpick a selection of stories to give you a snapshot of trends, updates, business moves, and more from around the creator industry. This week, one creator gets some well-deserved recognition, another becomes a government target, and a third has some sound advice for brands.

Creator commotion

Michelle Khare gets Challenge Accepted into the Emmys. The creator’s Streamy-winning show will be on the ballot in the outstanding hosted nonfiction series category at the next Primetime Emmy Awards. Getting on the ballot is one thing — some of Khare’s contemporaries may want to remind her that actually earning Emmy nominations and wins is a whole different beast.

Hasan Piker was detained at O’Hare airport. The left-wing streamer was held by border agents (despite being a U.S. citizen enrolled in Global Entry) and was asked about topics like President Trump and Hamas. In Piker’s own words:...

The Golden Globes just announced a best podcast category for its 2026 awards and this is either A) a sign of Hollywood’s waning cultural influence, B) a sign of podcasting’s rising popularity, C) a bit of both, or D) no big deal as this is still, you know, only the Golden Globes we’re talking about (kidding — we respect and adore the Globes and all other Pmc-owned events!).

In truth, adding a podcast category to the Globes is a savvy way to boost viewer interest and expand promotion of the telecast to a thriving medium. It follows ratings resurgence for the awards show in January, as well as acclaim for first-time host Nikki Glaser, who will return next year.

The new category, however, does raise some questions.

Podcasts are, by their nature, different animals than movies and TV shows, ranging in scope from a lone individual in a garage to powerful media enterprises.

Cory Booker had been railing against Donald Trump’s agenda from the floor of the Senate for three hours when his feet started to go numb. On the lectern he had his cellphone out (against Senate rules), with his family group chat pulled up. Every now and then it pinged with a message of encouragement, or a photo of an absurdly shredded bald dude — the motivational speaker, ultramarathoner, and former Navy Seal David Goggins — instructing him to “Stay Hard.”

Booker’s family read Goggins’ book together back in 2021, his cousin Pam tells me.

It looks like The View has quietly slipped into a short hiatus, and as usual, fans are buzzing with questions. Whispers about the future of key co-hosts—including the ever-iconic Whoopi Goldberg—are growing louder, especially as contract renewal details remain under wraps.

But while the cameras may be off for now, the fans aren’t exactly left in the dark. Dedicated viewers have figured out how to stay a step ahead, even scoring chances to see their favorite personalities live.

What’s Happening Behind the Scenes?

Whoopi Goldberg, once known primarily for her award-winning acting and stand-up career, has worn the hat of co-host on The View since 2007. Over the years, both she and fellow co-host Joy Behar have occasionally stepped back from filming.

That’s not particularly unusual—they’re both on a flexible four-day work week. But fans did notice something rare recently: Goldberg taped an episode on a Friday,...

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Last week, Abundance co-author Ezra Klein went viral on social media. In a widely shared video clip from Jon Stewart’s podcast, Klein described the maddeningly bureaucratic process for deploying rural broadband funding under the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure bill — a procedure so cumbersome that barely any of the entities seeking these grants have even finished the application process, years after the bill’s passage.

“It’s why you’d be a good candidate, you play this game well,” Bill Maher told Gavin Newsom tonight on HBO with the savvy California Governor the latest 2028 contender to appear on Real Time this year. “Your future is not in California, your future is in Iowa,” Maher added later, asking Newsom to “dispense with the bullsh*t” and admit if he is running for President or not.

“We need someone who’s going to be the champion. Are you going to do it or not?”

“I can’t stand the bullshit as well, and I mean that,” the two-term Democrat replied with apparent candor before pivoting. “So, look, but it’s not my purpose or passion. It’s not my meaning. It’s not everything,” Newsom proclaimed.

Newsom then pivoted again to make asking the question a case of missing the point.

“I deeply respect that the question,...

