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CNN bloodbath: Network fires Chris Cillizza, Alison Kosik, Alex Field, Martin Savidge and Robin Meade – AND scraps HLN’s live programming

The latest round of layoffs at CNN has hit some of the network’s biggest names.

Political analyst Chris Cillizza, 46, who has been covering national politics, the White House and Congress for the cable giant since 2017, after coming over to the network from The Washington Post, was among those who were let go this week, Variety reported.

Business correspondent Alison Kosik, 51, who covers the New York Stock Exchange and has been at the network since 2007 was nixed. She earns an average annual salary of between $100,000 and $145,143.

by Blazingcatfur•December 2, 2022December 1, 2022•0•The Media

Matt Taibbi, Douglas Murray Dominate Trust-in-Media Debate – Trucker Convoy featured prominently

Toronto — Conservative commentator Douglas Murray and veteran reporter Matt Taibbi soundly defeated their opponents in a Wednesday evening debate on the question of whether to trust the mainstream media, convincing a significant segment of the audience to abandon their faith in an institution they say is hopelessly compromised by bias.

… The Canadian trucker protests featured prominently in the debate. During Murray’s opening remarks, the British commentator and fellow National Review contributor, laid into Prime Minister Trudeau and Canadian media outlets for failing to challenge the government-approved narrative that the protests were organized by bigots of various stripes.

“The Canadian mainstream media acted as an amen chorus of the Canadian government,” Murray argued. “Now why is this is rancid? So utterly, utterly, rancid and corrupt? Because in this country your media–your mainstream media–is funded by the government.”

WOW!🔥 You will NEVER hear a more eloquent takedown of Canadian legacy media than this. pic.twitter.com/EVWdrnlewu

— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) December 1, 2022

CNN begins slashing jobs as Chris Licht cuts costs: report

CNN began a long-expected round of layoffs on Wednesday as president Chris Licht and other executives at WarnerBros. Discovery trim costs at the struggling cable news network.

Licht informed CNN employees of the cuts in a memo and acknowledged “it will be a difficult time for everyone” at the company.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2022November 30, 2022•0•The Media

STUDY: Broadcast Networks Bury FTX CEO’s Massive Donations to Dems

Sam Bankman-Fried, the embattled CEO of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was a massive donor to the Democratic Party. But you wouldn’t know it from the reporting on the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC), who have so far almost completely hidden that salient detail from their audiences.

by Blazingcatfur•November 17, 2022November 17, 2022•0•"Digital Currency", Crime, Democratic Party, The Media, The Media Lies

Do the Western media want World War 3?

Their rash response to the missile strike in Poland was reckless in the extreme.

There’s truth to the old adage about ‘the fog of war’. It really is difficult to grasp what is happening in the midst of a conflict. There is too much in play. Too much movement and action. It makes it difficult to see clearly. To make claims about what is happening in any given moment, with any degree of certainty, is often impossible. So anyone doing so should probably be treated with a fair bit of scepticism.

by Blazingcatfur•November 16, 2022November 16, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia", The Media

Six Reasons Corporate Media Failed to Frame MAGA for Paul Pelosi Incident

Watching the overpaid, blow-dried hoaxsters who run the corporate media haplessly attempt to frame Republicans for whatever happened to Paul Pelosi last week is like watching Lou Costello parallel park.

Oh, how I laugh and laugh and laugh…

by Blazingcatfur•November 3, 2022November 3, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Why the Legacy Media Is Panicked About Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

It has now been a week since Elon Musk took over Twitter, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth is still audible across the legacy media landscape. In one sense, that’s rather shocking: Why, precisely, should members of the media be so apoplectic about a billionaire taking over a social media company from other millionaires, pledging to loosen restrictions on dissemination of speech? In another sense, the outrage is perfectly predictable: The legacy media oligopoly is now under threat.

by Blazingcatfur•November 2, 2022November 2, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies, Twitter, Twitter is Evil

UH OH: CNN Boss Set to Enact LAYOFFS, Slash Costs to Save Struggling Network

In both a memo to staff and a story about the network on CNBC.com, CNN boss Chris Licht marked six months this week with the struggling liberal network by announcing he’s been tasked with cost cuts and layoffs as, according to CNBC, CNN’s profit “is set to drop blow $1 billion this year” and Warner Bros. Discovery is aiming to layoff 1,000 people from its 40,000-workforce.

In objectively welcome news, CNBC also revealed Licht will continue to move CNN back toward reality and away from what Licht called “the quick sugar high of ratings and outrage.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 29, 2022October 29, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

59% of voters think MSM is a “major threat” to Democracy

Fully 84% of registered voters named the Mainstream Media as a threat to Democracy. Nearly 60% of voters called the MSM a “major threat.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 20, 2022October 20, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Gallup: New low in media ‘trust’

The media apparently has no bottom in the free fall from its golden days decades ago.

The latest sign: Gallup today revealed that the percentage of Americans who have “no trust” in journalism outpaces a “great deal/fair amount” for the first time ever.

“Just 7% of Americans have ‘a great deal’ of trust and confidence in the media, and 27% have ‘a fair amount,” said Gallup in dishing up the depressing news for media outlets.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 18, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Tucker Carlson confirms that Kanye West is not crazy

Never judge a celebrity by how the media paints him

Tucker Carlson has tackled a question that has long puzzled Cockburn: is Kanye West crazy?

Ye has had his fair share of controversial moments: he appeared on a 2006 cover of Rolling Stone mimicking Jesus Christ with a crown of thorns. He infamously stormed the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards stage to tell Taylor Swift she didn’t deserve her award. For the past couple years, he’s been battling ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her family, during which time he also became religious, started hosting Sunday Services, and bought a ranch in Cody, Wyoming, which he tried to sell but then took off the market. Most recently, Ye incited establishment ire by wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt alongside conservative firebrand buddy Candace Owens at Paris Fashion Week.

by Blazingcatfur•October 9, 2022October 8, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Don Lemon is CNN’s resident dinosaur

The network moves on from its embarrassing partisan past, but can he?

Don Lemon is a dinosaur at CNN — and it shows.

Thanks to the network’s new CEO Chris Licht, who seems to be driven by the radical notion that gaining viewers is more important than virtue-signaling, the pendulum has shifted. There have been small glimpses of CNN’s move back to more straight-news-style programming.

by Blazingcatfur•October 2, 2022October 2, 2022•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Nets Yawn at Bloody Violence in Soros-Backed DA’s Philly

Another day, another spasm of violence in Philadelphia, a major city where George Soros spent $1.7 million to elect far-left Democrat District Attorney Larry Krasner. Yet, typically, the networks on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning mostly ignored the shooting of five teenagers at a local Philadelphia high school.

by Blazingcatfur•September 28, 2022September 28, 2022•0•The Media

Understanding Germany’s complex public broadcasting system

The scandal around Patricia Schlesinger, former head of Berlin-based broadcaster RBB, has refocused attention on Germany’s complicated network of public broadcasters. Here’s how they’re organized.

It’s much worse than the pic shows. Canada seems bent on a similar set up.

But there are indeed a relatively large number of public broadcasters in Germany, including 21 TV channels and as many as 83 radio stations, funded mainly through the Rundfunkbeitrag levy (literally “broadcast contribution”). Currently set at €18.36 ($18.83) per month, each household in Germany is obliged to pay this fee, which brings in over €8 billion a year. While Deutsche Welle is also publicly funded, its budget comes directly from the federal government, rather than the Rundfunkbeitrag.

It’s an interesting read. Attempts to defund Germany’s media octopus have been dismissed as populist by “journalists.”