Whereupon We Pontificate About Poor Media Outlet Choices

Danspartan · May 28, 2024, 9:53pm

What in the name of Soul Man is this?

https://x.com/forstersam/status/1795492082636795958?s=46

Danspartan · May 29, 2024, 3:05am

https://x.com/michaelharriot/status/1795646218342924583?s=46

MrWookie · May 29, 2024, 5:00pm

He’s not even original:

goofy · May 31, 2024, 12:37am

goofy · June 3, 2024, 5:48pm

(the pandemic probably did not start in a lab)

Danspartan · June 3, 2024, 6:08pm

Jfc

Surf · June 3, 2024, 6:29pm

I gave up on trying to keep track of all the Covid personalities years ago and seems like she currently employed by what I assume is a quite prestigious institution that knew about her Covid stuff for years. Makes me wonder what the deal is, she must not be some complete whacko

goofy · June 3, 2024, 6:42pm

McTrollson · June 5, 2024, 3:11am

kerowo · June 5, 2024, 1:48pm

There are people out there doing shitty photo collages for pennies to put in the Getty image library? It is really too easy for us to get food as a society…

McTrollson · June 5, 2024, 1:57pm

We’re lucky the NYT isn’t using AI art.

Danspartan · June 5, 2024, 6:26pm

Have not read by blue twitter assures me that sources are 100% republican and that Kevin McCarthy came out of some of things meetings strongly praising Bidens intellect.

So IDK

We do have bond villains running a lot of our media.

Danspartan · June 5, 2024, 6:57pm

https://x.com/lachcartwright/status/1798001407045652612?s=46

https://x.com/goangelo/status/1798349957726146739?s=46

McTrollson · June 6, 2024, 4:30am

Not a single op-ed page will question if Trump is mentally fit for office.

https://x.com/drvolts/status/1798472050463703525

goofy · June 6, 2024, 8:14pm

The Brits aren’t okay, and Bezos has given them the green light to fuck up the Washington Post in their own image:

Well hey at least it’s just this guy right?

Lewis has now named one of his former colleagues at the Telegraph who helped him land a major — and controversial — scoop to lead the Post’s primary news reporting. That’s Rob Winnett, the Telegraph Media Group’s deputy editor who, like Lewis, is British.

goofy · June 7, 2024, 6:34pm

More on the new Post guy, from the Post:

Post publisher draws more scrutiny after newsroom shake-up (gift link)

On Wednesday, the New York Times first reported a tense meeting in May between [new Tory publisher & CEO Will] Lewis and [ousted/suddenly departed editor Sally] Buzbee related to The Post’s plans for a story about a long-running civil case brought by Prince Harry and others regarding a phone-hacking scheme at some of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids, where Lewis once worked.

The Post has confirmed that account with two people familiar with the meeting, which Buzbee described at the time to multiple people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive conversation.

Lewis told Buzbee that the story — about a judge’s decision whether to include Murdoch executives, including Lewis, in the case as individuals accused of covering up evidence — did not warrant coverage and that publishing it represented a lapse in judgment, these people said.

The Post published its story, but Buzbee was concerned about the tenor of their exchange. Buzbee had a similar exchange with Lewis in March over a previous story about the case, another person said.

The other press account came from NPR media reporter David Folkenflik, who published a story Thursday describing his experience with Lewis: After being named The Post’s next publisher, but before his first day on the job, Lewis “repeatedly — and heatedly” offered to give Folkenflik an exclusive interview about The Post’s future, in exchange for him dropping a story about new court documents in the phone-hacking case. He refused.

In his email to The Post, Lewis called Folkenflik — who published a book in 2013 on Rupert Murdoch’s media empire — “an activist, not a journalist.” Lewis added: “I had an off the record conversation with him before I joined you at The Post and some six months later he has dusted it down, and made up some excuse to make a story of a non-story.”
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Many in The Post newsroom found the accounts dismaying. A publisher and CEO oversees the entirety of a newspaper but traditionally does not direct or oversee decisions about what to report.

It is considered a third rail in journalism for business-side leaders to intervene or attempt to influence coverage in their own publications, particularly when it concerns them and their own interests, said Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bold move for this dipshit exec who cut his teeth invading Brits’ privacy to try disparaging actual journalists, let’s see how it works out for him

McTrollson · June 8, 2024, 2:15am

Fuck man, at least the Post was a kinda sorta serious paper. Are we basically finished with legacy journalism now? Is On The Media the only establishment still doing it?

pvn · June 8, 2024, 2:17am

https://twitter.com/lawofruby/status/1799175598306136342

Danspartan · June 8, 2024, 2:19am

And he’s a complete shitposter. Nothing to see here.

Of course Fox and everyone to the right will play this out for a couple of weeks. At least.

NYT and WaPo opinion pieces in by Sunday.

Melkerson · June 8, 2024, 2:28am

Someone want to ELI5 this for me?