Real Time With Bill Maher continues Friday, March 21 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Et/7:00-8:00 p.m. Pt) on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. Allowing Maher to offer his unique perspective on contemporary issues, the show continues with its opening monologue, one-on-one interviews with notable guests, roundtable discussions with panelists, and its signature “New Rules.” This week features a one-on-one interview with comedian, actor, producer, and co-host of the podcast “Fly on the Wall” with David Spade, Dana Carvey. This week’s panel discussion includes Ezra Klein, host of “The Ezra Klein Show” podcast and co-author of the new book “Abundance”; and Andrew Sullivan, writer of “The Weekly Dish” newsletter on Substack and ... Read more...

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert left fans in the dark to start the week. But what should they expect to see on CBS tonight?

There was a noticeable hole in the late-night TV lineup to start the week. Stephen Colbert and his crew were absent, leaving the Late Show audience to look elsewhere for reaction to what transpired over the weekend.

Unfortunately, that trend will continue on Tuesday night. There will not be a new episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight.

Instead, CBS will reair the February 17 episode. Tune in to revisit Colbert's conversation with fellow late-night TV host and Daily Show alum John Oliver. The War and the Treaty served as the musical guest that night.

What to watch instead of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight

Once again, late-night TV audiences will have to channel surf to find an alternative. The good news...

On Tuesday March 11 2025, CBS broadcasts The Late Show With Stephen Colbert!

Nathan Lane; Ezra Klein Season 10 Episode 89 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” promises an exciting blend of entertainment and insightful conversation. Titled “Nathan Lane; Ezra Klein,” this episode features two notable guests: actor Nathan Lane and journalist Ezra Klein. Fans of the show can look forward to an engaging evening filled with laughter and thoughtful discussions.

Nathan Lane, known for his dynamic performances in both theater and film, is set to share stories from his impressive career. His charisma and humor are sure to entertain the audience. Lane has a unique ability to connect with viewers, making his appearances memorable. Whether discussing his latest projects or reflecting on his time in the industry, Lane’s presence is always a highlight.

Ezra Klein, a respected journalist and co-founder of Vox, will bring a different perspective to the show.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert rolls into Monday with about a week's worth of topics to discuss. So what should late-night TV fans expect to see on CBS tonight?

President Donald Trump's tariffs have thrown the stock market into disarray. Meanwhile, his administration continues to work with Elon Musk to cut jobs and shrink the federal government's size. These policies and more have been met with hefty criticism, especially from Stephen Colbert.

Expect to hear more of the same from the comedian on CBS Monday night. There will be a brand new episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight.

Colbert's monologue will likely take its fair share of shots at how Trump's economic plan and trade wars are shaping up so far. He could also weigh in on Canada's new prime minister and what that means for relations between the U.S. and its northern neighbor.

Keri Russell, the star of “The Diplomat,” is on her fourth glass of wine; and Debora Cahn, the show’s creator, is on her third. There are cold french fries strewn across the table, empty glasses everywhere, and there’s ice — so much ice.

It’s only a few weeks before the second season of “The Diplomat” drops on Netflix on Halloween — five days before the presidential election — and Russell and Cahn, sitting in an old Upper West Side French bistro on a late afternoon, suddenly remember the time they met Kamala Harris at a White House Correspondents’ Dinner last April, four months before Harris became the Democratic presidential candidate.

Russell, 48, starts to squeal thinking about that night, her hands fluttering to her face in comic excitement, and Cahn says, “Somebody sent a photo of us and Biden and Jill, and I just love that we have it, but I was like,...

VH1 has renewed its hit reality series franchise “Basketball Wives,” and ready to hit the court are several newcomers, including internet personality Brittany Renner.

Season 11 of “Basketball Wives” is on its way, and fans can get rest easy, as their fan favorites Jennifer Williams, Jackie Christie and Brooke Bailey are all heading back to the television screen the show’s renewal. Who also will be making a comeback is “Basketball Wives” original Evelyn Lozada, who left the show twice before. Executive producer Shaunie Henderson will make a guest appearance during the season.

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And along with that surprise, the show will be introducing three new players to its roster: Renner, Jac’Eil Duckworth, Vanessa Rider and Clayanna Warthen.

