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The Decline of the American Media IV

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Bamaro said:
Meanwhile, crickets from Fox about Kilmeade.
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The homeless don’t pay taxes and are a net drain on the resources of the government, so talking about killing them isn’t a big deal to Republicans/conservatives/Trumpers.

Once you start sending people to foreign prisons or deporting them to countries they’ve never lived, easing the suffering of the homeless through involuntary euthanasia becomes a palatable consideration - or at least one that doesn’t upset that particular constituency too much.
 
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Michael Wilbon:
“He (Bruce Pearl) had become a divisive person, it seems to me, intentionally. And I hope there was pressure to just get him out."

damn, I remember when Gregg Popovich and Steve Kerr were calling for gun control and something about “using a platform”, but Pearl is an unabashed supporter of Israel and all of a sudden Wilbon doesn’t want politics involved in the thing.

Or maybe Wilbon just hates Jews. That would be the assessment of a white man from the south in particular criticizing anyone not White, he’s a racist.
 
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selmaborntidefan said:
Michael Wilbon:
“He (Bruce Pearl) had become a divisive person, it seems to me, intentionally. And I hope there was pressure to just get him out."

damn, I remember when Gregg Popovich and Steve Kerr were calling for gun control and something about “using a platform”, but Pearl is an unabashed supporter of Israel and all of a sudden Wilbon doesn’t want politics involved in the thing.

Or maybe Wilbon just hates Jews. That would be the assessment of a white man from the south in particular criticizing anyone not White, he’s a racist.
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Yeah, I was actually watching the show when he said this and I was a bit taken back.
 
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Yeah, I was actually watching the show when he said this and I was a bit taken back.
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In my opinion, Wilbon (who I've generally always liked) gave up any credibility when I watched him admit when the OJ Simpson documentary series aired about ten years ago that he had celebrated the acquittal and even pretended that OJ was innocent, but he knew was guilty. (At least when I was 23 and saying, "Perot cost Bush the election," I honestly believed it to be true. I no longer do btw).

What does this tell me about a person who:
a) actually did this
b) admitted he did this

Wilbon was not some 22-year-old fresh out of college when it happened, he was six months older than Nicole Brown Simpson was. He was 36, old enough to know right from wrong and race cards from reality, but he opted for the former.
 
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thefederalist.com

Before Attack On ICE, NBC Ran ICE-Holds-Child-Hostage Hoax

One day before a shooter opened fire on an ICE vehicle in Dallas, NBC News falsely accused ICE agents of holding a 5-year-old girl hostage.
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Just 24 hours before a shooter opened fire on an ICE vehicle in Dallas, killing two and wounding a third, NBC News ran a hoax accusing ICE agents of holding hostage a 5-year-old girl in order to “pressure” her criminal suspect father to surrender.
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The story quickly fueled outrage, with figures like Rep. Ilhan Omar smearing ICE as “vile and beyond cruel.”

But the narrative peddled by NBC News collapsed under scrutiny. Lavietes was forced to update his piece and issue a correction for blatantly lying.
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And here we go again......

Adelita Grijalva wins US House special election in Arizona, delivering decisive signature for Epstein files push | CNN Politics

Yes, we have a Democrat replacing a Democrat. "Whoo boy, now we've got them, we have 218 signatures to......FORCE A VOTE on Epstein files...."

No, you don't really.
Or maybe you do.

But rest assured, some Republican is going to get threatened and back out.

Adelita Grijalva wins Arizona 7th special election to narrow GOP majority - The Washington Post

Headline:
"Democrats' further narrow GOP House majority with special election win"

Pardon me if this SOUNDS LIKE, "Wow, they flipped a seat!" Except they didn't, Adelita is replacing her dead daddy in a deep blue district.

"trimming a House majority that was already historically small..."

Again, I'm trying to figure out any actual MEANING from the headline. The GOP went into the night with 219 seats, they came out of the night with 219 seats. They still need 218 to pass something, and my suspicion is that a few of the "consciences" in the party will come around with threats (like "by the way, you should know YOUR NAME is in the files, too").


It's not that the story under the headline is wrong, it's the fact the headline is one of those "well, it's literally true but irrelevant".


WaPo is still covering politics like it's 1983, back when some Democrats and Republicans would actually vote for something the other party proposed.
 
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The Ellisons are creating an unprecedented media empire.

Journalists at CBS News reeled on Friday as they digested news reports that opinion journalist Bari Weiss, a fierce critic of the mainstream media, would become the editor in chief of the straitlaced legacy brand.

Two months earlier, there had been cautious optimism in the Midtown Manhattan newsroom, according to two CBS News staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private information. Movie producer David Ellison, son of software billionaire Larry Ellison, dropped by to introduce himself as the chief executive of Paramount Skydance, the company that now owned CBS after an $8 billion merger that promised new investment.

But the newsroom hasn’t heard directly from Ellison since that day, leaving many apprehensive about plans for the network, the two staffers said. The anxiety has been reinforced in recent weeks as details of Weiss’s likely hire — and Paramount Skydance’s $150 million acquisition of her online publication, the Free Press — leaked in media outlets ahead of internal confirmation.

The deal and new role for Weiss are the latest moves by David Ellison as he builds a media empire alongside his Silicon Valley tycoon father. Through pivotal deals negotiated or approved by President Donald Trump and his appointees in recent months, the Ellisons have assembled an unprecedented array of old and new media.

Larry Ellison, 81, is the second-richest person in the world and co-founder and chairman of tech company Oracle, which is set to own a piece of the U.S. spin-off of TikTok, according to two people familiar with the negotiations. David Ellison, 42, made blockbusters including “Top Gun: Maverick” at his Hollywood company Skydance before merging it with Paramount this summer, taking control of CBS and its other TV and movie franchises. His father provided financial backing for the deal.
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Its On A Slab said:
Walter Cronkite is rolling over in his grave. The destruction of a once proud news organization.

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The devolution of CBS News

A network once revered for fact-based reporting is embracing right-wing pseudo-journalism
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He sounds pretty angry about the (perceived) return of intellectual honesty to the newsroom. I wonder why? Weiss is often branded a conservative by the left, but she’s anything but. She is a center-left classical liberal who supports same-sex marriage, abortion, and more. She is a free speech advocate, saying all voices should be heard. It's a bit telling that some people are getting their shorts in a twist over this.

Do I think she will be successful? Well, that remains to be seen. I predict not, but I've been wrong before (shocker, I know.) If she can restore a spirit of curiosity, fairness, and intellectual diversity — if she can make CBS a place where Americans of all stripes believe they’ll get the full story, not just one side — she’ll have achieved something no one in broadcast news has managed in a generation.
 
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