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And now, a little more on the latest Bari–WarnerMount drama…

MEDIA

On Sunday, Anderson Cooper bid farewell to 60 Minutes with an emotional 17-minute segment that included a subtle critique of the newsmagazine’s direction under owner David Ellison and editorial leader Bari Weiss: “I hope 60 Minutes remains 60 Minutes,” he said. Perhaps Cooper’s decision to leave the program was a clear-enough message, but the line represented the latest installment in a deluge of bad press Bari has endured in her seven months on the job.

Now, as Paramount closes in on its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Dylan reports that senior leadership has begun informally discussing a narrower mandate for Weiss—one that would give her less control over the TV product at CBS News and, eventually, CNN. Meanwhile, a more experienced, as-yet-unnamed executive would be brought in to manage the business. (A Paramount spokesman disputed this characterization.) The conversations reflect a newfound acceptance that Bari was given too broad a mandate for someone without previous experience in television—but perhaps it’s a gift of sorts. After all, the next person to inherit her role may have to deal with much worse…

Click here to read Dylan’s full story.

HOLLYWOOD

Hollywood keeps trying to mine the red-hot genre for adaptations with built-in female fandoms. So why haven’t Amazon or Netflix cracked the code?

SPORTS

The French Open is underway, but the real action this week may be in a New York courtroom 3,500 miles away, where an upstart players union is making noise about the sport’s alleged anti-competitive, pay-suppressing practices.

FASHION

The irony of a self-styled “clean” fashion company selling to the apex fast fashion juggernaut has not escaped anyone. At the same time, there was probably no other alternative.

WASHINGTON

Obama strategist and political soothsayer Dan Pfeiffer on Trump’s “financial situation” gaffe, misunderstanding MAGA, and the enduring political superpower of being strong and wrong.

HOLLYWOOD

Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to conduct the first-ever Hollywood Jealousy Draft, where each of the five major entertainment companies (Disney, Comcast, WarnerMount, Netflix, and Amazon) can steal any asset from any of their competitors for free. Matt and Lucas cosplay as all-powerful C.E.O.s and select what they believe are the most-valuable assets in Hollywood. Matt finishes the show with a prediction about the final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

WASHINGTON

Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to break down Donald Trump’s purge of his Republican critics—from catalyzing Bill Cassidy’s wipe-out in Louisiana’s Senate primary to the all-out push to take down Thomas Massie—and the inevitable implications for the midterms. Then they discuss the latest beats in the Southern redistricting wars.

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