In this new season, “Basketball Wives” will feature the sisterhood, growth and adversity of old and new cast members,...

Talent agency WME is establishing a foothold inside the Beltway.

The Beverly Hills-based representation giant has acquired the literary agency Ross Yoon, the company said on Friday. Led by Gail Ross and Howard Yoon, the agency focuses on the non-fiction space, and has a roster of author clients including Time journalist Molly Ball, Mother Jones’ D.C. chief David Corn, New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, Politico Playbook writer Ryan Lizza, Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty, Vanity Fair correspondent Gabriel Sherman and many others.

As part of the deal — financial terms weren’t disclosed — Ross and Yoon will join WME as partners and bring agent Ethan Bassoff and coordinator Dara Kaye with them. A media lawyer in addition to founding the literary agency, Ross is also a partner at law firm Trister, Ross, Schadler & Gold in D.C. Yoon, a former adjunct professor at Georgetown University as well as author and book consultant,...

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On Sept. 15, Propper Daley’s second A Day of Unreasonable Conversation gathering will return to Los Angeles, after being canceled in both 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The invite-only event — produced in collaboration with social impact and culture change agency Invisible Hand — will take place at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and will feature a day full of programming designed to unite television creators (writers, producers, executives) with cultural changemakers to participate in conversations. Conversations will center on intellectual humility, mental health, social and economic division, reproductive rights, climate change, responsible tech, and more. These discussions, coupled with a networking reception to follow, are intended to positively influence future television storylines and help maintain authenticity in narratives seen on screen.

“Now more than ever, television creators are telling the stories that shape our culture and influence what we feel,...

Excerpted from Hate Inc., which can be found in serial form at Taibbi.substack.com.

Sixteen years ago this week, the United States invaded Iraq. We went in on an unconvincing excuse, articulated by George W. Bush in a speech days before invasion:

“Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. This regime has already used weapons of mass destruction against Iraq’s neighbors and against Iraq’s people.”

To the...

Former Fox News executive Bill Shine’s White House appointment by President Trump has drawn ire across social media. Many Twitter users have been quick to point out that he resigned as co-president of Fox News in 2017 due to his close relationship with Roger Ailes and accusations that he attempted to cover up Ailes’ alleged sexual harassment allegations.

Gretchen Carlson, who filed the first sexual harassment lawsuit almost exactly two years ago, pointed out the irony in a tweet, saying: “This …. on the 2 year anniversary eve of filing my harassment lawsuit; giving women a voice, letting them know you can be believed, launching a national movement to stand up and speak up and say enough is enough. Life… works in mysterious ways. #BeFierce”

This …. on the 2 year anniversary eve of filing my harassment lawsuit; giving women a voice, letting them know you can be believed, launching a national movement to...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg responded to criticism from Tim Cook, saying the Apple chief’s analysis of his business was “glib” and untruthful. Last week, Cook blasted Facebook over its business model which monetized its customers at the expense of their privacy. “You know, I find that argument, that if you’re not paying, that somehow we can’t care about you to be extremely glib. And not at all aligned with the truth,” Zuckerberg told Vox Media founder Ezra Klein in an interview released Monday. “The reality here is that if you wanna build a service that helps connect everyone in the world,...

Twitter was divided on Thursday as people voiced their approval — or disappointment — over Sen. Al Franken’s resignation amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.

Much like Franken himself did in his emotional Senate-floor speech, many tweeters pointed out the irony that the Minnesota Democrat was forced to resign over his alleged actions while other politicians who have been accused of sexual misconduct — including President Donald Trump and embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore — have not faced consequences. (Trump and Moore have denied the allegations against them.)

Actress Ellen Barkin showed support for Franken while decrying Democrats for their part in his resignation,...

"You have thrown our budget a little out of whack, because we've spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico and that's fine," Pres. Trump says pic.twitter.com/9V4caKaG80

— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 3, 2017

President Donald Trump has arrived in Puerto Rico for the first time since Hurricane Maria devastated the island last month, and is already causing controversy.

