Maddow, Colbert, and Kimmel walk away from corporate television, seize control, and today launched an independent newsroom that promises live investigations, leaked-document exposés, advertiser boycotts, subscriber-funded reporting, and a coordinated talent migration — networks scramble, stock prices wobble, executives panic, and the once-unassailable media establishment suddenly feels fragile, globally shaken.
BROOKLYN — The broadcast went live in the kind of unpolished, furious swirl that once defined television’s golden scrambles. A converted warehouse, three mismatched chairs, a cluster of cameras strung with gaffer tape — and the three names that, for decades, had anchored millions of nightly eyeballs: Rachel Maddow, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. Within … Read more