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White House Correspondents' Dinner 2026: Bari Weiss, Pete Hegseth, and the Media's Surrender | Breaking the News

The White House Correspondents' Dinner is a conflict of interest wearing a tuxedo — and this year, it's worse. Bari Weiss invited Pete Hegseth. CBS is losing Stephen Colbert and replacing him with Byron Allen. The Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swann Iran war chapter drops — and the sources make themselves look very good. Jared Kushner is negotiating with Iran in Pakistan. Melania's past is about to catch up with her. And someone in the comments coined the term "Epstein visa."
Just another Friday.
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The New York Times Has a Women Problem and We're Not Letting It Go | Breaking the News

Julie's back from Japan and she's got things to say. The New York Times ran two op-eds declaring Me Too dead and the future no longer female — on the same day it buried a story about a church trying to strip women of the right to vote. Meanwhile, Iran dropped an AI-generated Lego hit on Pete Hegseth that honestly out-trolled the entire Democratic Party. Plus: an American fighter jet downed over Iran, the slow death of bold storytelling in Hollywood, and King Charles as NATO's secret weapon.Michelle Kinney, Julie Roginsky, and Jeff Jarvis.The Daily Dispatch with Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney is brought to you by The Mayday Network — a women-founded, women-led independent media — built for a country in crisis.
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Michael Cohen Is a Scorned Man, MAGA Declares Liberal Women the Enemy, and Julie's Fox News Feelings

Nobody should be surprised about's Michael Cohen long con. Julie and Michelle weren't. He's teaming up with Laura Loomer on Rumble, Kkkaroline Leavitt is already tweeting it out, and the whole thing is so coordinated it practically came with a press kit. This is what a scorned man looks like when he finds a new grift.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp went on CNBC and explained that AI exists to strip political power from educated liberal women and hand it to working class men — out loud, on camera. Michelle breaks down the AWFUL nonsense.
Jeff Jarvis connects it all to Hannah Arendt and the deliberate weaponization of ignorance. A DOGE staffer cancels a Holocaust documentary for being too focused on women. And Julie asks out loud whether her years at Fox News made things better or worse. Should liberals even appear on Fox? What's the answer? 

Trump Shrugs Off American Deaths, Chance of Retaliatory Attacks at Home. The Media Still Won’t Say It: This Is WW3.

Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Donald Trump responded -- “I guess.”  https://time.com/7382697/trump-iran-war/
At the same time, Russia is reportedly providing intelligence to Tehran targeting U.S. forces, the conflict is spreading across the Middle East, and the American press still refuses to say what this increasingly looks like.
This is World War III. 
Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis discuss what’s actually happening — and why much of the media still won’t connect the dots.
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Who Controls the Media -- Controls Democracy.

Legacy media is changing fast — and not for the better.
Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis break down the accelerating collapse of trust in news institutions, the looming takeover reshaping CNN and major entertainment companies, and what happens when journalism, culture, and democracy collide.
If the old media system is ending, what replaces it — and who do we trust next?
We also talk about where audiences are actually going now… and what we’re watching when we need a break from all of this.
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Colbert vs. CBS — And the Death of Old-Timey Media

[RECORDED FEBRUARY 20, 2026]
Stephen Colbert pushed back. CBS flinched.
 
And the ground is shifting under everyone. Anderson Cooper stepped away from 60 Minutes. Jake Tapper looks increasingly squeezed inside CNN’s shrinking cable universe. In a post-cable world, where does someone like Tapper even land? Who survives when the old guard collapses?
This isn’t just about one show or one network. It’s about the unraveling of legacy media — under corporate ownership, political pressure, and a collapsing business model.
This week, Michelle Kinney, Julie Roginsky, and Jeff Jarvis break down Colbert vs. CBS, Anderson’s 60 Minutes exit, Tapper's big book chill, and what the death of old-timey media actually means for the future of journalism.
If the old institutions can’t hold — what replaces them? (Independent media!)
 
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Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Arrested | Media Silence, Epstein Distractions, and the End of Press Freedom

[RECORDED LIVE FRIDAY JANUARY 30, 2026]
Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested despite a judge finding no legal basis to do so. This is tyranny. 
Michelle Kinney, Julie Roginsky, and Jeff Jarvis unpack what these arrests reveal about the state of press freedom in the United States, why legacy media continues to downplay authoritarian behavior, and how journalists outside the corporate press are increasingly being targeted.
This episode confronts what happens when reporting becomes a risk — and silence becomes policy.
 
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The Media’s Role in America’s Authoritarian Slide

In the first episode of Breaking the News, Jeff Jarvis, Julie Roginsky, and Michelle Kinney examine how American media is helping normalize authoritarianism — from the killing of Renée Goode to the press’s increasingly sanitized coverage of Trump’s behavior and abuse of power. Through a sharp, unsparing conversation about language, narrative, and access journalism, they connect how violence, corruption, and delusion become “just politics” when the press refuses to tell the truth.
 
This episode sets the tone for a new weekly series dedicated to holding the media accountable for how power is reported, framed, and ultimately protected.