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  • Bad Times at Black Rock: CBS Causes Uproar After Seizing the Notes of Investigative Reporter

    02/23/2024 8:40:08 AM PST · by george76 · 59 replies
    Jonathan Turley ^ | February 23, 2024 | Jonathan Turley
    Below is my column in The Hill on the trouble brewing at CBS over the seizure of the files of acclaimed investigative reporter Catherine Herridge. The column broke the story on the uproar over not just her being laid off but her being locked out from her files. I am now hearing from CBS sources that the network is moving toward a resolution to turn over the files after the outcry. However, the concerns over Herridge’s firing and the network’s handling of her confidential notes continues to draw fire from journalists and commentators. The union issued a statement (below) after...
  • Media Lies: Those January Jobs Gains Never Happened

    02/05/2024 7:25:01 AM PST · by george76 · 25 replies
    PJ Media ^ | FEBRUARY 05, 2024 | STEPHEN GREEN
    When are 335,000 new jobs not 335,000 new jobs? When Washington makes them up and the media dutifully report them with all due breathlessness. ... The workweek, itself, contracted to 34.1 hours from 34.3 in December and 34.4 in November. This is the lowest number since March 2020 (the pandemic) and, before that, November 2008 (Great Recession)." Rosenberg Research calculated that, despite the job gains, total hours worked actually contracted .. In fact, the Household Survey — "the one the media ignores," as Barone put it — "showed up with a -31K headline jobs number, and a fall of -63K...
  • More than 500 journalists were laid off in January

    02/01/2024 4:07:00 PM PST · by george76 · 52 replies
    Just the News ^ | February 1, 2024 | Ben Whedon
    Earlier this week, reports emerged that digital news outlet The Messenger would shut down entirely.. More than 500 journalists lost their jobs in January as multiple outlets shed staff in the face of adverse industry conditions. A report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas highlighted the 528 layoffs across digital, print, and broadcast news media in January. The figure marked a substantial uptick from the 30 layoffs the firm identified the prior month and the highest total since last March's 532. The news industry lost more than 3,087 positions last year, an increase from 1,808 in 2022 and 1,511 in 2021....
  • The Washington Post Is in Full-Scale Collapse

    01/05/2024 9:14:39 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 61 replies
    Red State ^ | 01/05/2024 | Bonchie
    Is The Washington Post in full-scale collapse? A recent look at the numbers provides a fairly convincing answer to that question. According to the report, not only is the Post losing $100 million a year, but it lost over half of its online engagement by the end of 2023. The signs were already there by mid-year, and the worst has come to pass. See: The Washington Post Is Facing a Financial Buzzsaw“Of that audience, less than one in five read more than a single article per month, while less than one in 500 actually convert to a paying subscription.”— Josh...
  • The New York Times doctored what Hunter Biden said, leaving out one very important key word…

    12/14/2023 6:43:11 AM PST · by george76 · 33 replies
    Revolver News ^ | December 14, 2023
    The New York Times is at it again with its dissemination of fake news. This isn’t just another accidentally incorrect story, like so many before, or their “Pulitzer prize-winning” fake Russia hoax stories; this time, they’re actively altering quotes, presumably to shield Joe Biden. This latest fake news scandal comes on the heels of a recent Gallup poll that highlighted a historic low in American trust in the fake news legacy media. Axios: American’s trust in media has fallen to a historic low, according to new polling from Gallup. Why it matters: Trust in media had previously dropped to 32%...
  • New audiobook release: The American Newspaper

    11/29/2023 7:37:13 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 7 replies
    After a much longer delay than I hoped would happen, I am very happy to say that Will Irwin's The American Newspaper is now available as a public domain audio book. For those of you who have strong feelings against media bias, this one is one you will not want to overlook. It's also a short work. There are only 15 segments, and the average runtime for each segment is often times in the 20-25 minute range making it both easy and quick to consume. Irwin properly frames how media use their power for political ends, and how their power...
  • New York Times Controversy Exposes the Inherent Conflict in Advocacy Journalism

    11/05/2023 7:00:32 AM PST · by george76 · 16 replies
    Jonathan Turley ^ | November 5, 2023 | Jonathan Turley
    Jazmine Hughes, a writer for the New York Times Magazine, resigned this week after a conflict with her editors over signing of an anti-Israeli letter. New York Times Magazine Editor Jake Silverstein said Hughes violated the company’s policy on public protest. The incident exposes the inherent conflicts — and hypocrisy — in the shift away from neutrality in reporting in media companies and graduate programs. I have long been a critic of what I called “advocacy journalism” as it began to emerge in journalism schools. These schools encourage students to use their “lived expertise” and to “leave[] neutrality behind.” Instead,...
  • Top network issues surreal memo: Don't refer to Hamas as 'terrorists'

