NEW Puck: ESPN exited the NBA exclusive negotiation window with a handshake deal....

Why didn't WBD?

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Sony to be majority owner of paramount. Legendary also involved. Sony /Apollo believe all regulatory concerns can be managed. Going to be long weekend for Special Committee.

Apollo/Sony $26 billion all cash offer paramount about to hit the market. More details from me soon.

That time was David Zaslav bought Don Lemon a $1,600 bottle of wine.

Details from Dylan Byers

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The latest from Paramount and the deal that is struggling to be born.

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With the eroding bluff along Nantucket's eastern shoreline claiming more of its property each year, the Sankaty Head Golf Club filed a demolition permit on April 22 for its Sankaty Head Beach Club at the end of Hoicks Hollow Road.

Bill Ackman The level of narcissism is pathological.

Cohen has been jailed. He pleaded guilty to a federal criminal campaign-finance violation for his conduct, which Trump's own Justice Department said that Cohen did on Trump's behalf and at his direction.

It's Trump's turn to be jailed.

This is just a simple factual error, Ken Klippenstein. Steve had left the paper when Judy did the bulk of her spurious Iraq WMD reporting.

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Note to Self: In my cri de coeur journalism manifesto about how I'm going to target billionaires, don't write this sentence:

'I’m not going to pretend to be fair.'

SCOOP Puck: Rob Marciano, the ABC News & Good Morning America meteorologist, has been fired from the network, per sources familiar. Multiple staffers had made complaints about Marciano’s behavior over the years and he was at least temporarily barred from main GMA set in NYC.

“He will fire a US Attorney who does not carry out his order to prosecute someone.”

Couldn’t agree with 🇺🇸 David J. Urban 🇺🇸 more firmly. Don’t agree with him that often but he’s right on here.

I think the University of Chicago president's note on protests and encampments is very much worth reading, for several reasons

1. Clear statement of values: Free speech, even when it's offensive, is a paramount value to be protected on college campuses—except when it comes into…

Former Trump's WH communications director Anthony Scaramucci:

“They say I have ‘Trump derangement Syndrome’. Excuse me? I have Trump reality syndrome. I’ve been there, I’ve seen it…Mr. Trump and his minions do not want that. This is an existential threat.”

.The University of Chicago really showing the benefits of having clear principals around speech

David Ellison, RedBird Pull Ahead in Race for Paramount - Puck

The latest insanity coming out of Times Square puck.news/david-ellison-…

So proud of ⁦Peter Baker⁩!

Loved every moment @cnn ❤️