Media’s Third Rail, S.B.F. Odds, WaPo Reality Check

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon memo featuring Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Dylan Byers delves into how the tragedy in Israel is playing out in the cable news ratings, and within the MSNBC and CNN newsrooms.

Plus, below the fold: Bill Cohan offers a final word on Michael Lewis’s Going Infinite, his controversial character study of Sam Bankman-Fried. Guest contributor Shirley Halperin ponders the music industry’s silence after the massacre in Israel. And on The Powers That Be, Jon Kelly joins Peter Hamby for another rollicking episode of Media Monday, in which the pair dissect the Washington Post’s C.E.O. search and the Michael Lewis-Walter Isaacson biography paradox.

DYLAN BYERS

Cable news has always struggled to balance moral clarity with the view from nowhere, especially when it pertains to Israel and Palestine. For many, the atrocities of the past week have validated the importance of on-the-ground reporting in an era where success is too often determined by style over substance.

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WILLIAM D. COHAN

Thoughts on S.B.F. and the Michael Lewis of it all.

SHIRLEY HALPERIN

The music business was built, like the rest of Hollywood, by immigrants escaping antisemitism. So why is the industry so silent in the wake of the massacre in Israel?

PETER HAMBY & JON KELLY

Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss The Washington Post layoffs, its ongoing C.E.O. search, and the fate of executive editor Sally Buzbee. Then they dig into the Michael Lewis-Walter Isaacson pickle.