Headline: “Will the media learn the right lesson from the Ronna McDaniel debacle?”
From the Washington Post article by Jennifer Rubin, 3/29/24
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Media Layoffs in U.S. – A Crisis?
Headline: “Is the US media layoffs phenomenon the next housing crisis?”
Article from Al Jezerra By Andy Hirschfeld3/27/24
News in the US Lost its Nerve?
From Semafor, ‘Very few have balls’: How American news lost its nerve” by Max Taii, 3/17/24
Maybe All News is Not Real, Ya’ Think?
A film about manufactured news – driven by ratings:
From the prescient Sidney 1976 Lumet film “Network” about a deranged news anchor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cSGvqQHpjs
Article by Steven Lee Myers in the New York Times 3/7/24
Headline” “Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.”
Not too long ago, this modest website about the media was subject to a DNS attack by Russian bots and over 4,000 fake accounts had to be removed. Took some time. So it’s no surprise that some – over there – have also set up fake news sites (some are very crude) to influence things here.
Here’s the article for you to peruse, however NYT is paywalled.
Another One Bites the Dust
No more ad-Vice. From The Guardian – Article by Sirin Kale 2/27/24
Bloated salaries and a changing media landscape doom Vice News.
Leading by Bleeding
Sinclair Broadcasting has a formula for making money off of tragedy. From Washington Post 2/16/24.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/16/sinclair-broadcasting-conservative-media-trump/
Headline: “Sinclair’s recipe for TV news: Crime, homelessness, illegal drugs”
Sub-headline: “The local news powerhouse, whose chairman recently bought the Baltimore Sun, focuses on fear in broadcasts that often align with Donald Trump’s view of cities”
Are the Media Facing an Extinction, Dinosaur-Level Event?
From the 2/10/24 New Yorker article by Claire Malone
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“A report that tracked layoffs in the industry in 2023 recorded twenty-six hundred and eighty-one in broadcast, print, and digital news media. NBC News, Vox Media, Vice News, Business Insider, Spotify, theSkimm, FiveThirtyEight, The Athletic, and Condé Nast—the publisher of The New Yorker—all made significant layoffs. BuzzFeed News closed, as did Gawker. The Washington Post, which lost about a hundred million dollars last year, offered buyouts to two hundred and forty employees”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/is-the-media-prepared-for-an-extinction-level-event
“Two hundred and four counties in the U.S. now have no local news—high-poverty areas are most affected—and, by the end of this year, it’s expected that the U.S. will have lost a third of its newspapers,” the article also said.
“Disappeared” Journalists Around the World
Source: Reporters Without Borders
