* At one time, Terry Moran was a candidate to succeed the late Peter Jennings as ABC news anchor. Now he’s been fired—after 28 years. It’s what happens when you make an inappropriate, however understandable and ironically accurate, post on X that labeled Trump and Stephen Miller, his odious deputy chief of staff for policy, as “world class haters.” The latter, he added, operates more on “bile” than “brains.” Moran, who now refers to himself as an “independent journalist,” is currently posting on Substack.
* Two years ago, Fox News lost a hefty defamation suit to the Dominion Voting System. This year it’s California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who’s suing Fox for defamation. One obvious takeaway: It inevitably comes with an unfair and unbalanced business model. In short, it’s the rationale that you aren’t pushing the envelope on partisan politics and better ratings if you’re always reporting accurately and commenting fairly.
* TBT’s “News & Brews”: Whatever it takes, including “meet and greets” with readers, to try and stay relevant and connected to a transitional reader base. The Times also has launched a weekly newsletter, Florida In Focus.
* “We are analog creatures in a digital world.”–On Being podcast host Krista Tippett.
* “Paramount may have closed this case, but it opened the door to the idea that the government should be the media’s editor in chief.”–Bob Corn-Revere, of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, on the agreement to pay President Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on “60 Minutes.”
* “You do not get rewarded for telling the hard truths about America in a profit-seeking environment.”–The late Bill Moyers.