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Major claims in the materials assert that some prominent media outlets are associated with Jewish individuals — examples surfaced include Jewish news organizations and recent personnel moves such as B...
Candace Owens answered Ben Shapiro’s public rebuke with profanity, denunciations of his character, and renewed conspiratorial accusations tied to the Charlie Kirk saga, framing Shapiro as an impostor ...
Bari Weiss left The New York Times in 2020 after publishing an open resignation letter in which she argued that , and she subsequently founded The Free Press to pursue stories she believed were ignore...
Erika Kirk has been publicly active in December 2025: she spoke at the New York Times DealBook Summit on Dec. 3, appeared on Fox News programs in early to mid‑December and is scheduled for a CBS News ...
Ben Shapiro used his Thursday AmericaFest speech to directly name and rebuke Candace Owens for promoting what he characterized as baseless conspiracy theories about the September assassination of Char...
Major broadcast outlets such as ABC and CBS are not monolithic; independent ratings and academic studies place them across the center-left to centrist spectrum depending on methodology, time period an...
Candace Owens and Erika Kirk are publicly feuding after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, with Owens accusing Kirk and Turning Point USA of secrecy and profiteering and Erika Kirk demanding conspiracies s...
Tony Dokoupil was not fired from CBS in the reporting reviewed; he was elevated from CBS Mornings to anchor the CBS Evening News with his debut on Jan. 5, 2026 , and coverage instead documents a rocky...
CBS did pull a promoted 60 Minutes segment shortly before it was scheduled to air, but the mainstream reporting indicates that the segment pulled was about alleged abuses at an El Salvador prison tied...
Bari Weiss is portrayed across the supplied sources as the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly, using that platform to publish provocative commentary, investigative p...
Full transcripts exist for at least some of the interviews and appearances referenced: Fox News Media and The Charlie Kirk Show list interviews with Erika Kirk and Charlie Kirk episodes with accompany...
CBS and parent Paramount carried out rounds of layoffs in late October 2025 that affected roughly 100 CBS News staffers as part of a broader corporate reduction of about 1,000 employees in the first w...
Recent reporting shows Erika Kirk — widow of Charlie Kirk and now chair and CEO of Turning Point USA — has been highly visible in national media since her husband’s September 2025 assassination, appea...
Bari Weiss resigned from The New York Times on July 14, 2020, in a public letter saying she faced “bullying by colleagues” and that the paper had become “illiberal,” arguing that Twitter had become th...
Reports in mid-September 2025 say Bari Weiss is being positioned to take a senior leadership role at CBS News—described variously as —as part of a possible deal involving her outlet, The Free Press; t...
The dominant reaction captured in reporting to the airing—and to the earlier shelving—of the “60 Minutes” deportations segment has been critical and contentious rather than broadly positive: journalis...
Major ownership structures — from conglomerates and billionaire proprietors to public or foundation-backed outlets — shape editorial independence through formal controls (hiring, budgets, corporate st...
Erika Kirk — widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk — has been publicly linked to conservative political activity through multiple news reports: she was elected CEO/chair of Turning Point USA...
Erika Kirk (born Erika Frantzve) is a 36‑year‑old nonprofit executive and public figure who was named chair and CEO of Turning Point USA after the September 2025 assassination of her husband, conserva...
Yes. Multiple news organizations have reported on family dynamics and public disputes connected to Charlie Kirk after his September 10, 2025 shooting and death, focusing most heavily on his widow, Eri...