During a meeting with local and federal leadership on Tuesday, Trump was introducing his Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney when he commented, “I hate to tell you Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack,...

Hillary Clinton continued to express her frustration with the media coverage of the 2016 election in an interview with Vox's Ezra Klein.

Several leading journalists across a range of genres have received warning from Google that state-sponsored hackers are attempting to steal their Gmail passwords and gain access to their email, according to Politico. Among those cautioned were CNN senior media reporter Brian Stelter, GQ special contributor Keith Olbermann, Julia Ioffe of The Atlantic, Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine and Ezra Klein, the founder of Vox, who says he’s been receiving the warning as recently as in the last few days. In several of their cases, the alerts started coming a few weeks after the November election and appear as a bright.

Facebook’s recent algorithmic shifts dropped a big bomb on the bottom lines of many publishers with a newly emphasized “Friends and Family First” approach. The resulting handwringing, however, missed a broader question: What should publishers be doing, on Facebook and everywhere else, to build sustainable businesses for the long-term?

It’s increasingly possible, perhaps even obvious by now, that we’re doing this all wrong. To make matters worse, we’re almost certainly feeding into our readers’ problematic and compulsive behaviors.

Publishers have been shoveling content into the Internet maw at increasing rates, trying to generate enough cash to keep going. But they face an impossible conundrum. Even as they create more content to bring in more ad dollars, all that content devalues the ad rates the stories can attract. More creates less, in a vicious cycle.

Yes, there are some substantial new publishers (Vox, BuzzFeed, Vice) and some...

Updated, 2:27 p.m. Pt, April 13th In a piece titled “How Vox Aggregates,” Editor-in-Chief Ezra Klein apologized to Silver. “Our policy, to our staff, is simple: any time we use work created by someone else, we need clear attribution to the original author and a link back to the source,” he wrote. “When appropriate, we should do more than that: we should add to the conversation with new facts, ideas, or reporting.” Klein went on to point out that the story Silver was upset about actually did reference FiveThirtyEight, but didn’t link. The attribution there was clear. The first line reads,...

Vox Media, the owner of seven editorial sites, expanded its company with Vox Entertainment — a new arm geared toward video and talent partnerships — and signed with Wme to create TV and film productions. The media company started in 2003 as SportsBlogs Inc, expanding in 2011 with the tech-site “The Verge.” It’s since added to its portfolio with gaming site Polygon; acquiring the Curbed Network; food website “Eater”; real estate website “Curbed,” and most recently, Vox.com; an explanatory journalism site ran by former Washington Post “Wonkblog” columnist Ezra Klein. In November, the company raised $47 million in venture capital, helping...

President Obama’s media strategy is apparently shifting to digital, as Vox.com published its two-part interview Monday. Obama first spoke with editor-in-chief Ezra Klein about the decades long expansion of income inequality. Also Read: Ezra Klein’s Vox Launches With ‘Game of Thrones’ Explainer and Wikipedia-esque ‘Card Stacks’ “Today what you have is quarterly earnings reports, you have compensation levels for CEOs that are tied directly to those quarterly earnings, you’ve got international capital that is demanding short term profits…” the president said, concluding that the old distribution model—decent wages, healthcare, defined pension plans—are being eliminated,...

Watchup, a free video news app that allows users to cobble together their own personalized newscasts from local, national and international sources, partnered with Fusion, The Verge, Vox.com and Al Jazeera’s Aj+ Tuesday, TheWrap has learned exclusively.

The four news outlets join a select group of featured partners on Watchup, and will be among the first seen when users begin curating their own newscasts. Once logged in to the app, users can sift through these and 100 other news sources to refine their own feeds, choosing the ones they’d like for their featured list, which ultimately becomes a newscast.

