Stephen Colbert Vs. CBS

Stephen Colbert Vs. CBS

Author: Slate Podcasts February 19, 2026 Duration: 29:16

From the hundreds of Washington Post staffers fired, to Anderson Cooper leaving 60 Minutes, to Stephen Colbert and his own network fighting in public, Trump’s return to the White House is transforming legacy media into something less antagonistic to power—but also less capable of fulfilling its own self-described mission.


Guest: Oliver Darcy, journalist behind the Status substack.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.


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