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Brian Lowry

@brianlowry.bsky.social
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Media columnist and critic, previously CNN, Variety, LA Times. Email: blowryontv@gmail.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whenever someone poses, "The [insert ethnic group] Question," the answer is always "racism"
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trust me, CNN, you don’t want me to fill out the survey that just landed in my inbox.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire is quietly shooting a pro-ICE movie that dramatizes the Renee Good killing. We got the script. My latest False Flag for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/daily-wire...
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The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script.
Locals aren’t happy about the film’s take on the ICE shooting of Renée Good.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is it?
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Both Benny Johnson and Sean Hannity have now deleted their tweets claiming that Eric Schmitt put Jack Smith "on the spot" and set him up for perjury charges with his faceplant.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: Let them eat QAke! www.thebulwark.com/p/dan-scavin...
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Bizarro White House Vid Has QAnon Buzzing
While Republicans cringed at the champagne-soaked spectacle, conspiracy theorists scoured it for a message.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wouldn’t go quite that far but worth seeing. The title definitely did it no favors.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
See my post called, "Send the Interns," from January of 2017. pressthink.org/2017/01/send...
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Phil Rosenthal @philrosenthal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I thought turning it into a punchline was unfair. It was uneven, but sometimes great. I often rewatch the jury scene (“He’s Guilty”) and the scene with the addict mom about to sell her baby (“Sandman’s Coming”) from the pilot. Randy Newman used the latter song again in his “Faust” musical.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seconded and posted. Everyone else get aboard and let it fly.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Personally, would read the shit out of a piece in which ex-spouses rate their former spouse’s body of work.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Platforms like YouTube & Substack can democratize media. Having Trump launch "Trump TV" because his coverage wasn't sufficiently sycophantic turns that equation on its head. For @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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‘Trump TV’ Upends the Media Gatekeepers Debate
Donald Trump didn’t like the news he was seeing, so he decided to create his own. In that endeavor, he joins plenty of others who have capitalized on an evolving media environment to bypass traditiona...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Robert Pattinson plays a ruthless vigilante in his new movie. But no, it's not Batman but "To Catch a Predator's" Chris Hansen, whose main weapon was a hidden camera, in “Primetime,” a film that also casts a harsh eye at his viewers. For @ms.now www.ms.now/opinion/robe...
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Opinion | Robert Pattinson’s new movie is an unsettling look at modern vigilantism
The film “Primetime” stars Pattinson as former “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To quote the Vision, “I was born yesterday.”
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Jessica J. González @jgo4justice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BlocktheMerger groups @freepress.bsky.social @1acommittee.bsky.social @freedom.press @filmcoalition.bsky.social @documentary.org filed an amicus brief last night urging the court to reject Paramount’s consent decree with state AGs. More here: www.freepress.net/news/free-pr...
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Free Press and Block the Merger Partners File Amicus Brief Blasting Pitiful Paramount Settlement
“The court should reject this deal outright," says Jessica J. González. "It doesn’t address the anti-competitive concerns that state attorneys general themselves identified in their initial lawsuit."
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In other words, you get the government you deserve, folks.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wonder if there’s a way to total up all the hours and dollars that news organizations have spent to counter Trump’s inane, bound-to-fail lawsuits.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez on Paramount-Warner Bros merger: “This settlement appears to pave the way for yet another massive media consolidation deal that could raise prices for consumers, reduce content diversity, and weaken editorial independence”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An entirely reasonable organizational response from CNN would be that they will no longer host members of the administration as long as the administration bars them from the White House
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A lot of prescient AI movies, by the way, but in researching this was again reminded of “Colossus: The Forbin Project,” a chilling little 1970 film that flopped at the box office, probably because it was ahead of its time.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To better grasp AI fears through pop culture, bypass "The Terminator" and go to nuclear-age 1950s monster movies, where trifling with forces beyond our control unleashed existential threats that often claimed their creators as victims. For @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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‘The Terminator’ Isn’t the Best Example of AI’s Threat
As fear of what unfettered AI could mean for humanity has exploded into the public consciousness, media commentators have been grasping for ways to help understand what that really means. Not surprisi...
