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  • It’s not just Colbert - network late-night TV is dead

    07/19/2025 4:25:20 PM PDT · by Libloather · 80 replies
    NY Post ^ | 7/19/25 | Johnny Oleksinski
    Everybody was shocked — shocked! — when Stephen Colbert announced this week that CBS canceled “The Late Show.” The despondent media reacted like a meteor was about to smash into Earth. But how surprising was Colbert’s kibosh really? Did peoples’ jaws also hit the floor when Blockbuster Video called it quits in 2014? Were they muffling their screams when blimps were phased out for air travel in 1937? “What do you mean ‘no more silent films’?!” The end of “The Late Show” was every bit as writ-in-stone as any of those predictable downfalls. And it’s not only Colbert. The Grim...
  • CBS Cancels The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — Show to End in May 2026

    07/17/2025 5:27:31 PM PDT · by StAnDeliver · 39 replies
    LateNighter.com ^ | July 17, 2025 | Jed Rosenzweig
    "CBS has announced that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, bringing the show’s historic run—and the Late Show franchise itself—to a close."Colbert addressed the show’s cancellation himself while taping tonight’s show."
  • Leftist Bureaucrats In Charge Of Government-Run Media Refuse Peaceful Transition Of Power

    07/16/2025 5:09:08 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 4 replies
    The Federalist ^ | July 16, 2025 | Beth Brelje
    It takes the undeveloped ego of a toddler to pout this long. But if Elmo on Sesame Street can learn how to share, surely these three can too. For all its concern about a peaceful transfer of power, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) are probably not planning a story about the three board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) who have refused to leave the board after Trump removed them in April.Not so long ago — in 2020 and 2021 — PBS and NPR were spreading propaganda that President Donald Trump was going...
  • Mexico braced for Trump’s mass deportations. They haven’t happened.

    07/06/2025 2:06:39 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 48 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | July 6, 2025 | Mary Beth Sheridan
    Trump has largely shut down the southwest border by ending asylum programs and deploying troops. But those moves have shrunk the pool of easy-to-deport migrants.TIJUANA, Mexico — When President Donald Trump pledged to launch the “largest deportation operation in American history,” this border city swung into action. The local government declared a state of emergency. Federal authorities built a shelter for up to 2,600 deportees, complete with beds, showers and white-coated chefs. It was, one local official said, the “zombie apocalypse scenario.” But five months after Trump took office, the shelter is nearly empty. So few deportees have arrived —...
  • How Trump Broke The Media

    06/24/2025 12:46:30 PM PDT · by Signalman · 18 replies
    youtube ^ | 1 month ago | MAGAmark
    The mainstream media tried to destroy Trump—but in the end, they destroyed themselves. This is the story of anchors who lost their minds, reporters who lost their careers, and a media machine that couldn’t handle President Trump.
  • ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Scott Pelley warns a CBS settlement with Trump would be ‘very damaging’

    06/10/2025 1:12:23 AM PDT · by Libloather · 32 replies
    Fox News via NY Post ^ | 6/09/25 | Hanna Panreck
    “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley spoke out about President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS and its parent company on Saturday, arguing that a settlement would be “very damaging.” “Well, it’d be very damaging to CBS, to Paramount, to the reputation of those companies,” Pelley said during a conversation with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Saturday, who asked how harmful a settlement and potential apology would be to the network. Trump filed a lawsuit against Paramount Global, CBS News’ parent company, over a “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris in October 2024. Fox News Digital confirmed that Trump rejected...
  • Scott Pelley opens his mouth again. Uh-Oh.

    04/29/2025 4:18:00 AM PDT · by Racketeer · 26 replies
    X ^ | April 27, 2025 | Brent H Baker
    Scott Pelley ended @60Minutes by lamenting the resignation of Executive Producer Bill Owens who “did it for us and you.” Pelley ludicrously claimed Owens made sure stories on Israel and the Trump admin “were accurate and fair.” Pelley complained: “Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways. None of our stories has been blocked, but Bill felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires.”
  • Trump’s briefing room takeover reflects the evolution of White House clashes with press

