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Brian Lowry On Media and Politics
Brian Lowry is the Media Editor at TheWrap, writing about media and its intersection with politics. He is a veteran media and television columnist, critic and reporter, with eight years at CNN as a columnist and critic. Before that he was chief TV critic at Variety and a reporter columnist covering television for the Los Angeles Times.
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Here’s How Americans View Journalists in the Trump Era
Although three-fifths of Americans see journalists as “important,” they face tall hurdles dealing with skeptics, falsehoods and misinformation
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Memo to Jay Leno: Your Late-Night Comedy Formula Expired a Decade Ago
The former “Tonight Show” host won praise from conservatives for saying late-night comics should appeal to everyone. Tell that to Fox News
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‘Alien’ Has Always Feared AI and Big Corporations. That’s More Relevant Than Ever
The new FX series “Alien: Earth” traffics in familiar themes about greed, oligarchy and mysterious robots that tie into what’s going on in the real world
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Should They Stay or Go? Veteran Journalists Face Tough Choices in the Trump Age
The exodus at the Washington Post, L.A. Times and anticipated reckoning at CBS News raise questions of what to do when your news organization loses its way
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Can ESPN Cover the NFL Fairly Now That It’s Part of the Team? | Analysis
The cable titan and pro football have a long and complicated relationship, but formally getting in bed together looks like bad news for ESPN’s journalism
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‘The Hunting Wives’ Uses Red-State Politics to Feel Smarter Than It Is | Analysis
The Netflix series is mostly just soapy fun, while incorporating enough pointed political references to take aim at conservative hypocrisy
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Rupert Murdoch Built Donald Trump. Now He’s Standing Up to Him
Murdoch’s legacy may be rewritten as he defends The Wall Street Journal’s Trump-Epstein reporting, all while Fox News remains a reliable supporter of the president
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Going to Comic-Con in Person Feels Like a Tonic for Toxic Fandom
The annual love fest in San Diego gives off a vibe wildly different from the fan community online
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How Producer Michael Uslan Gave Us ‘Batman’ and Shaped the Superhero Movie Era
The producer’s decade-long quest resulted in Tim Burton’s 1989 film and a new direction for comics on screen, but with a whole lot of fits and starts after
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Jon Stewart to Companies That Bend the Knee to Trump: ‘Why Would Anyone Watch You?’
“The Daily Show” host lashes out at the Colbert cancellation, but with a broader message about the faulty logic of currying favor with the “Boy King”
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‘Defund PBS’ Realizes a Long-Held Conservative Dream Built on Lies and Half-Truths
The decades-old campaign against NPR and PBS doesn’t reflect reality, but it does fulfill a Trump promise
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Bill O’Reilly Says Trump’s Response to Epstein Drama Is a ‘Mystery’: ‘Don’t Know Why He’s So Defensive About This’ | Exclusive
The former Fox host speaks with TheWrap about a post-Trump reckoning in media, the “60 Minutes” settlement and how he’d have prevented that Dominion suit
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Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart Bash Paramount, Serving Notice They Won’t Be Silenced
The two late-night hosts used their platforms to skewer Paramount’s “60 Minutes” settlement with Trump, sending a message to their bosses, old and new
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DC and Marvel Built Hollywood’s Superhero Boom. Can ‘Superman,’ ‘Fantastic Four’ Reverse the Slump?
Comic-book movies have come a long way over the last 50 years, but Marvel and DC’s big guns are out just as these films have hit a slump
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For Superman, It’s Truth, Justice and a Whole Lot of Political Baggage
The Man of Steel became an American symbol during World War II and later a political lightning rod, making adapting the character a heavier lift than Batman
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