Media Meltdown and also Media Bias 101

[romad1]

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

This from a newsletter I get from a media industry insider:

My Personal Post on Facebook About CBS
No upfront presentation. No press breakfast. No fanfare over next season’s primetime lineup. Stephen Colbert exits after last night as part of a cost-cutting strategy. Escalating turmoil at CBS News regarding editorial independence. “60 Minutes” continues to lose staff, with Scott Pelley the latest departure. The tarnished Tiffany Network’s famous “Eye” is looking more bloodshot by the day.

 

Reform of the media is more important than ever.  Seems like its down the list of priorities but really the robber barons are more powerful than ever now and getting away with things because of this plunder of journalism. 

[chasfh]

25 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Reform of the media is more important than ever.  Seems like its down the list of priorities but really the robber barons are more powerful than ever now and getting away with things because of this plunder of journalism. 

So, so many things have to be reformed that there is practically zero chance that I'll live to see most, if any, of it. I hope you do.

[RatkoVarda]

Bulwark

Command economy. Gangster government. Socialism. Whatever you want to call it, this is an authoritarian age. And in an authoritarian age, the corporate ownership of media is dangerous because corporations are financially incentivized to turn their media outlets into fleshlights for the Dear Leader.

We should be clear: Bari Weiss is murdering 60 Minutes. She is doing so not out of incompetence or foolishness, but with malice aforethought. She is doing it at the behest of her corporate patron, because while she may cause CBS News to lose millions of dollars, her stroking of Trump will gain David Ellison billions of dollars.

[chasfh]

This is a small thing, I grant, but I do like how outlets outside the RWM ecosystem have for the most part avoided referring to Trump's weaponizing fund as being "$1.776 billion", opting most of the time to refer to it as $1.78 billion, $1.8 billion, or even $2 billion. The entire idea of selecting that exact amount was to gain acceptance and credibility for it by linking it to an important number in American history, designed to stimulate an endorphin rush among red hats and casting opposition as being unpatirotic, so that by reporting on that amount, the media would be complicit in advancing that goal for them. Again, a relatively small way to protest, of course, but we're in the every-little-bit-helps phase of things now.