    04/06/2025 5:34:56 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 23 replies
    Washington Examiner via MSN ^ | Apr 6, 2025 | Haisten Willis
    While all presidents tussle with the press, President Donald Trump has taken things to another level at the beginning of his second term. Trump, still in his first 100 days in office, has kicked the historic Associated Press out of the Oval Office and off of Air Force One, seized control of the White House press pool rotation to bring in friendly outlets, and now may take over coveted seating assignments in the Brady Press Briefing Room. All three moves generated howls of outrage from the White House Correspondents' Association, an 800-member group that previously self-policed access. "The White House...
  • WHCA rejects Trump administration’s plan to take over briefing room seating chart

    03/31/2025 3:39:33 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 43 replies
    Politico ^ | March 31, 2025 | Ben Johansen
    The White House Correspondents’ Association on Monday pushed back against the White House’s plans to exert control over the briefing room seating assignments for journalists. In an email to members, the association — which is made up of an independent group of journalists covering the Trump administration — said it was aware of the reported efforts from the White House to take over the briefing room’s organization chart. The seating has long been set by WHCA. “If the White House pushes forward, it will become even more clear that the administration is seeking to cynically seize control of the system...
  • The Fall and Fall of the Associated Press

    03/30/2025 4:41:25 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 28 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 30 Mar, 2025 | Rajan Laad
    “Liberal bias” or “Democrat bias” are deeply inadequate to describe the attitude among members of the mainstream media. The 'About Us' section on the Associated Press (AP) website declares the following: "Since 1846, we have been breaking news and covering the world’s biggest stories, always committed to the highest standards of accurate, unbiased journalism. We were founded as an independent news cooperative whose members are U.S. newspapers and broadcasters, steadfast in our mission to inform the world. To this day, AP remains independent, beholden only to the facts. "From delivering the news via pony express in 1846 to working with...
  • Layoffs Continue at L.A. Times: Cuts Made to Operations, Communications

    03/28/2025 5:14:41 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | March 28th 2025 | Simon Kent
    The Los Angeles Times has delivered another round of layoffs with the outlet’s business side slashed just weeks after 40 newsroom employees accepted buyouts. The Wrap reports the full count isn’t known, citing Oliver Darcy that dozens of employees across the company’s operations and communications sections were let go this week, including Vice President of Communications Hillary Manning. Representatives for the Los Angeles Times didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from TheWrap.
  • ABC News to lay off dozens, merge ‘Good Morning America’ and ‘GMA3,’ ax ‘FiveThirtyEight’ data site

    03/05/2025 8:00:42 AM PST · by dynachrome · 30 replies
    NY Post ^ | 3-5-25 | Alexandra Steigrad and Ariel Zilber
    ABC News staffers are bracing for imminent layoffs while the division will restructure its programming including the merging of its “20/20” and “Nightline” programs and the consolidation of its “Good Morning America” productions, according to reports. The Walt Disney Co. is set to lay off around 200 people from its ABC News Group division as well as its Disney Entertainment Networks unit — a move that constitutes cutting some 6% of the combined staff of the two units, according to the Wall Street Journal. Almin Karamehmedovic, president of ABC News, circulated a memo to employees on Wednesday morning confirming the...
  • Fact check: Trump lies at CPAC about the 2024 election he won

    02/23/2025 5:34:39 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 68 replies
    CNN ^ | February 23, 2025 | By Daniel Dale (D-CNN)
    CNN - President Donald Trump keeps lying not only about the 2020 election he lost but the 2024 election he won. In a Saturday speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump correctly noted that he earned 77 million votes in 2024 — then falsely said his vote total was “actually much more than that,” since unspecified people “cheated like hell.” There’s no basis for this claim. Trump’s official vote total is his actual vote total, and there is no evidence of unsuccessful cheating by vote counters or by his Democratic foes. Trump made various other false claims at CPAC,...
  • Big swings, big misses: DOGE struggles to back up its outsized claims

    02/19/2025 3:12:05 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 36 replies
    NBC News | Comcast ^ | February 19, 2025 | By Jane C. Timm (D-NBC)
    Elon Musk’s cost-cutting and fraud-finding apparatus, the Department of Government Efficiency, came out swinging in recent days. The result? Two stunning strikeouts. A series of announcements by DOGE as well as claims by Musk and President Donald Trump about the agency’s efforts have crumbled under scrutiny even as they’re broadly repeated by conservative pundits, sympathetic media and the White House. Two of the most notable claims — around Social Security fraud and $8 billion savings found in a Department of Homeland Security contract — have been debunked. Meanwhile, Trump’s agenda is set to add to the federal government’s deficit well...
  • Surprise! The media just discovered Bidenomics works.

