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.

[chasfh]

It’s funny because it’s horrifyingly plausible. 

 

[romad1]

I was briefly glancing in the direction of the abyss of the Thomas Crooks news that was being sent to me and stumbled across this and noted language.  

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/kinlee-hoyle-5-things-on-butler-cop-as-sheriff-junks-reports-of-thomas-crooks-emails-before-trump-assassination-attempt/ar-AA24ZCN4

The article is from the HIndustan Times which appears to be a legit outfit.  

Quote

Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones slammed reports alleging that Deputy Kinlee Hoyle emailed Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man shot and killed after allegedly trying to assassinate Donald Trump when he was on his presidential campaign.

"Earlier today, a completely false "news" story was circulated online that named Butler County Deputy Kinlee Hoyle of Ohio in connection with the tragic attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Irresponsible reporting like this is unacceptable and places officers at risk. We should expect and demand better from our news media," he wrote on X. The sheriff tagged David J Harris Jr, who has a segment on NewsMax.

Harris Jr, who has often expressed pro-Trump sentiments, had written on the Elon Musk-owned platform that Hoyle had had prior communication with Crooks.

Yes, tell us the biases of the players.  And nobody should be on X for any reason because would you use it if it were run by Bull Connor, David Duke or Adolph Hitler? 

[romad1]

 

Kristin Walker gets a baby diaper full of diarrhea tossed in her face from this evil clown.

[LaceyLou]

13 minutes ago, romad1 said:

 

Kristin Walker gets a baby diaper full of diarrhea tossed in her face from this evil clown.

And of course he can't resist demeaning her by calling her darling. 

[romad1]

1 hour ago, LaceyLou said:

And of course he can't resist demeaning her by calling her darling. 

She's about as friendly an interview as he should get from the formerly mainstream press. 

[guy incognito]

3 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

And of course he can't resist demeaning her by calling her darling. 

And laying a hand on her shoulder.

[CMRivdogs]

Please don't give him a do-over. Make him own it. 

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[romad1]

https://bsky.app/profile/gonebabygone.bsky.social/post/3mnpmvifbrk2q

[guy incognito]

On controlled demolitions:

 

[chasfh]

4 minutes ago, guy incognito said:

On controlled demolitions:

 

Take a look at the Free press and I think you will see her vision for CBS News: the lionization of the corporate class, an implacable advocate for Zionism and foe of the Arab world; and such fealty to Trump that they address him directly through headlines as "Mr. President".

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[pfife]

4 hours ago, chasfh said:

Take a look at the Free press

Hard pass but I take your word for it and thank you for your service

Edited 4 hours ago by pfife

[chasfh]

11 minutes ago, pfife said:

Hard pass but I take your word for it and thank you for your service

Honestly, all I had to do was scan the home page and look at the headlines. In the attention economy, a content provider has to tell people exactly what they're getting while they're on the surface, because they'll lose the people if they dig into the details and it is not exactly what they thought it would be.