The group ventriloquized the voices of authority—parents, school principals, cops, military officers, judges, politicians, newscasters, Soviet apparatchiks—and turned them into expressions of mass insanity.
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Andrew Katzenstein,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
World-famous newscasters didn't know who Jeffrey Epstein was.
The pope, responding to questions from journalists, declined to engage directly with the president's criticism.
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Anna McAllister,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
Despite enormous restrictions and both financial and political pressure, the tiny number of journalists who were still able to report in Hungary also made a difference.
Among other things, the Pentagon announced that the Correspondents’ Corridor, the journalist workspaces, would be closed, with plans to move reporters to an annex outside the building.
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Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2026
As the Times reporters Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman revealed this week in their in-the-Situation Room account of how Trump decided to start the war, no one in his Cabinet of courtiers had the guts to challenge his mistaken assumptions.
After holding steady last year while commercial broadcasters such as Canal+ and TF1 scaled back, the public broadcaster will reduce its investment in film by €5 million in 2026.
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Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
Once broadcasters enter the Pete Maher broadcast booth — named after the longtime, legendary Flames broadcaster — they’re treated to some of the best sight lines in the league for broadcasters.
Persons thus satirized included presidents Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon, as well as newsmen Dan Rather and Ted Koppel.
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Carmel Dagan,
Variety,
13 Apr. 2026
Attempts by newsmen to get word from the Complex 34 blockhouse proved fruitless as pad personnel declined to supply information or page public information officials.
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Orlando Sentinel Staff,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Jan. 2026
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