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Tucker Carlson’s Vulgar, Offensive Messages About Colleagues Helped Seal His Fate at Fox News

Several weeks ago, as Fox News lawyers prepared for a courtroom showdown with Dominion Voting Systems, they presented Tucker Carlson with what they thought was good news: They had persuaded the court to redact from a legal filing the time he called a senior Fox News executive the c-word, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Carlson, Fox News’s most-watched prime-time host, wasn’t impressed. He told his colleagues that he wanted the world to know what he had said about the executive in a private message, the people said. Mr. Carlson said comments he made about former President Donald Trump—“I hate him passionately”—that were in the court documents were said during a momentary spasm of anger, while his dislike of this executive was deep and enduring.

by Blazingcatfur•April 27, 2023April 27, 2023•0•The Media

Fox News ‘Is Dead,’ and Tucker Carlson Is Already Living Large With a Job Offer

Fox News “is dead,” and Tucker Carlson already has his first job offer. It came within hours of the shocking announcement that he and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation were “parting ways.” Who took the biggest hit? It looks like Fox News has.

by Blazingcatfur•April 26, 2023April 26, 2023•0•The Media

Fox “Parts Ways” with Tucker Carlson

Recent highlights of Carlson’s career with Fox News included interviewing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, highlighting the damage done to young people by transgender ideology, and documenting the dangers of plastics.

A week after Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit against it by an electronic voting machine company, the right-wing news outlet and its top-rated host, Tucker Carlson have “agreed to part ways.”

Carlson, who hosted “Tucker Carlson Tonight” at 8 p.m. on weeknights, broadcast his final show on April 21st, Fox News said in a statement, and that “Fox News Tonight” will air live with rotating hosts in its place.

by Blazingcatfur•April 26, 2023April 25, 2023•0•The Media

Is This the End of Corporate Media?

Fox News’ dumping of Tucker Carlson probably ends an era in cable news.

As a business proposition, Monday morning’s earth-shattering announcement that Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News comes off as the dumbest thing since, well…

Maybe tying Bud Light’s brand to a transgender attention grabber? I dunno.

With CNN’s alleged rebranding to be practicioners of “journalism” maybe both they and Fox are signaling they hope to capture the political middle. If that middle even exists any longer.

by Blazingcatfur•April 25, 2023April 25, 2023•0•The Media

On Tucker Carlson

Everybody is up in arms about Tucker Carlson’s and Fox News’ split.

Lots of rumors regarding why it happened are floating around, and as with all breaking news stories you should wait for a bit before you trust anything anybody says. “Inside sources” or outright speculations are unreliable. Was it Dominion? Was it Tucker wanting to defend himself? Was it something else?

by Blazingcatfur•April 24, 2023April 24, 2023•0•The Media

The Death of BuzzFeed News Was a Facebook Murder-Suicide

Online media companies got exactly what they said they wanted.

BuzzFeed News is closing up shop. Web visitors can still find all the quizzes and listicles they have come to love—those exist on the nonnews side of BuzzFeed—but the journalism division is shuttering.

The death of BuzzFeed News marks the definitive endpoint of a certain form of social media–driven, millennial-centric journalism; as such, it is being eulogized by many former contributors, including Charlie Warzel, who correctly observes that “The Internet of the 2010s Ended Today.” Ben Smith, the former editor in chief of BuzzFeed News who infamously published the Steele dossier—a substantially discredited intelligence document that sought to tie former President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin—and current Semafor editor in chief lays the blame at the feet of social media. BuzzFeed News‘ doom was at hand, he writes, “when consumers found their Facebook feeds toxic, not delightful; when platforms decided news was poison; and when Facebook, Twitter, and the rest simply stopped distributing links to websites.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 24, 2023April 23, 2023•0•The Media

Taibbi: Media Ignoring Developments on Hunter Laptop Letter Shows We‘re Becoming Like USSR Where Media ‘all Lies‘ with ‘No Real News‘

On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” journalist Matt Taibbi stated that the lack of mainstream media coverage of the “massive story of national consequence” of former acting CIA Director Michael Morell’s role in the letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian misinformation is an example of how “we’re starting to come to” the “same situation” as in the Soviet Union where “nobody read the newspapers because it was all lies and there was no real news in [them].”

by Blazingcatfur•April 23, 2023April 23, 2023•0•"Biden Family Sleaze", The Media, The Media Lies

