CNN’s Fresh Test, Wool After Words, The Post-It Protests

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

First up today, William D. Cohan maps out the Paramount Global endgame: the sweetened Ellison/RedBird offer, the allure of the less-romantic, all-cash Sony/Apollo bid, and the timing behind it all. Will Shari give us her decision tomorrow when the company holds its annual shareholder meeting?

Plus, below the fold: John Heilemann foreshadows the Trump trial aftershocks. Dylan Byers dissects the Journal’s Post-It protests and CNN’s month to forget. Marion Maneker chronicles the Christopher Wool revival. On Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri and Florida D.A. Dave Aronberg exchange insights on the Trump verdict. And on The Powers That Be, Jon Kelly and Dylan wade into the WSJ kerfuffle and the NBA rights auction denouement.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

News, notes, ruminations, and tea-leaf decoding regarding the final throes of the Paramount M&A saga.

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JOHN HEILEMANN

And, well, you know the rest. But while the verdict in the New York hush-money case was sweeping and unequivocal, the electoral impact of the former president’s 34 felony convictions is far less clear—even and especially to the Biden and Trump campaigns.

DYLAN BYERS

News and notes on the Journal newsroom’s Post-It protest and CNN’s month to forget.

MARION MANEKER

An unconventionally staged show of Christopher Wool’s work may reset the market for the artist and better frame his career in the contemporary marketplace.