Yes, it’s still somehow free to subscribe to this nearly daily newsletter! Greg Mitchell is the author of fourteen books and director of four films for PBS since 2022. In a previous life, he was a longtime editor at the legendary Crawdaddy.
Jimmy still hanging in there, blasts Trump’s non-sense and a “false flag.”
Mike Luckovich:
Then there’s the ludicrous new Comey prosecution: He photographed seashells by the the seashore.
Steve Brodner:
Heather Cox Richardson:
The administration’s focus on the ballroom seems to echo Trump’s insistence after his first inauguration that the crowd at that inauguration was bigger than that at President Barack Obama’s. Anyone could see that was a lie, but Trump and his administration officials clung to it. Forcing supporters to accept a lie as reality is a key tool of authoritarians, making it harder for them to reject the next lie, and so on. The claim that Democrats are calling for violence, when in fact it has been Trump calling for executing those he believes are his enemies, follows that pattern exactly.
Matt Wuerker:
From Status media newsletter:
New Nielsen data obtained by Status shows Tony Dokoupil’s “Evening News” sinking to historic lows, with veteran TV news executives casting the network as a “sinking ship” and blaming its woes on Bari Weiss.
“This isn’t what a turnaround looks like. This is what a train wreck looks like.”
That was how one veteran television executive put it to me Tuesday, after I asked about new ratings data showing that Tony Dokoupil’s “CBS Evening News” has continued to hemorrhage viewers and sink to new lows, as Bari Weiss’ hand-selected anchor struggles to hold the audience.
Indeed, according to Nielsen data obtained by Status, Dokoupil’s most recent week, beginning April 20, marked the lowest-rated stretch in total viewers since he took over the broadcast. The program averaged just 3.7 million viewers—slipping below the once-unthinkable 4 million threshold. In the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demographic, the show averaged only 467,000 viewers.
And from The New York Times:
A military correspondent for The Times of Israel, Emanuel Fabian, began receiving death threats last month. His offense: reporting that an Iranian ballistic missile had struck Israeli soil on March 10. Gamblers on the prediction platform Polymarket had wagered more than $14 million on whether Iran would strike Israel on that day, and those who stood to lose flooded Mr. Fabian with demands that he change his story — that he reframe the missile as intercepted debris and let them collect. Some offered him a cut of their winnings. Mr. Fabian refused and contacted the police.
The story seems absurd, but it may become typical…
Music Pick
Is it too late for the King to take us back??
From Tune to Toons
de Adder:
Davies:
Zyglis:
Ohman:
Photo Finish
Tower at Mohonk, above the lake, spring time.
Another wonderful picture! I set it as my lock screen, thank you!
Love Jimmy Kimmel and the King George video. Very good selection of cartoons.