De amerikanske etablerede mediehuse, også kaldet msm (main stream media), fyrer deres medarbejdere i et stadigt mere hektisk tempo. Howard Kurtz skrev på Fox
The news business is in a tailspin. Firings and layoffs and buyouts are decimating its ranks. Publications and websites are folding. Revenue is plunging. Credibility is at an all-time low. And AI is starting to gobble up jobs.
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The billionaire owner of the once-mighty Los Angeles Times, Patrick Soon-Shiong, has fired the editor and more than 20 percent of its staff, devastating the Washington bureau and several key units. The billionaire owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, has given buyouts to 240 staffers, decimating the metro staff and losing many of the paper’s biggest names.
If newspapers aren’t owned by these wealthy moguls, they’re increasingly controlled by hedge funds whose strip-mining tactics have reduced them to a skeleton of their former selves.
From Vice to Vox, from Time (15 percent laid off) to Business Insider (8 percent), from Sports Illustrated (blown up) to BuzzFeed News (shuttered), the carnage is everywhere.
And just yesterday, the Messenger, a news and aggregation site launched by Jimmy Finkelstein, former owner of the Hill, shut down after less than a year, having lost $38 million and some staffers lured from top publications.
CNN just had a major round of layoffs. Cable news audiences are aging, and cord-cutting is growing in popularity.
It’s not just that the voracious Internet broke the business model; that happened a quarter-century ago. It’s that there seems to be no end in sight.
“Journalists across the country burst into flames of panic this week, as bad news for the news business crested and erupted everywhere all at once,” writes Jack Shafer in Politico.
En mere udførlig gennemgang kan man læse hos Forbes. For CNN er det særligt slemt. “Corporate media have gotten every single major story of the last decade wrong, in big and little ways.” skrev Mollie Hemingway i The Federalist og mente ikke at ‘professionel’ journalistik stod til at redde
Whether it’s the 2016 election, the Russia-collusion scam, the threats posed by Covid and response to the same, the effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s life and family, accurate discussion of the Biden family business, immigration, abortion, crime, racism, guns, hate crime hoaxes, the economy, inflation, education, the relationship between the sexes, the radical trans agenda, or a thousand other stories, the media haven’t just been bad. They have been absolutely irredeemably awful.
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The Washington Post, we might recall, launched the Russia-collusion scam by having one of its longtime journalists launder an information operation against the American people. The criminal leak against the Trump administration remains one of the great uninvestigated and unsolved crimes of recent memory. That the Post gleefully and willingly took part in an information operation against the country is reprehensible. The paper perpetuated the Russia-collusion hoax with hundreds of stories based on anonymous sources from the intelligence bureaucracy. This scam was no minor thing. It was the lie that Donald Trump was a traitor who had stolen the 2016 presidential election by colluding with Russia. It caused massive amounts of damage to the republic.
Farhi, for his part, seemed to think that many things in the invented “Steele dossier” were true. Falling for a completely false and unsubstantiated claim from fellow Russia hoax outlet McClatchy, Farhi wrote, “If this is accurate, put another check mark next to the Steele Dossier.” Another? ANOTHER? Way to showcase the bare minimum of skepticism and do real professional journalism there, guy.
After finding out the absolutely jaw-dropping news that the Steele dossier was an information operation, bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign, Farhi wrote, “Most surprising thing abt Clinton’s involvemnt w/Steele Dossier (aside from paying for it) is why her campaign didn’t make more of it.” Citizen journalists knew enough to be even more suspicious about the quality of the shoddy product after realizing its provenance, but not the “professionals” at The Washington Post! In fact, Farhi seemed to be bitterly clinging to the Russia-collusion scam as of a month ago, even after the Post begrudgingly corrected some of its fake news on the matter.
One citizen on social media replied to Farhi’s smug arrogance about the superiority of professional journalists, “The media’s track record in the last 5 years is like a prostitute’s track record on being a virgin.” A bit too kind, but the point is made.
As one of the exceedingly few “professionals” — to use Farhi’s parlance — to do actual journalism on this story and thereby debunk the information operation the Post pushed relentlessly for years, I have nothing but respect for the many “citizen journalists” who did the work corporate media refused to do. I frequently relied on them and their detailed research in the Herculean task of taking on the Post, The New York Times, CNN, and every other media outlet that participated in the intelligence agencies’ information operation against Americans.
Russell Brand har ret i, at medierne ikke ville dække de canadiske ‘Freedom Convoys’, der så ville dø ud, hvis ikke det havde været for de uafhængige medier. Som jeg skrev forleden, så er de traditionelle mediehuse gået fra at kæmpe i Højesteret, for friheden til at publicere, hvad de mener er i offentlighedens interesse uagtet hvad staten mener skal forblive hemmeligt. New York Times og derefter Washington Post havde ingen kvaler med at offentliggøre dele af The Pentagon Papers, fordi de dokumenterede, at staten løj om krigen i Vietnam. Forrige hjalp New York Times og Washington Post, efterretningsningsvæsenet med at spore Jack Teixeira, en whistleblower, der nøjagtig som Daniel Ellsberg i sin tid, der stjal og kopierede The Pentagon Papers, som viste at staten ved, at krigen i Ukraine reelt er tabt.
De professionelle journalisters arrogante konformitet kom ikke blot til udtryk med de mange bank, de fik af Trump. Hvem husker ikke Elon Musks møde med en selvretfærdig BBC reporter, Pierre Poliveivre der, gnaskende på et æble, beder en journalist uddybe sine floskler, eller Vivek Ramaswamy, der nægtede at tage specifikt afstand fra “white supremacy” da han ikke ville knæle for pressens religiøse dyrkelse af wokeismens katekismus.
“The MSM lies like it’s their profession” konstaterede Ramaswamy i et tweet og fortsatte “yet the abysmal failure of their business model suggests it’s not even in their best interest anymore.” Og så remsede han de seneste års store løgne op, som at Rusland havde skaffet Trump til magten, løgnen om Hunter Bidens computer, at Trump skulle have kaldt nazister for fine mennesker, at nogen havde hængt en galge op i en sort racerkørers garage, at musikeren og skuespilleren Jussie Smollett skulle være blevet overfaldet af Trump støtter osv. Og så var det han spurgte pressen om de egentlig selv troede på de løgne de spredte
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