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

 By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: My Media Commentaries

This this series will continue focusing on the individual media entities based on the articles I've been saving for some time.  The amount of information I've stored on CNN and MSNBC is so large they will be featured separately.  Other's will be featured together,  such as the Associated Press, CBS, and NBC.  

Let's start with the AP 

 

These media elites are outraged that Trump has officially banned the AP from Air Force One and the Oval Office, and they're calling for boycotts of Trump in support of AP’s speech codes, and Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.  I think that's loony, but, nothing as loony as all the stuff Biden did.  They just don't get it, they're toast, and Trump doesn't care what they think or say.  And much of what they say is contemptible, such as their headline over the murder of Israeli hostages.  Hamas murdered Shiri Bibas and her two children, paraded their coffins through the streets to cheering crowds and AP's take.  "They died in captivity".  Absolutely vile and contemptible. 

They complain they're being silenced, but as Jack Hellner points out they, along with other media nitwits, should look in the mirror when they complain about being silenced.  They're not being silenced as they've done to so many others in the past.  They can say and print whatever they please, they just don't have a "right" to have access to the White House, and now, a  federal judge agrees with the President.

While claiming to be the source of truth, justice, and free speech, implying they're being kicked to the curb will prevent freedom of the press, and impose censorship, in reality, AP has been just as vile as all the rest of the Pravda media.  They specialize in twisting words and definitions in more corrupt ways than seems possible, and they have what they call a "stylebook" that helps them to do it.  

The AP is even more hypocritical for accusing the Trump administration of controlling language when its stylebook notoriously adopted leftist neologisms and politically correct euphemisms that everyone in certain professions was forced to use. The AP stylebook banned the use of illegal alien because “many immigrants and migrants have some sort of documents, but not the necessary ones.” That’s coming from the same organization which complains about calling a body the Gulf of America. The AP has no leg to stand on, no defense and no shame.

CBS

If you think the 30 million settlement with NBC (we'll come back to that) is huge, try this.  CBS is being sued for $10 Billion Lawsuit by Trump For Deceptively Editing ’60 Minutes’ Interview with Kamala Harris, and they're wanting to settle.    

• Nolte: CBS Considers Settling Trump’s Election Interference Lawsuit Against ’60 Minutes’

And this doesn't appear to be an anomaly.  This kind of corruption seems to be standard operating procedure at CBS.

• Disgraced ’60 Minutes’ Misleads Viewers on USAID Staff Reductions - Sunday’s episode of the disgraced 60 Minutes from far-left CBS News worked overtime to mislead its gullible viewers about the recent layoffs at USAID, a left-wing slush fund paid for with about $40 billion taxpayer dollars each year.  Despite the U.S. Senate’s previous good-faith attempts to discover where all that money went, the USAID bureaucrats stalled and stalled. No one could find out how those billions were being spent, which was the whole point. What we had was an unaccountable federal agency spending billions with no oversight or accountability.

Margaret Brennan scolded Marco Rubio on free speech suggesting that's what caused the Holocaust.  Apparently she didn't get the memo, there was no free speech in Nazi Germany. As Mark Tapson stated her thinking amounts to “One of the most deranged analogies ever.”  And she kept doubling down with her nonsense in spite of a major kickback from the public who attacked her factually and historically.  The fact is, ya just can't fix stupid.

• Margaret Brennan’s Face-Plant on Free Speech: Welcome to Face the Nonsense - 

Here’s the reality. In times past she would have gotten away with her ignorance because so many interviewees were afraid to attack their stupidity. But those days are over, and that started with Newt Gengrich when he was running for President in 2012 and during the debates he went after the “moderators” and made them look ridiculous…. and all of a sudden…. bells went on in the heads of conservative politicians, and that mentality has only grown as the talking heads became even less capable.  Make no mistake, most of these talking heads are not that smart, and they certainly not that knowledgeable, their really big concern is if they have their make up on, all the other stuff is handed to them my off screen lackeys, who are just as dumb. Except for The View…. even their lackeys aren’t that stupid.  

 

The Global Elites are at war to prevent free speech with the support of all the Pravda media networks, and the European powers, the only problem they have is the United States Constitution.  That stands in the way of making that international law. 

 

CBS is a disaster.  They're ratings are dropping, and somehow they think by changing one far left talking head with other far left talking heads they can turn that around.  As one producer notes, “They took the ‘news’ out of the ‘Evening News!’ It’s not surprising the audience is leaving in droves.”

 

Update 3/19/25:

• CBS Paints Trump as Worse Than Venezuelan Gangs  - In the moral battle between President Donald Trump and the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the media have chosen a side. The foreign gangsters are less morally questionable than the president.

NBC

Let's not paddle around the pond, NBC is in trouble, as both CNN and NBC are dumping staff, a lot of staff, simply because no one is watching their corruption of thought, fact, logic, and reality, and their revenue is plummeting in alignment with their ratings, and when cable crashes in favor of streaming, and all that lovely, lovely cable money comes to a halt, they're doomed. 

It gets worse, not only are they losing revenue, they're going have to pay for their lies.....big time payments.   NBC was sued by a Georgia doctor who as defamed by Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, and Chris Hayes.

NBC's top anchors made ‘verifiably false’ statements about a doctor they accused of performing ‘mass hysterectomies’ on female inmates at ICE facility, a federal judge ruled last year.....A federal judge ruled last year that the MSNBC hosts made 39 "verifiably false" statements about Amin. The judge found that a jury could reasonably conclude the network acted with "actual malice." Internal NBC documents revealed lingering doubts among reporters about the whistleblower’s claims, but aired the story anyway. Emails and texts uncovered during discovery showed that journalists, including Maddow and Hayes, had early reservations about the allegations.

And NBC settled for $30 million.  Normally settlements are cheaper than trials, win or lose, but this isn't one of those times.  Why would NBC settle for such a huge amount of money?  Mike McDaniel explains: 

Settlements are common in civil suits. In many cases it makes sense to settle to avoid ridiculously high legal costs and general embarrassment, but that holds true only if the settlement amount is relatively small. That’s not going to be true in this case, and NBC surely didn’t want their malicious internal communications revealed in public, not after this..........Even these five reporters and anchors weren’t alone. Numerous producers and editors were also involved. The false reports were based on the testimony of Dawn Wooten, a nurse, who eventually admitted she made it all up. That, of course, didn’t stop MSNBC......

If this continued and NBC had to open their files during discovery it's my view they would be facing even more devastating lawsuits.  

Updates:  And the hits just keep right on coming:

•  AP Pulls Story About Tulsi Gabbard After Getting It Completely WRONG
• ABC News Was Forced to Retract Some Grade-A Fake News About Israel's Gaza Offensive
• The Fall and Fall of the Associated Press “Liberal bias” or “Democrat bias” are deeply inadequate to describe the attitude among members of the mainstream media.  More 

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

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: My Media Commentaries

 

I'm lumping NBC and MSNBC together because they're part and parcel of the same package, and what we're seeing is a lot of hand wringing and gnashing of teeth now that Trump has been elected.   

Chuck Schumer has been disgusting with his a record of lies, vile hate speech, and even threats against conservative SCOTUS jurists promoting violence. But now, all of sudden, little Chuckie Schumer has had an epiphany.  Now he's all about bipartisanship.  "Please don't do to us what we did to you, let's all be happy and embrace unity." Ya just gotta see the humor in that.  

• Trump: From 'Fascist' to 'Let's Do Lunch'

But he's not alone, the media, both print and electronic, are wetting their pants. It turns out someone at MSNBC has decided those two nitwits, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski need to kneel and kiss the ring!   Here's what happened when Crazy Mika and Psycho Joe met with Trump, with Trump saying:

 

I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly, or even badly beyond comprehension," ...... "I am always looking to give a second and even third chance, but never willing to give a fourth chance — that is where I hold the line." 

