“When Lara Logan reached the heights of American journalism more than a decade ago, as the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, her bosses didn’t think twice about sending her to cover the biggest stories in the world. Producers clamored to work with her as she landed interviews with a Taliban commander, chronicled the Arab Spring and tracked the Ebola outbreak. Former President Barack Obama called her to wish her well after the most traumatic event of what seemed like a limitless career: She was sexually assaulted while covering a demonstration in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011,” the New York Times reports.

“But today Ms. Logan cuts a far different figure in American media. Instead of on national news broadcasts, she can be found as a guest on right-wing podcasts or speaking at a rally for fringe causes, promoting falsehoods about deaths from Covid vaccines and conspiracy theories about voter fraud.”

A must-watch on Netflix: The Martha Mitchell Effect.

The documentary chronicles the story of the wife of a Nixon Cabinet official who became a divisive figure in Republican circles after speaking out about the Watergate scandal.

The Washington Post looks at how Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden to help get his son into Georgetown University.

“The interactions reveal the extent to which Carlson was willing to turn on a former associate as he thrives in a hyperpartisan media world in which conservatives have made Biden a prime target for attack during his father’s presidency. They also show how Carlson once sought to benefit from the elite political circles in Washington that he now regularly rails against as the ‘ruling class.’”

Chris Wallace will host a Sunday evening show on CNN, Axios reports.

The longtime Fox News host had recently moved to CNN to launch a show on its now-defunct streaming service, CNN+.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) urged Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch and the network’s top executives in a letter to “immediately cease the reckless amplification of the so-called ‘Great Replacement’ theory on your network’s broadcasts” in the wake of a deadly racist rampage in Buffalo, the New York Times reports.

The Hill: White House says it won’t criticize by name those spreading “replacement theory.”

“Warner Bros. Discovery said on April 21 that it was shutting down the weeks-old streaming service CNN+, leaving several hundred employees to look for new jobs,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“A week later, several of those staffers received packages from CNN: boxes filled with network-branded gear, from pens to food containers, as well as items such as a popcorn maker and headphones.”

And there was a welcome note: “This is an incredible time to be part of CNN. Build relationships and take time to connect with colleagues and learn so that you make the most of your time here.”

“Donald Trump’s media company is now hiring for its upcoming streaming television service, posting an ad on job sites for creators looking to help produce Trump’s MAGAfied answer to Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+,” Rolling Stone reports.

“The right-wing One America News Network admitted in a Monday legal statement that there was no widespread voter fraud by Georgia election officials in the 2020 presidential election after having extensively pushed the groundless claim,” Insider reports.

“On Friday evening, right-leaning cable network Newsmax beat out CNN in terms of total viewers across prime time, due to former President Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania rally,” Mediaite reports.

Out next month: Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America by Dan Pfeiffer.

“How the right-wing built a massive, billionaire-funded disinformation machine powerful enough to bend reality and nearly steal the 2020 election.”

Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America

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“Bill O’Reilly’s really talented. He’s more talented than I am… But I think there’s a deep phoniness at the center of his shtick… built on perception that he is the character he plays… The moment that it’s revealed not to be true it’s over.”

— Tucker Carlson, on C-SPAN on September 13, 2003.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo suggested that Democrats are trying to create a new Covid-19 variant to help them win the midterm elections.

Said Bartiromo: “What a surprise… right on schedule… here comes the ‘midterms variant.'”

Chris Licht, the new head of CNN, asked employees not to leak internal meetings, which was promptly leaked to the New York Times.

“A group of Republican senators want a new TV rating created so parents can block their children from watching shows with LGBTQ characters,” the New York Post reports.

From their letter: “In recent years, concerning topics of a sexual nature have become aggressively politicized and promoted in children’s programming, including irreversible and harmful experimental treatments for mental disorders like gender dysphoria.”

A Newsmax host suggested — without evidence or logic — that future Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson may be responsible for the leak of a draft ruling that would dismantle abortion rights even though she isn’t on the Supreme Court yet, the HuffPost reports.

“Trevor Noah joked about the event becoming a superspreader — and now the cases are rolling in,” CNN reports.

“In the days since WHCD weekend, reporters and staffers from CNN, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, Politico, and other participating news organizations have tested positive for the virus. Most notably, ABC’s Jon Karl, who shook hands with President Biden and who sat next to Kim Kardashian, has fallen ill.”