Good evening, and greetings from Washington, where I’m in town for White House Correspondents Dinner pre-game festivities. Puck co-founder Jon Kelly and I were honored to host an intimate private dinner this week at The Jefferson with some of this town’s smartest media executives, C.E.O.s, legendary journalists and top political messengers from premier institutions like Axel Springer, Axios, CNN, MSNBC, Politico, the Post, the Washington Commanders and Warner Bros. Discovery. The conversation was stimulating and thought-provoking, and I’m grateful to those of you who came out. (As with all Puck Private Dinners, this was off the record.)

Tonight, I’m running the gauntlet of pre-parties—Justin Smith’s Semafor soirée; the Axios cocktail hour hosted by Michael Rapino and the firm of VandeHei, Allen & Schwartz; and of course Jay Sures’s always exciting...

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At 11:28 a.m. on Monday, I tweeted the news, confirmed in a press release that went wide mere moments later, that Fox News was parting ways with Tucker Carlson. Tucker, of course, continually tested the Murdochs’ ability to balance the two aforementioned vulnerabilities: On the one hand...