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PREVIEW VERSION
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Greetings from Los Angeles, happy holidays, and
welcome back to In the Room. In tonight’s email, news and notes on all the latest agita emanating from Will Lewis’s increasingly limp Washington Post executive editor search. Plus, a closer look at Bob Iger’s true motives for that $15 million Trump settlement, and George Stephanopoulos’s future at ABC News.
Also
mentioned in this email: Jeffrey Toobin, Horacio Gutierrez, Matea Gold, Gloria Borger, Chuck Todd, Cecilia M. Altonaga, Robin Roberts, Matt Murray, Cliff Levy, Anne Kornblut, David Muir, Whit Johnson, Michael Strahan, E. Jean Carroll, Oliver
Darcy, Sally Jenkins, and many more…
But first…
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- 🍸 On the latest edition of The Grill Room, famed legal analyst and author Jeffrey Toobin joined me to diagnose Bob Iger’s $15 million settlement with Trump, which has led to various questions, some high-minded and others deeply cynical, about the media’s fortitude as we head into Trump 2.0. Follow The Grill Room on
Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- Durbin strikes back: On Capitol Hill today,
CNN’s Manu Raju asked Senator Dick Durbin how he could support a congressional pay raise given lawmakers’ recent performance. “What about...
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News and notes on the most pressing topics at the intersection of
the D.C. media axes of intrigue: Stephanopoulos’s sloppy electronics, and Washington Post top editor contingency planning.
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Last Friday, Disney C.E.O. Bob Iger approved a now much-debated
decision to settle Donald Trump’s defamation suit against ABC News by way of a $15 million payment to Trump’s presidential library, plus an additional $1 million to cover his legal fees. The decision, which Iger greenlit on the advice of Disney general counsel Horacio Gutierrez, kicked up a predictable shitstorm over the weekend among First Amendment advocates, legal scholars, and Chuck Todd types, who rightly noted that Disney would
have been in a strong position to win the case had it not caved, and thus expressed fear over the precedent this might set for...
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legal-and-standards-approved version you read online. Every Tuesday and Friday, join Dylan Byers, Puck’s veteran media reporter, as he sits down with TV personalities, moguls, pundits, and industry executives for raw, honest, sometimes salacious conversations about the business of media and its biggest egos. New episodes publish every Tuesday and Friday.
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A professional-grade, insider-friendly tip sheet from John Ourand, the industry’s
preeminent sports business journalist, covering the leagues, agencies, media deals, and the egos fueling it all.
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