Rachel Maddow made a rare daytime appearance on MSNBC Wednesday, sitting down with Ezra Klein, who was filling in for Alex Wagner, to talk about the possibility of a Congressional vote to authorize airstrikes against Isis in Syria. Referring a report from The Hill quoting unnamed aides on the Left who don't want Congress to vote on the issue, Maddow diagnosed a severe case of "Democratic wuss-itude."...

A new explainer blog is entering the crowded fray to compete with the other infographic upstarts. The Upshot, a data-driven site from the New York Times, launched on Tuesday and vows to help readers crunch the numbers in many topical political and economic news stories. Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt is spearheading the project, the Times’ first shot across the bow at replacing Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight blog, which was a big success during the 2012 presidential election before moving to Espn. The Upshot will also compete against Ezra Klein's flashcard-obsessed Vox.com, which debuted earlier this month. “You have no shortage of excellent.

Is there a better way to launch a news site than have a “Game of Thrones” explainer the night of the HBO season premiere? Ezra Klein's new web venture officially set sail on Sunday with a shiny, unique user interface and an interesting system for getting readers to understand the news through “card stacks” that define confusing wonky news concepts in layman's terms — including “Everything you need to know to start watching Game of Thrones today.” These Highlighter-yellow cards provide Wikipedia-esque “crucial context alongside new information” and serve essentially as Vox's killer app that differentiates itself from the rest.

Here is last week’s caption pic winner. This week’s caption pic is at the bottom of the page.

Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is …

“And I learned this one on my trip to Vegas after I lost that billiards game”

Thanks to dostka for this week’s winning caption!

Weekend Birthdays! Kellan Lutz (above) is 29, Jamie Bell is 28, Kevin Williamson is 49, and Donal Og Cusack is 37.

Op-ed: The Lasting Impact of Out TV Teens on Lgbt Youth

Game Developers Conference Tackles Lgbt Representation in Video Games. Gimme more Kaidan!

Sarah Palin Is Starting Her Very Own Web Channel

Ricky Martin on a balcony in his boxers.

Ezra Klein, I’m Calling Bullsh*t on Your Defense of Hiring Brandon Ambrosino, and Here’s Why

Ezra tries again.

Out rapper Le1f made his network debut last night, performing “Wut” on David Letterman

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Which Noel do you prefer?

Birthday shoutouts go to Noel Fisher (above), who is 30, Dana Delany is 58, and Emile Hirsch is 29.

TV Line has a behind-the-scenes look at nest week’s 100th episode of Glee.

A lot has been written over the decades about murder victim Kitty Genovese and how accurate the “bystander effect” was, but I had no idea that Kitty was a lesbian, and on her way home to her partner when she was attacked.

Fox Affiliate Cut A Reference To Evolution From Neil deGrasse Tyson‘s Cosmos

Ezra Klein defends his hiring of Brandon Ambrosino. “I don’t want to pretend that I have the context and the background to perfectly or authoritatively judge this debate,” Klein said. “But when I read his pieces, I didn’t come away with the impression that he holds an iota of homophobia.” Oh Ezra, you are officially off my long...

Birthday shoutouts go to Aaron Eckhart (above), who is 46, James Taylor is 66, Ron Jeremy is 61, and Al Jarreau is 74.

Pretty Woman is coming to the Broadway stage.

Meet Brandon Ambrosino, Homophobes’ Favorite Gay Writer And Vox’s Newest Hire. Yes, we’re well aware of this guy. Really, Ezra Klein?

How the National Organization for Marriage Was Banished to the Basement at Cpac 2014

Anti-Gay Barilla Doesn’t Mind Profiting Off Gay-Friendly City

Jim Halterman talks to Stephen Amell about the recent Sara and Nyssa development on Arrow, and what the reaction would have been if it was two male characters.

Pastor Says Frozen is a Satanic Attempt To Make Kids Gay. Yeah … and?

Kevin Bacon explains the 80′s to Millennials.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the Neil Patrick Harris photoshoot for Out

Macklemore has a message: Its Time That Us Men Started Respecting To The Basin That Our Queens Sit On!

