CNN ratings sink to all-time low in vital demographic for advertisers — as left-leaning networks plummet after Trump win https://nypost.com/2024/12/18/media...eft-leaning-networks-plummet-after-trump-win/ excerpt: The cable news pioneer — which is in the midst of a major overhaul that will reportedly include mass layoffs — averaged 92,000 total day viewers in the key 25-to-54-year-old demo this year, a 1% drop from the previous rock bottom of 94,000 it notched last year, according to Nielsen data first reported by Mediaite. more at the link
Legacy media will be up for a fire sale soon because they’re always completely worthless with their fake news. Elon should buy them all on the cheap and hire real journalists for a change.
@CrixusTheUndefeatedGaul Even in Syria they know that dumb woke white people couldn’t tell the difference between prisoners and Assad goons. CNN is known for suckers world wide
MSNBC reportedly offers Joy Reid, Stephanie Ruhle pay cuts to stay in anchor chairs https://nypost.com/2024/12/19/media/msnbc-tells-joy-reid-stephanie-ruhle-to-take-pay-cuts-report/
Don’t Expect Media Apologies—Ever—for the Duke Lacrosse Case The journalists and outlets that helped mobilize the hysteria back in 2006 shrug at Crystal Mangum’s belated admission of the obvious: it was all lies. https://www.city-journal.org/article/dont-expect-media-apologies-ever-for-the-duke-lacrosse-case
CBS News journalist says most underreported 2024 story was Biden’s ‘obvious cognitive decline’ https://nypost.com/2024/12/30/us-ne...eported-2024-story-was-bidens-mental-fitness/
Late-night TV, SNL’s anti-Trump routines go unheeded: ‘Well, f—! It happened again’ https://nypost.com/2024/12/27/media/late-night-tv-snls-anti-trump-routines-go-unheeded/ excerpt: According to a recent study from the media watchdog group Media Research Center, nearly all the political jokes told on each of the five major TV late-night shows at the height of the presidential campaign were anti-Trump. These shows included Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” and NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” The study, published late October, found that out of the 1,463 jokes about both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris on these five shows from September 3 through October 25, 1,428 of the jokes were targeted at Donald Trump. As MRC analyst Alex Christy noted in his report, “That’s a whopping 40:1 ratio or almost 98 percent to 2 percent.” more at the link
That makes a lot of sense. DT is low hanging fruit for those that are in the laughing and joke business. He is far more ripe to be mocked at about 40:1 ratio.
Let's look at the media that got it wrong in some recent stories. Hours after a U.S. Army veteran plowed a truck into a crowd of revelers celebrating New Year’s on New Orleans’s Bourbon Street, leaving 14 dead and dozens injured, Fox News reported that the terror suspect’s vehicle was spotted crossing the U.S.-Mexico border just two days prior. The conservative cable giant’s suggestion that the horrific tragedy may have been linked to migrants entering the United States sparked an immediate freakout from prominent conservatives — and likely led to President-elect Donald Trump’s initial statement on the mass casualty event that tied immigration to the terror attack. While the incoming president insisted he’d been proven right that “the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country,” Fox News soon walked back much of its reporting, noting that the vehicle had been spotted near the border in November rather than late-December and that it didn’t appear the suspect was the driver in that instance. https://www.the-independent.com/new...ews-new-orleans-attack-migrants-b2672944.html The media got it wrong big time. Social media and Trump did worse. People on here spread the misinformation via MAGA social media. It isn't unusual for @conquistador#11 to end up with egg on his face, but it is amusing that others don't trust mainstream media, and then post social media source after social media source that is shown to be wrong time and time again, and don't think twice about it. The irony is ramped up when they accuse others of being sheep and blindly following media stories.
