Ryan Lizza publicly accused former fiance Olivia Nuzzi of breaching journalistic standards by engaging in a romantic relationship with former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R), who she profiled for New York Magazine in 2019.

Right-wing news outlet One America News fired “The Matt Gaetz Show” producer Vish Burra after he posted a cartoon last week that characterized Jewish people as scheming cockroaches he later labeled as “vermin,” The Wrap reports.

Gilad Edelman: “The scandal that briefly made Brendan Carr a household name this fall was an outlier several times over. For one thing, FCC chairmen rarely make news. More than that, Carr usually knows better than to draw too much attention to himself. A seasoned bureaucrat, he has a knack for pulling the strings of power in ways that escape public scrutiny…”

“The whole episode was an unusual misstep by a skilled Washington operator. The hallmark of Carr’s tenure as chair of the Federal Communications Commission has been the exploitation of bureaucratic procedure to consolidate ownership of communications infrastructure in Trump-friendly hands, while keeping those actions out of both the court of public opinion and the literal courts. To liberals, this is an obvious attempt to rig the media. To conservatives, however, it is a long-overdue unrigging. Why should the national networks devote airtime every night to liberal comedians who incessantly mock Republicans?”

“Conservatives have been complaining about media bias for decades, but Republican officials were long averse to interfering with the decisions of private companies. Then came the second Trump administration, and its willingness to wage cultural warfare in more intrusive ways. Carr’s role in that effort is not to tell networks what to air and whom to fire. It’s to get to the point where he doesn’t have to.”

Donald Trump said he still plans to sue the BBC despite receiving the apology he demanded over a misleading edit of one of his speeches, The Guardian reports.

The BBC apologized to President Trump after criticism over how a documentary edited his Jan. 6 speech, and said it does not plan to rebroadcast the program, Axios reports.

The BBC board held an unexpected meeting on Wednesday as the British broadcaster stares down a legal threat from President Trump, CNN reports.

Politico: “The dispute — which has been seized on by figures on the British political right as well as Trump and his allies — comes as BBC bosses prepare to embark on a fraught round of negotiations with ministers over the rules it must abide by and, crucially, how it is funded.”

“The outcome will determine whether the storied British broadcaster, once the voice of an empire, survives in anything like its current form.”

President Trump on Monday threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion for a documentary that his lawyer claimed included “malicious, disparaging” edits to a speech Mr. Trump delivered on Jan. 6, 2021, the New York Times reports.

“The chairman of the BBC apologized Monday for how the U.K. state broadcaster edited a speech by President Trump, in an effort to draw a line under a scandal that has prompted both its director general and head of news to resign following criticism by the White House,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The apology came a day after BBC Director-General Tim Davie and BBC News Chief Executive Deborah Turness said they were leaving the organization.”

Sen. Ted Cruz blasted fellow Republicans for failing to criticize Tucker Carlson, saying the conservative pundit has “spread a poison that is profoundly dangerous,” Politico reports.

Said Cruz: “My colleagues, almost to a person, think what is happening is horrible, but a great many of them are frightened because he has one hell of a big megaphone.”

Steve Bannon told a conservative group he will be “going to prison” if Democrats win the midterms and 2028 elections, Mediaite reports.

Chris Cuomo, reporting on the New York City mayoral election for NewsNation, disclosed: “And of course, I wanted my brother to win.”

“Laura Loomer, the far-right political activist and former congressional candidate in Florida, has been credentialed to cover the Defense Department, joining a new cohort of right-wing media that have agreed to the Pentagon’s new press policy,” the Washington Post reports.

Paramount didn’t want to keep Stephen Colbert at CBS, but the company has signed Jon Stewart for another year of hosting “The Daily Show” once per week on Comedy Central, Variety reports.

“Fox News fell for a series of AI-generated videos this weekend in which fake SNAP beneficiaries bitterly complain and threaten to ‘ransack’ grocery stores, then rewrote the post and acknowledged the error,” The Wrap reports.

President Trump sat down with Norah O’Donnell on Friday for an exclusive interview airing Sunday on 60 Minutes, CBS News reports.