    01/09/2025 11:14:12 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 36 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | January 9, 2025 7:45 AM EST | Jennifer Rubin
    The New York Times wrote a few days ago, “President Biden is bequeathing his successor a nation that by many measures is in good shape, even if voters remain unconvinced.” Just how good are things? Here’s how the Times described the state of the economy:For the first time since that transition 24 years ago, there will be no American troops at war overseas on Inauguration Day. New data reported in the past few days indicate that murders are way down, illegal immigration at the southern border has fallen even below where it was when Mr. Trump left office and roaring...
  • Washington Post begins layoffs, cutting 4 percent of workforce

    01/07/2025 10:44:05 AM PST · by Red Badger · 21 replies
    FOX Business ^ | January 07, 2025 | Joseph Wulfsohn , David Rutz
    The Washington Post began laying off a chunk of its workforce on Tuesday, cutting figures on the business side of the company. The cuts did not affect the newsroom. About 4% of the company, or less than 100 people, will be laid off across its business divisions, Fox News Digital has learned. The layoffs, beginning Tuesday, were first reported by the New York Times. "The Washington Post is continuing its transformation to meet the needs of the industry, build a more sustainable future and reach audiences where they are," a Post spokesperson said. "Changes across our business functions are all...
  • Liberal White House Reporters Already ‘Exhausted’ with Second Trump Term

    11/30/2024 12:04:48 PM PST · by Silentgypsy · 52 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 2024 11 29 | Olivia Rondeau
    White House reporters are already “exhausted” with President-elect Donald Trump’s second term before it even starts, members of the press corps told Vanity Fair on Wednesday. In the article, titled “Reporters Brace for the Frenzy of a Second Trump White House,” New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker said, “Anybody who went through it the last time remembers how nonstop it was.” “It ends up kind of becoming all-consuming and taking over your life. It wears you down,” he lamented
  • Jim VandeHei: Why clear-eyed journalism matters

    11/26/2024 2:47:01 AM PST · by yesthatjallen · 15 replies
    Axios Sneak Peak via MSN ^ | 11 24 2024 | Staff
    Axios CEO Jim VandeHei inspired and energized a National Press Club gala with a passionate, ad-libbed defense of free and fearless reporting, warning that "everything we do is under fire." "I hate this damn debate about: Oh, we don't need the media," he said Thursday night as he and co-founder Mike Allen accepted the Fourth Estate Award for lifetime achievement. "It's not true." What they're saying: "I love this country," Jim added. "I'm a beneficiary of this country. Some dipsh*t from Wisconsin can come and start two companies, be up here, win an award." SNIP
  • Washington Post has descended into a dark abyss - here’s why

    11/24/2024 3:42:15 AM PST · by Libloather · 22 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/22/24 | Charles Gasparino
    The Washington Post used to be one of the best gigs in journalism. No longer. In a business where it generally sucks to be an employee (except for the NY Post, of course), the “WaPo,” as it is known in journalism circles, has really descended into the abyss, On The Money has learned. Top reporters want out of what they see as crappy new work conditions and possibly more layoffs coming. It’s a shame, of course. The paper and its journalists — think Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and their dogged pursuit of Watergate — set the gold standard for...
  • Veteran news editor expects Trump 'to go after the press in every conceivable way' (delusional drama queen alert)

    11/20/2024 6:03:01 PM PST · by DoodleBob · 45 replies
    NPR ^ | November 20, 2024 | Terry Gross
    Heading into a second term, New Yorker editor David Remnick says Donald Trump's anger "has been never so intense as it's been against the press." The president-elect has referred to the news media as the "Enemy of the American people," has threatened retribution against outlets that have covered him negatively and has suggested that that NBC, CBS and ABC should have their licenses revoked.Marty Baron, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, says he expects the incoming administration "to go after the press in every conceivable way ... [using] every tool in the toolbox — and there are a...