Mollie Hemingway said that political potshots by the media during Hurricanes Helene and Milton are “a completely ridiculous focus” and that the media “seem to think their whole job is to protect the federal government.” She also said that Bob Woodward’s new book that makes explosive allegations on Trump’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin “reminds you of these classic information operations run by Democrats and the media who love them.”

Leslie Marshall said that the media’s job during coverage of natural disasters is to provide viewers with “information to separate the facts from the fiction.” She also said that Bob Woodward is “very respected … and not just among Democrats,” despite the Trump campaign calling him, among other things, “a total sleazebag who has lost it mentally” in response to the journalist’s new book.

Lisa Boothe said of CBS broadcasting on 60 Minutes a different version of a Kamala Harris answer on Israel than they did in a promotional clip, “they edited it to make her appear more intelligent than she is.” She also said that Kamala Harris “made herself look small” by complaining about Ron DeSantis not taking her calls before Hurricane Milton, and “it does look like Joe Biden has been openly needling [the vice president],” as he praised the Florida governor for being cooperative.

Meghan Hays said that 60 Minutes unfairly editing the Kamala Harris interview was “a huge unforced error by CBS,” which should “post the entire transcript online.” She also said that the vice president is “actually reaching people where they are” by appearing on nontraditional media like The View, The Howard Stern Show, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Oliver Wiseman of The Free Press said that he agrees with the head of CBS’s parent company who praised Tony Dokoupil for doing “a great job” with his interview of Ta-Nehisi Coates, despite executives at the network dragging the morning show co-anchor before an open staff meeting to censure him over perceived bias. He also said that across media, a “loud minority political perspective gets a kind of veto on what can be said,” and the Coates interview was “good journalism, asking tough questions,” so “why reprimand him at all?”

Kevin Corke said that while “everyone will agree [Barack Obama] is brilliant when it comes to politics, I really think he missed the mark” by lecturing Black men at a Pittsburgh campaign office about their lackluster support for Harris and suggesting it is about gender. He said that the comments were “tone deaf” and that they will “further alienate a lot of African American men.”