CNN to shift Wolf Blitzer to mornings in massive shakeup at embattled network: report https://nypost.com/2025/01/16/media...ornings-in-massive-shakeup-at-network-report/ excerpt: Ratings-challenged CNN will reportedly move veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer to a new slot in the mornings as part of a wider reshuffle by the embattled cable news pioneer’s boss Mark Thompson. The 76-year-old Blitzer, one of the network’s longest-tenured anchors and current host of “The Situation Room” at 6 p.m., will be teamed with Pamela Brown on a new morning show, sources told Status newsletter on Thursday. The shakeup could also include frequent Donald Trump antagonist Jim Acosta being bounced as anchor of “CNN Newsroom” at 10 a.m., the sources said. more at the link
lol, good luck with that The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’ This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/business/media/the-washington-post-new-mission.html excerpt: Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has made comments in line with the new mission statement in conversations with Post journalists in recent years, according to two people familiar with those discussions. Mr. Bezos has expressed hopes that The Post would be read by more blue-collar Americans who live outside coastal cities, mentioning people like firefighters in Cleveland. He has also said that he is interested in expanding The Post’s audience among conservatives, the people said. The Post has already begun to consider ways to sharply increase the amount of opinion commentary published on its website, according to two people with knowledge of the talks. An adviser to The Post, Lippe Oosterhof, has conducted brainstorming sessions about a new initiative that would make it easier to receive and publish opinion writing from outside contributors. The Post has also tried to draw a sharper distinction between its news and opinion content. A spokesman for Mr. Bezos did not respond to a request for comment. more at the link
commentary The Post Adopts a New Mission Statement https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/01/16/the-post-adopts-a-new-mission-statement-n3798878 excerpt: Will this new approach work? I'm not convinced. I started reading the Post in the early 90s when I lived in the Washington, DC area. It was always the hometown paper for elected Democrats in Washington. It was always biased and seeming proud of that. So announcing the slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" at the start of the Trump administration in 2017 really fit. It was a progressive talking point turned corporate mission statement. It was also absurdly self-important and over-dramatic. We all knew who the darkness represented and the Post was going to act as a light-bringer or some such nonsense. Slate mocked it at the time suggesting it would make a pretty good title for a metal album along with Seasons in the Abyss by Slayer and Peace Sells...but Who's Buying by Megadeth. Mostly the slogan marked the paper as the rallying point for angry liberals eager to join the resistance. But here we are 8 years later and the wind has really gone out of the sails of that kind of earnest progressivism. Joe Biden's term was a failure in too many ways and Trump's 2024 win was too convincing for Resistance 2.0 to look like anything but doubling down on stupid. more at the link
Cartoonist Darrin Bell arrested on child p*rnography charges Police said some of the material owned and controlled by Bell was generated by artificial intelligence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...arrin-bell-cartoons-child-p*rnography-arrest/ excerpt: Bell got his start at the University of California at Berkeley, where he drew cartoons for the school’s newspaper, the Daily Californian. He became the first Black journalist to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 2019. His winning cartoons that year “took on issues affecting disenfranchised communities, calling out lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration,” according to the Pulitzer Prizes. more at the link
CNN wants to exile Jim Acosta’s show to the ‘Siberia of television news’ to stop him annoying Trump https://nypost.com/2025/01/17/media...-siberia-of-tv-news-to-throw-a-bone-to-trump/ excerpt: CNN is apparently plotting to exile star anchor Jim Acosta — a longtime antagonist of President-elect Donald Trump — to the “Siberia of television news” in a bid to “throw a bone” to the incoming commander-in-chief, according to a former colleague. The network’s boss, Mark Thompson, this week called in Acosta to propose shifting his show, “CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta,” from 10 a.m. to the graveyard midnight slot, ex-CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy reported in his Status News newsletter. “The move would effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news,” Darcy wrote. Acosta was caught “off guard,” Darcy said — with the anchor later using his airtime for some self-promotion to send a message to Trump to go easier on journalists. more at the link
CNN boss Mark Thompson told Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper and 100 other journalists not to ‘express outrage’ during Trump inauguration: report https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/media/cnns-on-air-talent-warned-not-to-express-outrage-at-trump/ excerpt: CNN boss Mark Thompson told more than 100 journalists and top on-air talent including Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper that they ought to avoid “pre-judging” President-elect Donald Trump while cautioning them “against expressing any outrage of their own” during the inauguration, according to a report. Thompson convened a virtual editorial meeting Sunday that included Tapper, Cooper and scores of other senior news personalities to discuss CNN’s coverage of the inaugural ceremonies that took place the next day in Washington, DC, according to the Status newsletter. During the meeting, Thompson “made it clear that he did not want the coverage to relitigate the past,” according to Status reporter Oliver Darcy — an allusion to CNN’s historically hostile relationship with Trump. Thompson asked his charges to avoid editorializing as well as to steer coverage away from focusing on Trump’s legal problems, including convictions for falsifying business documents related to the alleged Stormy Daniels “hush money” payment, according to the report. Instead, he urged CNN staffers to focus on Trump’s second term and to be “open-minded” about the next four years, according to Status. A CNN spokesperson declined to comment. more at the link
