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The only thing that made Courtney an A-player was Brian Frons and Chuck Pratt's fascination with her. The A.J. story worked early on but putting her with Jason made her unbearable and unpopular. As soon as Frons' focus shifted, Guza cast her out and then eventually got to kill her off.

I have a host of issues with Beutler's past history, but this is accurate and so was Variety: NY Times Pitchbot also still really, really pisses them off. This is the second time a critique has gotten under Tani's skin recently.

The Times gets blowback for headline choice again, reacts predictably, then buckles in the end: Martin did get ratio'ed for his reaction before the headline change, but it's remarkable just how openly contemptuous in recent times they've become in various media outlets, from guys like Max Tani to up and down the ladder. And it's wild that their recent argument has been 'don't blame us, journalism have no agency or impact in current events!' while also still claiming to be the essential bulwark informing the public in difficult times. But wait! There's more!

Dovere is often a gossip, but the story is worthwhile:

He's nowhere near as effective as his many exiled predecessors.

The ever-booked Mckenna Grace (Faith, Y&R) and Lacey Chabert (Bianca, AMC) both have voice roles in the new Amazon series Batman: Caped Crusader.

I didn't see this up, so here's the very in-depth WSJ story on the prisoner swap. Non-paywalled.

I don't think he will win most of them, if any. And I still think Shapiro is a very solid choice and impressive voice with normie non-online voters, but I would still probably prefer one of the others. But we'll see.

Hilarious:

I've also been really offended with people posting Rumble links throughout the board because they apparently don't know how to use Google or link properly. I don't blame AMCOLTL for it because I suspect I know the source.

Lord. Not Natalia and Brenda in the same shot! Nothing personal, Eva.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a journalist, activist and filmmaker, was one of the men freed whose family was at the WH in those videos - his wife and two children speak to him in the clips. I'm not sure he was present in the video at the tarmac the other night but he has been released. He was a protege of the late Boris Nemtsov, and like Nemtsov Putin attempted to assassinate him - twice, with poison. I'd love to believe he's right.

@DRW50 even for the Times this is shameless tapdancing. I give this one the night to get quietly changed.

A good piece above. Meanwhile, back at Semafor the gossip train goes where it can: A moment of clarity with TomI(!!): The repeated rounds of deranged longtime right-wing operators, bigots and weirdos (Rove, Vivek, now this) all lining up to beg the Trump campaign on TV to stop talking about race and get serious for days, only to watch them continue to fúck up is absolutely hysterical to me.

They've got absolutely nothing. This is like he's riffing.

LMAO:

Fox is coping well:

I am so glad this story is back post-debate/switch.

One of the greater headlines of this cycle. She's breaking him.

Sam fans still pretend this wasn't true, which cracks me up. It was so obviously the Jason/Brenda storyboards. The relationship was identical early on.

In another sign of good tidings, Kyle Rittenhouse of all people abandoned Trump the other night, only to swiftly take it back when facing MAGA wrath: