Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Print Media, Part XIII

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As we watch the Pravda electronic media gasping it's last breaths and with a total lack of self reflection challenging alternative media types by asking if they think they're real journalists. Anyone who proclaims they're from the Pravda media, either electronic or print, is in effect publicly stating:

 

"I'm a corrupt lying brain damaged puppet, which is why for four years I not only covered up Joe Biden's dementia, I vehemently denied it existed.  Also, I arrogantly, and smugly ridiculed any who dared to question it, and I did it with a smirk!"

 

But the left will always be the left, and they're now trying to rewrite and twist the history of the Biden presidency, but it just ain't playing well.  There's a new sheriff in town, and things are changing, and he's gonna make-em pay!

 

Trump is suing CBS for $20 billion over an interview with Kamala Harris that he claims was deceptively edited. CNN reports that execs at Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, have discussed a settlement in hopes of winning FCC approval for a proposed merger with Skydance Media, but the court battle is ongoing for now. (More 60 Minutes stories.)

 

Finally an adult has decided it's time for 60 minutes to start dealing in facts, not opinions.   The result?  The Executive Producer Resigns whining.  A producer who John Nolte called a documented serial liar.  And Nolte goes on the list the number of names that are crashing or out the door, and it's impressive saying:

 

And so, we can now add Bill Owens to our ever-growing list of Regime Media elites who have committed career suicide or just plain given up due to Trump Derangement Syndrome — Yes, 20 self-deportations:

1. Ruth Marcus – Washington Post columnist resigns.
2. 538 – Disney/ABC’s wildly biased polling site shutters.
3. Paul Krugman – Always wrong New York Times columnist forced out.
4. Jim Acosta – CNN anchor forced out.
5. Norah O’Donnell – Failed CBS anchor out.
6. Chuck Todd – NBC’s former Meet the Press host DEI’d out.
7. Andrea Mitchell – NBC harridan ages out of job.
8. Chris Wallace – Son of Someone out at CNN.
9. Joy Reid – Racist MSNBC anchor too racist for MSNBC. Fired.
10. Neil Cavuto – Fox News anchor scurries away.
11. Alex Wagner – Demoted at MSNBC.
12. Ayman Mohyeldin – Lost MSNBC show.
13. Olivia Nuzzi – Out at New York Mag for allegedly stalking RFK Jr.
14. Katie Phang – Lost MSNBC show.
15. Jonathan Capehart – Lost MSNBC show. Steps down from Washington Post editorial board.
16. Lester Holt – Out as NBC Nightly News anchor.
17. One-third of New York Times Editorial Board – Say, bye.
18. Eugene Robinson – Washington Post columnist quits in snit.
19. Ryan Lizza – Scurries to Substack over credible misconduct allegations.
20. Bill Owens —60 Minutes chief resigns in crybaby disgrace.

The New York Times, with "All the News That's Fit to Print" motto, commonly called 'The Gray Lady", is not a lady, but a hag, and will always be the journalistic sewer it has been for the entire 20th century, and it will never change, and is still a hag.  

1.  Report: NYT Journalist Has Regrets over Kavanaugh Coverage
2. Charles Blow, Journalism’s Clunkiest DIE Hire, Out at the New York Times
3.  NYT piece is oozing with fear.
4.  New York Magazine crops black people out of Trump inauguration party photo, then reports "almost everyone is white"

On the other hand the L.A. Times heard the alarm clock and now they're really "woke". Woke up that is.  Legacy media giant reportedly shifting resources from left-wing paper to promote…a conservative press.  The publisher refused to allow his newspaper.... remember it's his newspaper.... to endorse Kamala Harris.  Why? Because it was clear she was in no way qualified to be President of the United State and he'd had enough, and demanded they print news, not their opinions.  And many quit.  

But the Washington Post is the best story regarding that kind of transformation.  

• So, is Jeff Bezos really seeing the light? - Suddenly, the post-Trump Post will turn its opinions page toward ‘personal liberties’ and ‘free markets.’  Speaking of “free markets,” some outlets (WaPo, MSNBC, L.A. Times, etc.) are shelving their most radical leftists in favor of more consumer-friendly material.  While I don’t believe for a minute that Jeff Bezos has had a come-to-Jesus, road-to-Damascus epiphany, I do believe that he’s recognized that his paper’s hard-left whackadoodle opinions ran afoul of normal, everyday Americans, and therefore posed a long-term drag on his paper’s fortunes.

Bezos is reshaping the paper's opinion section, and the editor quit, and staff reject liberty and free markets. Someone named Jen Rubin left WaPo in order to make her living continuing to belittling Trump, and is being joined by other WaPo staff.  People  I never heard of, just like Ruth Marcus.   I'm betting the vast majority of America never heard of any of them.   Well, good luck with that, if WaPo couldn't make money spewing out their views, why would they think they can make money away from WaPo spewing out their views?   Perhaps they need to start practicing saying, "Welcome to McDonalds."

So, is Jeff Bezos really seeing the light? - Suddenly, the post-Trump Post will turn its opinions page toward ‘personal liberties’ and ‘free markets.’  Speaking of “free markets,” some outlets (WaPo, MSNBC, L.A. Times, etc.) are shelving their most radical leftists in favor of more consumer-friendly material.  While I don’t believe for a minute that Jeff Bezos has had a come-to-Jesus, road-to-Damascus epiphany, I do believe that he’s recognized that his paper’s hard-left whackadoodle opinions ran afoul of normal, everyday Americans, and therefore posed a long-term drag on his paper’s fortunes.

Of course the staff was outraged, who does he think he is?  Well, “there is nothing less tolerant than a leftist scorned.” 

Here’s my take regarding his road to Damascus conversion. Believe it or not, I think this a schadenfreude moment for Bezos.  He’s a nerd who never dreamed of ever being a major center of attention in the world, and he likes it. So, he’s not going to do anything that will diminish that.  He has new hottie on his arm he’s calling his fiance, working out to try and have a new look, and now a new position at the table that affirms he's important.  

 

I have no doubt, given the self righteous arrogance leftists spewed out over all this, he was smugly looked down on by the hired help. He knew it!  He resented it!  And now he’s made it clear: They’re the nobodies. They’re just hired help, and they don’t count!  Only he counts, and that’s what he really believes in.  My view of Bezos?   You wouldn’t want to go into battle with Bezos, or for Bezos.  

 

Final thought.  No matter what's unfolding now, know the corporate media will never reform, no matter what shifts they may be taking now.  The Pravda media is arrogant, overpaid, under smart, and they lie constantly!   That's the history of the media from time immemorial. They have history, and it's ugly.   One has to wonder if the Pravda media even sane?   Perhaps we should ask if they're not only insane, but are they treasonous?  

 

 "Treason is an ugly word and an even uglier crime. In simple language treason is the act of betraying one’s country to those who would destroy it and enslave its people. This definition is so simple that leftwing sophisticated journalists sneer at it. To them treason is merely relative with one country’s traitor being another country’s hero. This is the appalling moral and intellectual state of current Western journalism. The moral rot runs so deep that one despairs of living long enough to see any improvement." Gerard Jackson 

Historically, that's the centuries long foundationally social paradigm of the media at it's core, and any improvement is merely a temporary blip on the radar.  It's never gonna change.