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Role of the Media

HailToTheDeacons said:
Long, but good read:

Inside the Meltdown at CNN
CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?
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I asked Licht to explain that mission to me, as plainly as possible.

“Journalism. Being trusted. Everyone has an agenda, trying to shape events or shape thought. There has to be a source of absolute truth,” he told me. “There’s good actors, there’s bad actors, there’s a lot of shit in the world. There has to be something that you’re able to look at and go, ‘They have no agenda other than the truth.’”
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Given the very public calls from senior leadership to pivot right, and the open attempts to court Republicans, this just reads like he's trying to copy Fox's old "fair and balanced" tagline.

But I think the thing that makes this piece art is this spin:

It didn’t make sense. Matt Dornic offered to translate. Dornic, who was accompanying us in his capacity as CNN’s senior vice president of communications—and, I would learn, as a mainstay of Licht’s small entourage—explained that what upsets the new boss isn’t harsh coverage of him personally, but rather bad press about CNN’s journalists.
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Followed throughout the story with stories of Licht focused on his phone reading articles critical of him.
 
When did The Atlantic stop giving us one free article a month?

Licht generally comes across as a dumbass who doesn’t understand CNN serves a specific purpose as a whipping boy for conservative media and politicians. There’s nothing CNN can do about that except actually report the truth without worrying about what conservatives think.

Conservative pricks like him think they’re reasonable so they assume everyone else on their team is reasonable too.
 
Kristen Welker is the replacement.
 
Pretty bad when your own news org covers the story and talks about your "severe missteps."
 
bym051d said:
Pretty bad when your own news org covers the story and talks about your "severe missteps."
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Yeah, I was struck by how happy and almost gleeful that CNN article seemed. I've read that a great many people at the network hated him and that morale has plummeted since he took charge, so they are likely very happy to see him go.
 


CNN’s Chris Licht showed the problem with anti-woke centrism

Licht and Elon Musk, who has expressed similar sentiments, control two hugely important media platforms. Their views matter. That they have become consumed by this anti-wokeism has meant that great journalists were fired at CNN for being too anti-Trump and that Twitter’s verification system was disabled it seemed because Musk felt it gave too much prominence to left-wing people.
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It’s discouraging that Sulzberger is caught up in Twitter bashing, recently casting the platform as “fostering a type of groupthink inside the profession.” Is Sulzberger carefully reading tweets from local news organizations in small and midsize cities across the country and concluding that the coverage is groupthink? I doubt it. He is just rebuking left-leaning activists who use the site to critique the Times. There was plenty of groupthink inside elite news outlets such as the Times before Twitter existed — but not really an easy way to alert their reporters to police shootings of unarmed Black men.
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This quote is real talk.

After the firestorm created by the Atlantic article, Licht is now stepping down from his post. But all of the harsh criticism is a bit unfair to Licht. In particular, his skepticism of left-wing causes, and his view that people who don’t agree with the left are constantly attacked and shamed, isn’t some outlier stance. These ideas are regularly expressed in many of the nation’s most prominent news outlets. If you spend a lot of time talking to White men in Democratic politics, as I do, you have to nod along as comments like Licht’s are made, even if you don’t agree with them, to signal that you are a reasonable person worth talking to.
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Just a reminder powerful white guys. People are not nodding their head in agreement. They may not even be agreeing in agreement. They have to be non-confrontational to get along.

Thankfully, I'm not in a position where many white men have real power over my career.

That piece also lays the groundwork for connecting white male centrism to white male mediocrity and intellectual laziness. If people are nodding to you because you have power and you derive your ideology from others like yourself who aren't challenged, then you rarely get push back on your ideas and have little need or desire to refine them.
 
What is this about?
 
Dumb anti vaccine shit, he’s a prominent name in the field and Rogan wants to facilitate a debate between him and RFK jr which no respectable scientist will do because it legitimizes a completely batshit alternative.
 
Saw a tweet yesterday that RFK Jr said that for every person vaccinated, 4 died from it ! The CDC and WHO don't want you to know this !
 
Yet real journalists look at polls and think 20% of Dems want him to be the nominee rather than 20% of Dems see "Kennedy" and think he's legit.
 
No doubt his father is turning in his grave at what a total loon this son turned out to be. What a pitiful ending for the once-mighty Kennedy dynasty.
 
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