The most dangerous part of Bari Weiss's decision to pull a 60 Minutes segment last weekend isn't that she exercised her authority. It's the precedent she set that refusing to comment can function as a veto over investigative journalism. That is the line journalists inside CBS are now staring at. Once it exists, there's no unseeing it. Over the weekend, Weiss shelved a report by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi examining Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to CECOT, a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
I used to need about half a day per month to handle my personal business. That amount of time has tripled, mainly due to the skyrocketing degree of ineptitude on the other side of these transactions. AI receptionists, unwanted apps and other substitutes for human interaction have made everything worse. You can't refill a prescription if the AI receptionist doesn't recognize the name of the medication. It's getting harder and harder to get an actual person - someone capable of exercising judgment -
Colbert condemned Paramount Global's settlement with Trump, calling it a 'big fat bribe' and expressing his offense at the decision during his show post-vacation.
Sir Keir Starmer's recent benefit cuts could adversely affect around 800,000 legitimate disability claimants, raising concerns about the political fallout similar to pension cuts.