That's a mistake.   Napoleon once said never interfere with an enemy when he's making a mistake, and these vile characters deserve no compassion.   As J.D. Rucker points out MSNBC is desperate, and terrified because they fear for their continued existence as a network, and rightly so.  Now that the norms are back, they fear the administration will use the DOJ against them, which they applauded when the Biden administration pushed censorship of all conservative views.   They've worked to destroy the norms, vilified the norms,  and yet want the norms to protect them.  Here's a taste of who and what they are.  

1. MSNBC’s Maddow: Is Trump Trying to ‘Destroy the U.S. Government’ with Cabinet Picks?
2. MSNBC’s Scarborough: ‘It’s Insanity’ — White Elitist Dems Are Setting Up Party to Lose
3. MSNBC Anchor Wonders How to ‘Live With’ Family and Friends Who Voted for Trump
4. Joy Reid Says Black Women No Longer Interested in ‘Saving America’ After Betrayal by White Female Voters
5. MSNBC’s Wallace: Even Though Trump Has a Mandate, He ‘Doesn’t’ Understand Power in Washington

MSNBC is garbage, and NBC turned it into garbage, deliberately, and as a result their audience is draining faster than they can tell lies, which is really fast.  And along with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, there are:

 

"Mike Barnacle, Claire McCaskill, Willie Geist, Al Sharpton, Donnie Deutsch, and whoever else they shake out of their chardonnay slumber early in the morning to round out their throuple or whatever they call in early-morning orgy of lies – are irrelevant in the overall scheme of things, or at least they used to be.  Now that mommy and daddy went to meet with Adolf Hitler Jr. and didn’t try to von Stauffenberg him might lead to an awkward Thanksgiving meal and an excommunication from the left.".......  “What we did agree on was to restart communications,” ........"They’re heroes, just ask them."

 

And now they're facing a payola scandal involving Al Sharpton:

First, there was the revelation that Al Sharpton pocketed a tidy sum from the lavish-spending Kamala Harris campaign, where the bad reverend was granted $500,000, and he repaid Kamala when he delivered a tongue-bath interview on October 20. This is a severe breach of journalism ethics, and the network heads have not addressed this payola scandal in any fashion.

 

But the fact remains, they need viewers to stay in business, and their numbers are staggering, all because of their unflinching commitment to fake news has caused their viewership to crater, and now they're on the market to be sold, and they've admitted they have no clue how to win back their audience.   

 

Here's the real issue for them, without subscription cable where people were forced to bundle paying for shows they didn't want and never watched, they can't survive....."for nearly a half-century, Hollywood somehow convinced 100 million American households to pay a fortune for TV channels they never watched......you are subsidizing hate outlets like CNN and MSNBC. A piece of your monthly cable bill goes directly into their pockets. CNN could not survive in a merit-based system. Too few people watch CNN for it to make any real money from advertising......"

 

America is abandoning cable for streaming services, and no matter what you may not like about them, it's merit based.  You only pay for what you want, and as the author points out the reasons:

 

..........millions and millions are canceling their CSTV packages is the insane amount of free programming through streaming. If you have a Roku box and high-speed internet, you’re blown away by all the free stuff. Pluto, FreeVee, and Roku TV are basically free versions of cable TV with fewer ads. There’s news, sports, classic TV, binge channels of newer shows, true crime, movies galore…

 

It turns out Crazy Mika, Psycho Joe, and the "execrable" Joy Reid may not have jobs much longer, as it appears Comcast has decided to leave this sinking ship behind, rats and all.

 

As for the print media, they're even in more trouble as newspapers are trying to go out of business as fast as restaurants.  Jeff Bezos is shaking up the Washington Post, which one writer described saying he's seen restaurant menus that are bigger, a common trend for all newspapers now. He lost 250,000 subscribers because he wouldn't endorse Kamala, and lost $77 million over this last year, and has been losing tens of millions every year.  His solution is to call for more conservative writers.  It's too late, his readership are all far left lunatics, they won't stand for it, so he's either going to keep losing tens of millions of dollars every year forever, or close down the newspaper. 