    10/09/2023 8:07:44 AM PDT · by george76 · 49 replies
    WND News Center ^ | October 8, 2023 | Joe Kovacs
    A major broadcaster in North America is reportedly instructing its journalists not to refer to Hamas attackers as "terrorists." ... Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC, which issued an internal memo over the weekend in the wake of Hamas' onslaught of killings and kidnappings in Israel, with more than 700 murdered and at least 2,300 wounded. ... written by CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp) employee George Achi instructing reporters to: 1. not to mention Gaza has not been occupied since 2005. 2. not refer to Palestinian terrorists as terrorists.. ... do not describe 2005 as 'the end of the occupation' as Israel...
  • Breaking! CBS Report: Mysterious DoD Iran Attack Memo Does Not Exist and Is Not Part of Jack Smith Case Against Trump

    06/27/2023 8:13:34 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 157 replies
    Conservative Treehouse ^ | June 27, 2023 | Sundance
    After a full media cycle of apoplexy and pearl-clutching, which included Andrew Weissmann appearing on MSNBC to declare “It’s the end of Trump,” CBS is now reporting there is no Defense Department memo about attacking Iran – the foundation of the media claims surrounding the leaked audio tapes from Special Counsel Jack Smith. Worse still, and exactly as CTH previously outlined, despite the claims by CNN about how this audio would be used as the “central element” by the prosecution of Trump, the audio and mysterious memo are not part of the Special Counsel case. ..... Snip..... (Via CBS) –...
  • Networks Ignore Supreme Court Ruling Against Biden's EPA

    05/27/2023 9:24:04 PM PDT · by george76 · 14 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | May 25th, 2023 | Kevin Tober
    All three evening news broadcasts Thursday ignored the United States Supreme Court ruling against the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and sharply limited its powers to regulate wetlands. It was a big win for property rights in the United States and a stinging defeat for the unelected bureaucrats at the EPA. Since that was the case, it's unsurprising that the "big three" evening news broadcasts of ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News would ignore the story. Instead, news about a recent shark attack (ABC & CBS), and another segment on recently deceased singer Tina...
  • Nolte: 59% of Voters Agree Media ‘Truly Enemy of the People’

    05/26/2023 11:21:24 AM PDT · by george76 · 15 replies
    Breitbart News ^ | 23 May 2023 | JOHN NOLTE
    When asked if they agree that the media are “truly the enemy of the people,” 59 percent of those polled agreed, while only 36 percent disagreed. In other words, a pretty large majority of Americans agree with former President Trump that the media are our enemy — which is 100 percent true. Rasmussen surveyed 1,002 likely American voters between May 16-18 and also discovered most people know the political media cannot be trusted, and this same political media favor the Democrat party. “Do you trust the political news you are getting?” Only 30 percent said yes, while 52 percent said...
  • WaPo, NYT Refuse to Return Pulitzers for Spreading Lies About Russia Collusion Hoax

    05/18/2023 6:41:16 AM PDT · by george76 · 17 replies
    Red State. ^ | May 17, 2023 | Mike Miller
    The Washington Post and The New York Times knew from the beginning that the purported Russia “collusion” story — the assertion that Donald Trump conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election — was a hoax, ... WaPo and the NYT garnered Pulitzer Prizes — the most prestigious award in American journalism — for their “deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage” of the Democrat-pushed hoax. Uh-huh. Deeply sourced from the likes of thoroughly discredited former FBI director, James Comey and others. Moreover, both formerly-respected papers refuse to return the Pulitzers, following the release of the damning Durham Report, which...
  • Huge Rise in Hate Crimes Against American Churches — and Crickets in the Media

    05/05/2023 8:02:38 AM PDT · by george76 · 14 replies
    PJ Media ^ | MAY 04, 2023 | RAYMOND IBRAHIM
    Attacks on churches and Christian institutions on American soil are at an all-time high. The March 27, 2023 killings in Nashville — where a woman claiming to be a man (aka “transgender”) stormed a private Christian school and murdered three children and three adults — is just the spectacular tip of a growing but concealed iceberg. According to recent reports by the Family Research Council, “criminal acts against churches have been steadily on the rise for the past several years. ... there were more church attacks in the first quarter of this year than there were in the first quarters...
  • Scale – Tucker Carlson 2 Minute Video Had More Viewers Than All Cable News Programming Combined in 24 Hour Period – 72.7M vs 53.1M