The Media Industry Destroyed BuzzFeed News after BuzzFeed News Helped Destroy the Media Industry

Yesterday morning, BuzzFeed announced that it was shuttering BuzzFeed News, its journalistic arm. Whatever employees of the news division remain after layoffs will be resorbed into the otherwise clickbait-driven site (presumably to be later replaced by an improved ChatGPT algorithm). This was an occasion for wistful reflection on the left and among mainstream-media journalists/academics (but, as the old joke goes, I repeat myself), indifference among the masses (“What, the cat-meme listicle site? They had a news division?”), and grimly smug amusement on the right, whose denizens have long regarded BuzzFeed as the original bad actor in what became “Russiagate.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 22, 2023April 21, 2023•0•The Media

BuzzFeed News shuts down as parent company lays off 15% of staffers

BuzzFeed News is has published its last listicle.

The parent company of the site that took the news business by storm in the early 2010s and also published the now-debunked Steele Dossier is being shut down, according to a memo from BuzzFeed Inc. CEO Jonah Peretti on Thursday

by Blazingcatfur•April 20, 2023April 20, 2023•0•The Media

Elon Musk’s Twitter Labels NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media’

Elon Musk’s Twitter finally confirmed what the Media Research Center has been saying for years: National Public Radio is nothing but state propaganda.

Twitter slapped a “state-affiliated media” label on NPR’s account. Musk responded to conservative personality Benny Johnson celebrating that Twitter tore off NPR’s fake veneer of objective journalism. “Seems accurate,” Musk tweeted. MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider took a blowtorch to NPR following the news.

by Blazingcatfur•April 5, 2023April 5, 2023•0•The Media

Measuring the Canadian news media’s great awokening

… Terms displaying the starkest increase in prominence between 2010 and 2021 are those relating to gender-identity prejudice, which saw a staggering 2,285 per cent increase. In contrast, terms referring to sexual orientation prejudice have actually mildly decreased in prevalence since their 2011 peak. Terms referring to sexism or Islamophobia peaked near the middle of the decade, while others, like racism or transphobia, seem to have peaked later in the decade. Notably, references to antisemitism do not display a clear upwards post-2010 trend.

Different but as nutty as the press anywhere.

by Blazingcatfur•March 21, 2023March 21, 2023•0•The Media, The Media Lies, The Media's Preferred Narrative

20 Years Later: The Truth About the Media and the Iraq War

Generally speaking, conservative critics want the news media to be fact-based and refrain from skewing their coverage to favor the left. Liberal media critics want the media to throw out such old-fashioned ideas, and focus only on the “correct” side of a debate, so audiences aren’t confused by facts or opinions that might lead them to a “wrong” conclusion.

by Blazingcatfur•March 19, 2023March 19, 2023•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Nets Shamed into Rediscovering Ohio Train Derailment Fallout After MRC Study

On Tuesday, NewsBusters reported that the broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC had abandoned the environmental fallout from the February 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio on their flagship morning and evening shows with zero seconds on ABC and only a minute and 42 seconds on CBS and NBC after an evacuation order was lifted on February 8.

by Blazingcatfur•February 15, 2023February 15, 2023•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Study shows ‘striking’ number who believe news misinforms

NEW YORK (AP) — Half of Americans in a recent survey indicated they believe national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform or persuade the public to adopt a particular point of view through their reporting.

The survey, released Wednesday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation, goes beyond others that have shown a low level of trust in the media to the startling point where many believe there is an intent to deceive.

Asked whether they agreed with the statement that national news organizations do not intend to mislead, 50% said they disagreed. Only 25% agreed, the study found.

by Blazingcatfur•February 15, 2023February 15, 2023•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Startup aimed to reshape media – and learned ‘news is hard’ the hard way

Two-year-old Canadian local news startup had heady plans when founded, but now trims jobs while execs snipe at workers on Twitter

Nearly two years ago, a journalism startup made bold promises to reshape community news in Canada, announcing plans to hire more than 200 journalists and open 50 new publications across the country.

But this month, as they culled nearly half the staff from their most successful publication, executives from the Overstory media group admitted that – despite the cascade of recent failures across the industry – they had thought turning a profit in local journalism would be “a lot simpler”. The job cuts have raised larger questions over the company’s future, and about that of alternative models of experimental journalism.

Anyone ever hear of this company?

by Blazingcatfur•February 15, 2023February 14, 2023•0•Canada, The Media, WTF?