Happy Holidays!
2025 comes to an (exhausting) end
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A break this week for us to enjoy the holidays with family and friends.
Next week, I want to dig into the 60 Minutes debacle, where CBS News pulled its well-advertised piece called “Inside CECOT.” This from NPR reporting: [1]
Just a day and a half before it was set to be broadcast, new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a planned 60 Minutes investigative segment centering on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants last March.
This whole episode includes government influence over media, obeying in advance, and government censorship. It’s worth a deeper dive, but for now, I’m going to enjoy the break, and I hope you do as well.
Narratives
The book I’m reading or movie I’m watching
Taylor Swift: The End of an Era (streaming on Disney+)
From the Wikipedia overview [2]:
Taylor Swift: The End of an Era (stylized as Taylor Swift | The End of an Era) is a 2025 American documentary miniseries about the singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's sixth concert tour, the Eras Tour (2023–2024), directed by filmmakers Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce. The series consists of six episodes that follow the lives of Swift and her crew during the tour. It began streaming on Disney+ on December 12, 2025.
In the series, Swift and crew discuss the creative development, logistics, cultural impact and personal sentiments of the Eras Tour, which became Swift's most profitable tour to-date and the highest grossing tour of all time. It features interviews and archive footage of her family, backup dancers, band, and other personnel, as well as her friends and guest performers, such as Ed Sheeran, Florence Welch, Sabrina Carpenter and Gracie Abrams.
GIF Game
Notes and Sources
[1] David Folkenflik, “CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry,” NPR, December 22, 2025, https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g-s1-103282/cbs-chief-bari-weiss-pulls-60-minutes-story
[2] “Taylor Swift: The End of an Era,” Wikipedia, retrieved December 28, 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift:_The_End_of_an_Era
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