    04/29/2023 6:57:05 AM PDT · by george76 · 13 replies
    Conservative Treehouse ^ | April 28, 2023 | Sundance
    To give scale to the growing insignificance of broadcast news networks, consider this fact-based analysis. Tucker Carlson released a two-minute video on Twitter that had 72.7 million views in 24 hours. The entire cable news industry combined, every show on every channel, over the corresponding timeframe had 53.1 million views. ... Tucker Carlson had more viewers than the combined total legacy media cable news networks combined. Yeah, there are more of us than them…. and Tucker Carlson is the most powerful man in the media right now. “When honest people say what’s true … they become powerful. At the same...
  • Only 25% of Americans believe the news media

    02/18/2023 7:41:19 AM PST · by george76 · 28 replies
    Hot Air ^ | February 17, 2023 | David Strom
    Fifty percent of Americans believe that the news media lies in order to promote a narrative. Only 25% actually believe this isn’t true. The rest are skeptical, unsure of what to think. Guess who that 25% are… ... These numbers don’t come from some right-wing polling outfit. They come from Gallup, not Rassmussen or OneAmerica. If you look at these numbers Americans believe that the news media is rich, but don’t care about them or tell the truth. Which, to be honest, is exactly right. They are wealthy and do only care about themselves and their allies. And they surely...
  • VIDEO: $4.50 for a 26 Page Weekday Newspaper!!!

    02/06/2023 1:14:54 PM PST · by PJ-Comix · 36 replies
    Rumble ^ | February 6, 2023 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEOWho out there would actually pay $4.50 for the weekday edition of a newspaper consisting of only 26 pages total? That is an even bigger mystery than how newspapers think they can get away with charging that much for their ultra-thin newspapers. Oh, and I would love to know the TRUE circulation numbers of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. I've seen the "official" circulation figure and no way does the real circulation come close to what they are pretending for the benefit of the few advertisers they have left.
  • “Objectivity Has Got To Go”: News Leaders Call for the End of Objective Journalism

    02/01/2023 11:09:47 AM PST · by george76 · 48 replies
    Jonathan Turley ^ | February 1, 2023 | Jonathan Turley
    We previously discussed the movement in journalism schools to get rid of principles of objectivity in journalism. Advocacy journalism is the new touchstone in the media even as polls show that trust in the media is plummeting. Now, former executive editor for The Washington Post Leonard Downie Jr. and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward have released the results of their interviews with over 75 media leaders and concluded that objectivity is now considered reactionary and even harmful. Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle said it plainly: “Objectivity has got to go.” Notably, while Bob Woodword and others...
  • It's Over, Joe: New York Times Throws Joe Biden Under the Bus

    01/24/2023 11:21:59 AM PST · by george76 · 48 replies
    PJ Media ^ | JANUARY 21, 2023 | ROBERT SPENCER
    The New York Times has long ago abandoned any pretense of being an actual news source and has settled into its role as the foremost propaganda arm of the hard Left, capitalizing upon the fact that there is still a considerable number of people in the U.S. and around the world who still think that the Times can be trusted to report events impartially and accurately. In reality, the only thing the Times is good for is revealing what the political and media elites are thinking.. the Leftist establishment is through with Old Joe Biden. Watch for him to be...
  • Get Woke, Go Broke: Washington Post Staff Meeting Erupts Into Chaos As Layoffs Announced

    12/15/2022 3:40:12 PM PST · by george76 · 48 replies
    Nation and State ^ | 12/15/2022 | Tyler Durden
    Get Woke, Go Broke: Washington Post Staff Meeting Erupts Into Chaos As Layoffs Announced After losing more than half a million subscribers in the past two years, did the far-left writers and employees at the Washington Post really think they would avoid any consequences? It would appear that they are exactly as oblivious as many people suspected. A recent hidden camera video has surfaced of the latest Washington Post employee “town hall” meeting, in which CEO Fredrick Ryan delivers the bad news that the company will be executing worker layoffs after subscription revenues plummeted. Not surprisingly, the employees (presumably made...
  • The Fifth Estate

    12/14/2022 5:47:50 AM PST · by Red Badger · 2 replies
    www.piratewires.com ^ | 13 December 2022 | Mike Solana
    Dangerous alliance. In 1787, Edmund Burke said there were “Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there [sits] a Fourth Estate more important than they all." The notion of some vital power beyond our government was imported to the New World, and today constitutes a core belief of the American liberal: there is no free people, we’re often told, without a free press independent of congress, the courts, and our president. But throughout the 20th Century thousands of media outlets gradually consolidated, and by the dawn of our internet era only a few giants remained. These giants...