#media-controversy

#media-controversy

Welcome back to another edition of Queerty's "Quick & Dirty" series. Join us as we recap the biggest stories of the week. There's no script. There's no filters. Just queer news, quick and dirty. This week, Queerty's Graham Gremore, Alex Reimer, Cameron Scheetz and Johnny Lopez dive headfirst diving headfirst into the latest Grindr chaos after a former employee spilled to Vox about exactly when things went from spicy to soggy.

Writer Michael Tracey said his audio cut out right as he was being asked if he is paid by any of the men tied to Jeffrey Epstein during an appearance on Piers Morgan's YouTube show on Tuesday. Tracey who has cast doubt on many of the claims made by women who said they were victimized by Epstein was in the middle of a heated exchange with fellow Substack reporter Tara Palmeri over how the Epstein files have been covered when the technical difficulty happened.

I can tell you that my source every day since has stood by that reporting. And that is the thinking as of the day after Mrs. Guthrie was reported missing. There were a couple of things I reported in that, Dan, if we go back to Tuesday of last week. Number one, that Annie Guthrie's car was towed and is in evidence. That's borne out.

If you didn't know who Peter Attia was last week, here's how you'll remember him going forward: Attia is the guy who once emailed Jeffrey Epstein to confirm that "pussy is, indeed, low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten content, though." Until recently, Attia was known as a wellness influencer in the manosphere and a newly appointed contributor at CBS as part of the "Free Press to network TV" pipeline.

GREG GUTFELD: What have you got for us? KAT TIMPF: I mean, you have to see how some people might be feeling a little bit of whiplash here, given that Trump spent 10 years railing against U.S.-led regime change war. His own director of intelligence as recently as two months ago was railing against regime change war, and then he does one.

Bari Weiss has always been remarkably skilled at turning herself into the story. At CBS News, that instinct has become less an asset than a liability. That was always the risk when David Ellison handed one of America's most institutional news organizations to a journalist whose career has been built on argument, friction, and personal brand. The bet was audacious: that a figure forged in the Substack era could inject relevance and urgency into a legacy newsroom losing oxygen in a TikTok-shaped media environment.

Critics of the Trump administration have praised Vanity Fair's interview with the White House chief of staff, and particularly the unvarnished photographs of Trump's inner circle that accompanied it, as overdue scrutiny of a controversial cabinet even as his allies rallied to dismiss it as a hit piece. Over what the magazine said was 11 separate interviews by reporter Chris Whipple, Susie Wiles spoke candidly about her colleagues,

The article itself brought a massive amount of buzz, and Anderson's photos raised that to a nuclear level, with harsh lighting, unflinchingly close-ups of their faces, and posed photos that seemed clearly intended to communicate critical judgment of these people and the roles they were playing in Trump's second term. Many commentators were struck by the brutal detail of some of the photos, showing wrinkles, smeared makeup, stray hairs, and other facial skin imperfections.

That's a tricky question. I have nothing to do against [trans people], but I feel like they still got a huge advantage over the woman, and I think it's just not fair to the woman to basically face biologically a man. It's not fair, the woman been working her whole life to reach her limit, and then she has to face a man, which is biologically much stronger, so for me I don't agree with this kind of stuff in sport.

You can normally set your watches by Reform. It's a rare Monday morning in which Nigel Farage doesn't pop up somewhere in central London to give a press conference. Even when he has nothing new to announce, he usually has no shame in saying something he's said before many times. He likes the attention. Makes him feel valued. Satisfies his rampant narcissism.

Britain's national broadcaster will not be cutting a check to America's president, thankyouverymuch. Auntie Beeb has closed the cupboard and will not be doling out biscuits to the naughty tyke in chief. After reading his lawyer's bumptious demand letter that it fork over English taxpayer dollars, the BBC told Trump to do one. The kerfuffle is the result of a documentary aired more than a year ago entitled "Trump: A Second Chance?"

As the presenter moves to a new slot tomorrow, he discusses RTÉ pay, why he has decided not to announce his new salary and the Matt Cooper/Ivan Yates controversy Oliver Callan is recalling an encounter he had on the street with Pat Kenny. It's Thursday afternoon in Dún Laoghaire and we're discussing presenters' pay when he describes what the Newstalk presenter once surmised about presenters' earnings at the height of the RTÉ crisis over pay and secret side deals.

I pretty much can assure you that one, that once those doors are opened, it will be a scene of absolute, abject horror. And I think for sure, people who start to talk to the hostages who have only just been released, will find that it will take a long, long time for them to recover physically, but also mentally.

CNN's Van Jones is among 16 mainstream journalistsincluding two New York Times reportersserving as mentors in a new journalism fellowship explicitly created to help Israel win its information war. Drop Site's Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports that Jacki Karsh, who launched the fellowship after October 7, said it was her way to shift the narrative in Israel's favor, citing a call to fight on the battlegrounds of academia, law, business, media as inspiration.

President Trump stated yesterday that acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, is causing autism and warned pregnant women to avoid the drug. He says the Food and Drug Administration will update drug labelling to include warnings for pregnant women about using the painkiller. The president also suggested that a cancer drug, which appears to help get a form of vitamin B into the brain, might help relieve some symptoms of autism.

BRIAN KILMEADE: So Kimmel later went on to say that Trump was grieving over Kirk's death like a four-year-old mourns over a goldfish. More on that later. The point is that Kimmel's comments went way too far for some television executives. Not for me, not for you, but for them. And they turned up the heat on Kimmel, the host, to calm down the rhetoric.

The trial of animal welfare activist Zoe Rosenberg begins this week in Sonoma County. Rosenberg is accused of criminal conspiracy in connection with a 2023 incursion into a processing facility owned by Petaluma Poultry led by the Berkeley group Direct Action Everywhere. [Bay Area News Group] Residents of Benicia have been told to reduce their water consumption by 40% immediately after a damaged pipeline caused a significant water shortage. Something similar happened in 2022. [NBC Bay Area]