Ezra Klein announced Sunday he was launching a new news website with the D.C.-based internet media company Vox Media. Klein, who rose to fame with his popular and influential Wonkblog at the Washington Post, made the big switch after weeks of speculation of where the wunderkind writer would wind up next. Also Read: Ezra Klein Out at The Washington Post, Starting ‘His Own News Organization’ “Early last year, Melissa Bell, Matt Yglesias and I began wrestling with a question that had bugged all of us for a long time: why hadn’t the Internet made the news better...

On Tuesday, National Journal Editorial Director Ron Fournier published a column examining the similarities between the first year of President Barack Obama’s second term and that of former President George W. Bush. He observed that the parallels are eerie and Obama runs the risk of leaving office with a dubious record of achievements. On Tuesday, Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein dismissed Fournier’s analysis as overly focused on intra-Washington politics and lacking the perspective that the average American applies to presidencies.

The weeks since the rollout of Obamacare have seen a level of media rodent-fornication worthy of a midnight screening of Willard in a dumpster, but most of that has been die to some rather transparent motives and deficiencies in the mainstream media. Less obvious, though, is the reason behind the egregious rodential sexcapades of Washington Post scribe and MSNBC contributor Ezra Klein, whose appearance on Thursday night's The Last Word was a veritable clinic in misleading and misinforming on Obamacare.

This Friday sees Real Time with Bill Maher continue its 11th season Friday, Nov.. 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live Et/tape-delayed Pt), with a replay at 11:00 p.m., exclusively on HBO. This gives Maher a unique platform to cover contemporary issues with an opening monologue, roundtable discussions with panelists, and interviews with in-studio and satellite guests. Reporter Radley Balko is the top-of-show interview guest. Actor Casey Affleck is the mid-show interview guest. The roundtable guests are tax-reform advocate Mattie Duppler, journalist Ezra Klein and commentator Reihan Salam. Bill Maher has been a favorite of subscribers since his first special on the network in 1989, starring in nine solo specials, including the hour-long presentations “Bill Maher…But I’m Not Wrong,” “The Decider” and...

A roiling blood feud between Salon's Joan Walsh and The Washington Post's Ezra Klein came to a bone-crunching head Wednesday night, as All In host Chris Hayes mediated an epic rhetorical steel cage match between the duo. The brouhaha culminated in Walsh telling Klein "You're a wonderful reporter. I read you every day. I probably read close to every word you write." Sh*t just got real.

The lack of interest in or support for new gun laws in the wake of the latest mass shooting may be taking a toll on the “gun safety advocates” populating MSNBC’s Now panel desk. On Wednesday, Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein permitted himself a moment to fantasize about a public which embraces gun control legislation and votes pro-Second Amendment lawmakers out of office. Then, Klein imagined, a “reverse of 1994” would end the National Rifle Association’s influence in Congress forever.

Ezra Klein apparently picked the wrong day to be absent from the Washington Post offices. In a major deal announced this afternoon, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos purchased the Post for $250 million. Before the news broke, New York Times media columnist Brian Stelter reported that the Post's staff had been called into an emergency meeting, which columnist Klein apparently missed because after the announcement went public, he tweeted this...

Remember JournoList? Ezra Klein's email listserv of liberal-leaning journalists who thought everything they said was off the record until 2010, when Dave Weigel was caught saying mean things about Matt Drudge on it, lost his job at the Washington Post, and then Klein shut the whole thing down? Well, it's back! Gawker got its hands on 300 pages' worth of the JournoList archives, and threw them up on its site with a "have at it," seemingly spending more time on the lead art (a collage of photos of the various journalists on...

It's a peek at what could have been when The Office goes to "The Farm".

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I'm just thrilled at the news that Jonathan Del Arco has been promoted to a series regular for the second season of Major Crimes. Dr. Morales has been way too much fun for the little screen time he's gotten, so I've been hoping this would happen.

