Breaking the News

[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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[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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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.