CNN plans to lay off hundreds of employees Thursday as it refocuses the business around a global digital audience, according to people familiar with the matter.
The layoffs come as CNN is rearranging its linear TV lineup and building out digital subscription products. The cuts will help CNN lower production costs and consolidate teams, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss nonpublic changes.
h/t DS
There have been reports in recent weeks suggesting that there may be major changes coming to the White House press briefing room in a second Trump administration.
The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) generally creates the briefing room seating chart, which gives the front row to what most of us would call the “mainstream media,” such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and network news channels, most of which, if not all, are notoriously biased to the left. However, the new Trump administration may take the responsibility away from the WHCA and seemingly set the seating arrangements itself.
This reminds me a bit of when news station camera men fell into despair at the sight of reporters working with their own hand held models.
Panama City, FL – On Friday, a jury of six in Florida’s 14th Circuit Court in Bay County has found CNN liable for the defamation of Navy veteran Zachary Young and that he was entitled economic and emotional damages, a ruling that proved CNN was not worthy of their moniker “the most trusted name in news.” They also found that CNN’s reporters had demonstrated expressed malice, actual malice, and outrageous behavior, which opened the door for a massive punitive damages judgement.
If the state of the legacy media as 2025 begins were put to music, the only appropriate soundtrack would be the iconic theme from “Jaws.”
There’s blood in the journalistic water, and viewers and readers are fleeing the same way beachgoers did on Amity Island the moment they saw that ominous fin emerging from the sea.
Underscoring that visual, this week we’ve seen MSNBC president Rashida Jones running for the exit and the Washington Post making even more cuts to a staff that has shrunk almost as fast as its subscription base.
CNN’s stubbornly leftist journalists think they know why their viewers are abandoning ship in record numbers – they’re not going hard enough against Donald Trump anymore.
That is the suggestion from reporters who spoke anonymously to The Washington Post this week as the network recovered from some of its lowest ratings ever.
Insiders claim a decision to hold a town hall with the president-elect back in May 2023 upset staff and viewers, as did the decision not to fact check Trump during his debate earlier this year.
Is it the end of legacy media as we know it?
The speculation that Elon Musk will purchase MSNBC over the past weekend has reignited the discussion of the American public’s distrust of mainstream media.
It was bound to happen. Not a month has passed since the presidential election, but the Regime Media are back to pushing breathless variants of their failed “threat to democracy” narratives. This time, in regard to speculation that Elon Musk may purchase MSNBC.
Watch as (who else?) Brian Stelter comes on CNN and gives a masterclass in Regime Media projection …
MSNBC slashed star anchor Rachel Maddow’s annual salary by $5 million as the left-leaning network continues to reel from parent company Comcast’s decision to spin off its struggling cable properties, according to a report.
Maddow — who rakes in $30 million a year for hosting “The Rachel Maddow Show” just one day a week on Mondays — renegotiated for a $25 million salary for the next five years, the Ankler reported on Thursday.
“This is a difficult time and they needed to keep her,” one executive told the news site. “No one else can do what she does. You can’t build a brand like it overnight.”
When it comes to cable TV news ratings, it’s usually easy come, easy go. Some days you are up, and some days you are down. That’s the nature of the business. But what has happened to liberal-leftish MSNBC since Donald Trump’s election victory a few weeks ago is looking less like a rollercoaster ride, and more like a fall from an aeroplane without a parachute.
Heading into America’s election day, the mainstream media wrote repeatedly that the race was neck-and-neck, a dead heat. When Donald Trump won decisively it was another standout example – remember his 2016 win over Hillary Clinton? – of him making the American media wrong again.
For all the beatings Mr. Trump has laid on the Washington establishment, few can match the thrashing he has given the traditional media complex.
Panic engulfed MSNBC headquarters on Wednesday after parent company Comcast confirmed a massive spinoff of its cable properties — with a top executive even suggesting the left-leaning network may be forced to change its name.
MSNBC stars Rachel Maddow, Chris Jansing and Katy Tur joined a tense 10 a.m. meeting at 30 Rock in Midtown led by NBCUniversal chairman Mark Lazarus, who will lead the new company, sources told The Post.
Liberal legacy media outlets are attempting to pivot to the political centre amid declining public trust, shrinking audiences, and tightening margins.
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times announced that it is forming a new editorial board in an effort to win back trust. “When the President has won the vote of the majority of Americans then ALL voices must be heard,” Pat Soon-Shiong, the outlet’s owner, wrote. “I will work towards making our paper and media fair and balanced so that all voices are heard and we can respectfully exchange every American’s view, from left to right to the center.”
They couldn’t abide him.
And they made no secret of it.
The “they” here is the so-called “mainstream” media – aka in reality the liberal media.
“Him” of course is Donald Trump. That would now be President-elect Donald Trump. A president-elect who won his race in a landslide, winning both the Electoral College and, in a first for a GOP candidate since 2004, the national popular vote as well.
“I have one thing to say to Kamala supporters…
Stand back and stand by”
They’re gonna do an insurrection, aren’t they? pic.twitter.com/MWd2kGWWtk
— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 11, 2024
The establishment media’s control over framing the election narrative is “shattered,” Axios’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen acknowledged Monday.
The report confirms Gallup polling that shows Americans’ trust in the media is at an all-time low. For years, the media has pushed false narratives that involved Hunter Biden’s laptop story, Russian collusion, the source of the 2020 pandemic, the January 6 investigation, and numerous other hoaxes.
It appears the decision by many papers to abandon the tradition of candidate endorsement was guided at least in part by the market forces hammering the media.
Kamala alone is good reason to take a pass but some owners have decided that in a tough market it no longer makes sense to alienate a huge segment of the public by reporting your bias rather than the truth.
Jeff Bezos says yes: No One Trusts Journalists and It’s Journalist’s Fault
We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Thankfully The Star, a mouthpiece of the Liberal gov’t and the recipient of involuntary tax payer funding, explains that the Washington Post and LA Times are bending the knee in fear of TrumpHitler who surely will silence all critical media! Case closed. Science settled. You are Hitler.
Billionaire owners of Washington Post and L.A. Times are bending the knee to Donald Trump
… The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times — or more precisely the billionaire owners of those papers — announced late last week that they won’t endorse a candidate in the presidential election now only days away. Both organizations issued statements along the lines of “not telling our readers how to vote.” But it’s not much of a leap to conclude their owners are worried about retribution against their other business interests if they endorse Kamala Harris (as their editorial staffs wanted to do) and Donald Trump is elected.
Oh my … h/t DS
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in the media — such as newspapers, television and radio — first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so again last year.
For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. Another 33% of Americans express “not very much” confidence.
h/t DS