Last night, Ed Schultz announced that his show is moving to a two-hour weekend time slot next month, which opens up a major prime time slot on the news channel. If I'm reading the New York Times' item correctly, the new prime time host could be announced later this morning, with Chris Hayes, Ezra Klein and Joy Reid mentioned as front runners. That might explain why Klein has been making so many guest-hosting appearances lately.

Sex and the City alum Kristin Davis has joined the cast of CBS' Bad Teacher adaptation,...

The Ed Show is exiting MSNBC’s primetime for weekends, host Ed Schultz announced tonight. “And in the big finish tonight, a big personal and professional announcement. MSNBC will be expanding its weekend programming and this opens a big opportunity for “The Ed Show” and my brand. I will be leaving this time slot at 8 pm Et and moving to Saturday and Sunday from 5 to 7 Pm,” Schultz said at the end of the show this evening. The change to weekends will happen in April. “I’m thrilled for Ed and happy to be expanding our weekend programming. It’s an exciting time for MSNBC and I’m looking forward to having Ed’s powerful voice on our network for a long time,” said Phil Griffin, President of MSNBC in a statement Wednesday. The number two rated cable network says it will likely announce a replacement for the strident Schultz on Thursday.

I may be paraphrasing a bit, but on Thursday morning's Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor and Washington Post über-wonk Ezra Klein was asked to give his read on the chances for new progress on effective gun regulation in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, and served up a bucket of ice-cold water. He's not the only pessimist on gun regulation, but hearing a well-respected, plugged-in liberal like Ezra Klein say that even a weak assault weapons ban will be a "very large lift" is (a little bit) like hearing Walter Cronkite say that the Vietnam War was unwinnable.

This Sunday, New York Times media correspondent Brian Stelter reported that change may be in the air at MSNBC, with Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein possibly replacing Ed Schultz during the network's 8 p.m. time slot. The report was (sort of) denied by MSNBC brass, but on his radio show yesterday afternoon, Schultz took to rant against Stelter for printing any such possibilities without contacting him for his own opinion.

By Rachel Bennett

Television Editor & Columnist

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Election Day is finally here!

We’ve been bombarded with political ad after political ad (to the point that some of us burst into tears at the mention of President Barack Obama or Gov. Mitt Romney), but one of the most divisive presidential elections in U.S. history is almost over.

After you cast your ballot, you will most likely turn on the TV to watch the returns this evening. With more channels than ever, you will have to make one more choice before the clock strikes midnight: Which election coverage to watch.

Just as you should be informed about your presidential nominees, you should be informed about your election night coverage options. Check out the candidates below:

Broadcast Networks

• NBC: The Peacock network’s election special begins at 7:00 p.m. Est/4 p.m. Pst and lasts until 3 a.m. Est./12 a.m.

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Last night, nerds ran wild and free as Rachel Maddow and friends kicked off their coverage of first of a series of Presidential debates leading up to the 2012 election.

The debate was moderated by PBS anchor Jim Lehrer. Well, “moderated” in the roughly the same sense that a lone plastic bag “moderates” the speed of freeway traffic. Maddow noted both the absence of the firm hand on the tiller and the failures of the debate structure, which was long chunks of time devoted to particular topic areas, with first an answer and then a response and then a rebuttal and then Mitt Romney interrupting and talking whenever he wanted.

“I personally do not know who won this debate,” said Maddow as they switched from the event proper to Punditland, “I do think that we saw this debate format die a very painful death on camera tonight.

One of the broad narratives of the 2012 election is that President Obama doesn't have a sufficient economic record to defeat former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, which means he must rely on a "contrast" campaign between their respective "visions" for the country. On Tuesday night's The Rachel Maddow Show, fill-in host Ezra Klein revealed a new set of goalposts from Mitt Romney that makes the President's record of job creation much more compelling.

On Monday night, Fox News' The Five beat everyone it the demo: the rest of the Fox lineup as well as those of MSNBC, CNN and Hln. The story was a bit different when it came to total viewers where Bill O'Reilly regained his edge, but The Five slid only to second place. The closest non-Fox contender was Rachel Maddow's fill-in, Ezra Klein, on MSNBC.