 

The Los Angeles Times refused to endorse Kamala, but not because she's so far left.  The owner didn't think she was far left enough, and now the owner is going to fire his editorial board and hire "an all-new editorial board" saying:

"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."....."Coming soon, a new Editorial Board. Trust in media is critical for a strong democracy."

So what exactly was he saying here? He said he knew his newspaper was blatantly biased, corrupt, totally unconcerned with facts, truth, or reality, and was nothing more that a Pravda media mouth piece for leftist Democrats.  But in spite of all that everyone can now can trust him to do the right thing.  What a load of horsepucky.  

 

This isn't a singular event, it's nationwide, The Dallas Morning News another leftist rag reports they suffered "a net loss of $3.9 million for its third quarter of 2024"...."compared to the $1.4 million loss in the same period last year", two and a half times, an almost 10% decrease in revenue, and that kind of loss will only grow, because of who and what they are, and their readers won't be coming back. 

The print and electronic media are heading for a crash!

 

Update 11/22/24:   MSNBC headed for hospice care - November 22, 2024 by Silvio Canto, Jr. - The moral of the story is that hatred will eventually destroy the hater. 

 

MSNBC president Phil Griffin 'smirked as he waved around a zoomed-in photograph of Maria Menounos' naked crotch in a staff meeting, after she was caught on camera suffering a bikini malfunction, according to Ronan Farrow's new book

• Phil Griffin, 62, reportedly told others in the room: 'Would you look at that?'
• Ronan Farrow's new book, Catch and Kill, details that 'four colleagues said Griffin was known for making lewd or crass remarks in work emails' 
• TV host Maria, 41, called the images 'the most
• Married dad-of-two Griffin is also said to have forced female producers to join him at a peep show in Times Square while a senior producer in the 1990s 
• NBC News President Noah Oppenheim, NBC News Chief Andy Lack and Griffin were known as the 'triumvirate' by those working for Weinstein, book claims 
• Griffin has been president since 2008 and with MSNBC since its launch in 1996
• The book also contains more details of how Farrow was turned away by NBC 

By Lauren Fruen For Dailymail.com

 

Published: 13 October 2019

 

The president of MSNBC waved around a zoomed-in photograph of Maria Menounos' crotch in a staff meeting after she suffered a bikini malfunction, according to explosive details in Ronan Farrow's new book. Phil Griffin, 62, reportedly smirked as he told others in the room: 'Would you look at that? Not bad, not bad.' 

 

TV host Maria, 41, called the publication of the photographs 'the most embarrassing moment of my life' after the images emerged of her on the beach in Miami on New Years Eve in 2010.  After one of her followers tweeted to tell her of the pictures days later she replied: 'No??!!!! Where did u see? Please tell me you're joking.............To Read More....

 

The Droppings of the Peacock Network

What a rich harvest of phonies.

George Neumayr May 2, 2018

Joy Reid had cybersecurity experts and the FBI investigate her bogus claim of hacking, which is an act of fraud as pathological as Brian Williams falsely claiming a seat on a downed plane in Iraq. NBC put Williams back on the air (albeit on a more obscure perch at MSNBC) even though he never admitted to his lying. Before his return, he gave a phony interview to Matt Lauer in which he continued to cast his tale of stolen valor as a baffling mistake rather than an act of fraud. It was the classic non-apology apology, combining responsibility-dodging psychobabble with tough-sounding but meaningless contrition (he “owned” his mistake and so on).........Reid assured everyone that she has “changed,” though moments earlier she had justified the false hacking claim on “genuinely” thinking herself incapable of such rudeness........

.Reid hasn’t changed. She is the same nasty piece of work she has always been; she will just henceforth direct that nastiness to elite-approved targets..............Brokaw, ever the pompous egomaniac, disputes Vester’s charges by saying that they don’t square with his self-conception of his own wonderfulness: ..................The feathers on the Peacock Network are off and the liberal farce it has become is evident for all to see. Its hosts and guests can tell the most pathetic, panicky lies, never apologize for them, and still turn back up on the air. If it weren’t for double standards, as the saying goes, NBC wouldn’t have any at all............To Read More....