Obviously this is not the point, but I guess streaming has kind of made it so that some young people don’t really know what cable is…

🚨NEWS: The NBA and Amazon Prime Video have a framework for an agreement that will make the streamer one of the homes for significant regular season and postseason games for a decade, The Athletic has learned.

Full details:

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🟡SCOOP: At the low point of President Joe Biden’s polling this winter, top New York Democratic donors pushed to bring the legendary Democratic politico Rahm Emanuel back from his posting in Japan to run the re-election campaign.
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Jesse Watters seems to have walked back his apology for the Chinatown segment.

Left is Watters to Max Tani in December 2016 and right is Watters to Lachlan Cartwright yesterday

In a statement to Semafor, a New York Times spokesperson pushes back on this, saying 'the notion that any line of coverage has been ordered up or encouraged in retaliation for declining an interview, or any other reason, is outrageous and untrue.'

Scoop: G/O Media has sold The Onion. The company told employees in an email today that it was bought by a new company called Global Tetrahedron and the site's staff will be kept on

LeBron, KD, Steph era seems pretty over…

Some news about me! I’m still going to be doing media reporting, with a bit more Thought Leadership. First step: Have some thoughts…

From last night's Semafor media newsletter: Lunden Roberts, who had a child with Hunter Biden, is shopping a book

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From last night's Semafor media newsletter: Run For Something co-founder Ross Morales Rocketto is exploring buying some of the remaining G/O Media properties semafor.com/newsletter/04/…

🟡 Inside the courtship between Axel Springer and the Trump administration.

New from Ben Smith in Semafor Media:
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Axel Springer's Trump years semafor.com/article/04/21/…

In his new book, Jim Vandehei writes that Mathias Döpfner and Henry Kravis approached him with a pitch to purchase Axios for $400 million and buy Politico. Axel would then install Vandehei as the head of a combined company without Politico founder Robert Allbritton’s approval.

Average male media consumer