Media Monday: Disney’s Cable War & More CNN!

Julia Ioffe joins Peter to explain the Ukrainian president’s strategy, Putin’s Gordian knot, and whether the Russian president could actually face trial for war crimes. And Puck executive editor Ben L...

6 Apr 202217min

William D. Cohan joins Peter to explain why Elon Musk spent 1% of his net worth, or nearly $3 billion, to become Twitter's largest individual shareholder. Is he out to gobble up the company? Does he w...

5 Apr 202219min

Jon Kelly joins Peter to discuss Jen Psaki’s decision to pick MSNBC over CNN and whether she’ll be able to handle the green room heat. They also chew over whether Alex Wagner—or anyone, for that matte...

4 Apr 202219min

William D. Cohan joins Peter Hamby to examine the C-suite headache at Disney, where former C.E.O. Bob Iger appears to be trolling his successor, Bob Chapek. It’s reminiscent one of one of the most tho...

1 Apr 202221min

Tina Nguyen joins Peter to explore Ron DeSantis’s 2024 calculus for staying quiet about Ukraine, his strategic non-aggression pact with Trump, and perhaps the biggest question hanging over the G.O.P. ...

31 Mar 202219min

Teddy Schleifer joins Peter Hamby to discuss the emerging political ambitions of a previously anonymous billionaire with some big political aspirations. Jeff Lawson, the C.E.O. of Twilio, is positioni...

30 Mar 202219min

Baratunde Thurston joins Peter Hamby to discuss the tragedy of Will Smith’s Oscar night, pinpointing the most critical mistakes that the actor made beyond the infamous clocking of Chris Rock. They als...

29 Mar 202225min

Peter Hamby is back just in time for another Media Monday. Jon Kelly joins to discuss Chris Wallace's parting words to Fox News, the respected journalist's jump to CNN+ and his Norman Rockwellesque ne...

28 Mar 202228min