“Alex Jones is a far more reputable source of information than Rachel Maddow. One of them is censored by the regime. The other promoted by it.”

— Ohio U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance (R), on Twitter on September 5, 2021.

“This must be what Hell’s like, they just read out the damages. Even though you don’t got the money.”

— Alex Jones, quoted by NBC News, upon learning that he owes roughly $1 billion in damages to Sandy Hook victims.

“Fox News recently aired a two-part interview between Tucker Carlson and Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West,” Vice News reports.

“Motherboard has obtained portions of the interview that were edited out of the final broadcast. These include numerous antisemitic sentiments from Ye, a strange and lengthy digression about ‘fake children’ he claimed were planted in his house to manipulate his own children, and a statement that he’s vaccinated against COVID-19.”

“Sen. Ted Cruz’s media empire is catching up to his political career, as he turns a weekly podcast begun at the start of Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial into a thrice-weekly operation bankrolled by iHeartMedia,” the Dallas Morning News reports.

“iHeart is the No. 1 syndicator of U.S. radio programming, reaching 245 million people each month. Cruz’s show joins a conservative stable that includes Sean Hannity, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, Glenn Beck and Jesse Kelly. Rachel Maddow is among the liberal podcast hosts carried by iHeart.”

“Publications owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital, the second-largest newspaper publisher in the country, will no longer endorse major political candidates in their opinion pages,” the New York Times reports.

Donald Trump sued CNN on Monday for alleged defamation and is seeking at least $475 million in damages, Axios reports.

Wall Street Journal: “Trump’s suit, filed in a federal court in southern Florida, alleged CNN has sought to use its influence with viewers to spread false claims about him for the purpose of defeating him politically. He accused CNN of associating him with Adolf Hitler and portraying him as a Russian lackey and a racist.”

“Even if I did move on, I don’t get to move on, because at this point I am so publicly associated with this story — so, until he stops being a story, I think I’m stuck.”

— Maggie Haberman, quoted by Politico, on covering Donald Trump.

Chris Wallace’s much-hyped return to television with the debut of Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace scored a paltry 44,000 viewers in the all-important ratings category, Radar Online reports.

Tucker Carlson spoke at the funeral of Ralph “Sonny” Barger, the longtime president of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, The Guardian reports.

The Department of Justice considers the Hells Angels to be linked to organized crime.

A person close to Donald Trump told CBS News that he’s planning to be on Hannity on Fox News tonight to respond to the lawsuit filed by New York’s attorney general.

Philip Bump: “All of the checks our culture has on misinformation work too slowly to be effective. Mark Twain’s well-worn adage about lies traveling halfway around the world was born in an era where getting halfway around the world took a few days. Now everything is faster, burrows deeper, spreads more widely than Twain could have imagined. But our processes for containing or counteracting false information haven’t changed much at all. It’s fighting the coronavirus with leeches.”

“It has been a particularly bad summer for some of the worst purveyors of misinformation polluting American politics.”

“For a guy who continually complains he’s being secretly surveilled, Alex Jones sure does a lot of spying,” Rolling Stone reports.

“In recent years, the conspiracy theorist has used a network of informers and spies to covertly surveil his ex-wife — and he’s used a similar arrangement to track his current spouse, according to texts on Jones’ phone described to Rolling Stone by multiple sources.”

ABC, NBC, and CBS are all covering King Charles’s first speech.

None of them carried President Biden’s primetime speech about the ongoing threats to American democracy.

NPR: “The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims. The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify then-President Donald Trump’s lies that the election had been stolen from him.”

“The producer’s email is among the voluminous correspondence acquired by Dominion’s attorneys as part of its discovery of evidence in a $1.6 billion defamation suit it filed against Fox News and its parent company.”

The new German owner of Politico sent an email to his closest executives asking if they should meet up to pray for Donald Trump’s re-election, the Washington Post reports.

When asked about the email, Mathias Döpfner initially denied it existed: “It has never been sent and has never been even imagined.”

When confronted with a printout of the email, he explained that he may have sent it “as an ironic, provocative statement in the circle of people that hate Donald Trump.”