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Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The First Amendment as interpreted by Trump: "Conservatives can say what they want. Anything else Americans want to say, they say at their own risk." By @adamserwer.bsky.social, who is always so great on these issues. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Speak at Your Own Risk
Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not the first “woman” I’m guessing to resort to extraordinary measures to end a conversation with Piers Morgan.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rogan appears to be auditioning for “Memento 2.”
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
With “The Shards” ending as a new “Monster” and "AHS" arrive, the prolific Ryan Murphy’s sex-violence cocktail keeps taking an axe to old TV standards. At the risk of yelling at clouds, viewers should ponder if they are what they eat. For @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Hollywood Got Too Comfortable With Ryan Murphy’s Monsters
Despite Ryan Murphy’s success as a writer, producer and director, there has always been sharp criticism of his style of mashing up sex and violence into an unsavory stew. Naysayers lament the corrosiv...
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not all heroes wear capes.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yep. Alienating the people who watch/read you chasing those who never will.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Who isn't covering it? CBS had the only evening news show that didn't. Fox News gave it 1 minute of airtime -- a Special Report segment framed around the response. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News all but ignores report that a Russian oligarch bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Did CBS have an agreement with the Pentagon not to ask Hegseth any actual reporter-style questions, like, why is this war going on 6x as long as we were promised, or why didn’t you foresee Iran’s Hormuz strategy, or why are our munitions stockpiles so low, or …
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In the documentary "Mike Wallace is Here," "60 Minutes'" success is attributed to its formula of "hero reporters and sweating villains." If the new season begins to falter, we won't need an investigation to identify the latter. For @ms.now www.ms.now/opinion/60-m...
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Opinion | ’60 Minutes’ wasn’t just news, it was great television. Can a reshuffled CBS sustain the magic?
CBS News’ decision to mess with the legacy newsmagazine’s formula remains puzzling, aggravating, and thanks to its corporate management team, politically suspect.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
McConaughey must’ve been unavailable.
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just read a story calling Jimmy Kimmel ABC's first (and possibly last) late-night host. Dick Cavett (who is blessedly still with us), Joey Bishop and Les Crane would like a word! (Ted Koppel might have thoughts, too, though his was a news discussion show. And Jack Paar just did one week a month.)
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Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"In hindsight, the last cultural moment of the nightly news broadcast’s social authority occurred on Sept. 11, 2001. In the immediate aftermath of that terroristic attack, we experienced the last turn of the classic anchorman." slate.com/business/202...
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The Last Time We Worshipped in the Church of the Nightly News
9/11 marked the final gasp of the ministerial anchorman.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
But who will comfort Mike Vrabel now? 
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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Launching tomorrow! Here comes “The Sun.” The Washington Sun, that is. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/b...
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Politics News Site NOTUS Rebrands as The Washington Sun
A trademark dispute scuttled its plans to relaunch as The Washington Star, so the site chose a different name.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember when John Kerry got swiftboated for his ACTUAL Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts?
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Your annual reminder of what REALLY happened: Donald Trump went on WWOR Radio on 9/11/01--yes, that very day--to say that with the collapse of the Twin Towers, he now had the tallest building in New York. Which was a good preview of things to come, in that it was both disgusting and a lie.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Would happily offend them if it would get them to embrace this sentiment.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Less about Holmes than why she would participate in Nathan Fielder’s performance art, plus the allure of being dropped as a “secret” project.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Daisy, Daisy…”
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Count me as skeptical that the Fox “shift” is anything more than the minimum required to provide legal ass covering www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/b...
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What Led to Maria Bartiromo’s Downfall at Fox News
The network this week took Maria Bartiromo off the air, pulling one of the last hosts whose coverage of Dominion Voting Systems drew an expensive defamation lawsuit.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Looks like a job for that Spider-Man meme….
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Jessica J. González @jgo4justice.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Breaking. Astroturf group that won’t disclose its funding sources builds AI tool that manufactures phony support for the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger. This group is shady AF.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Absolutely this. ESPN used to be something I'd throw on in the morning, then come back to late at night, and now it's something I accidentally stumble across and rush to change. If I actually wanted to get screamed at by jackass gambling addicts 24/7, I'd live at a casino.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Weirder when you think the median age of people watching this is ~70.
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Brian Lowry @brianlowry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Clickbait Hall of Fame contender.
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