Is Legacy news media about to die a slow death?

[rareboy]

wtf is wrong with the NYT.

It just gets worse and worse.

 

[DantheManFL]

Note to Mods - we need a vomit icon in responses.

 

[KaraBulut]

Note to Mods - we need a vomit icon in responses.

This one is far more fun:

 

[Dargelos]

The BBC Reith Lectures are about the most prestigious event in radio. For a Reith Lecture to be subject to censorship is unprecedented. Yet the inconceivable has happened. This year's speech by admired intellectual and very nice gentleman Rutger Bregman has had the following line deleted;
The current POTUS is "the most openly corrupt president in American history"
There is nothing controversial about that statement. It is a provable fact. Fact, not opinion. Libel is only libel if untrue. Yet Auntie Beeb's lawyers scared and with reason. If taken to court, an honest court that is, Auntie would win but the costs would be enormous. Donald is famous for not paying up and how can you force a dishonest president to honour his debt? The BBC would win but still be the loser and it cannot afford to piss so much public money down the drain.
Let us say that again, "the most openly corrupt president in American history" who does not seem to understand how the Streisand effect works.

 

[rareboy]

This isn't the flex that looney Loomer thinks it is.

And particularly now that the actual legit press is exiled from the Pentagon...there is no need for them to maintain the kind of cosy relationship they normally might have.

I suspect that the whole Hegseth kill order story is a hit job in the press in part because of the frantic attempts to shut out actual journalists.

So being a stooge to spread lies and propaganda...sorry gurl...you are being used because of your mental disorders and lack of qualifications and discernment.

 

[rareboy]

Meanwhile, the paper owned by the billionaire owner of Amazon wants to reassure all their consumers who are not getting commensurate increases in wages and salaries.

 

[rareboy]

Of course, CBS is now just another far right wing billionaire owned propaganda machine for TrumpCo. and Project 2025.

 

[KaraBulut]

Of course, CBS is now just another far right wing billionaire owned propaganda machine for TrumpCo. and Project 2025.

Investigation, schminvestigation.

Haven't the Democrats learned anything? The DNC should sue CBS, get a multi-million dollar settlement and use the money to annihilate the opposition in 2026 and to build windmills all around Mar-A-Lago.

 

[rareboy]

The DNC is only looking for shit they can get small donations for with this kind of 'investigation'. They don't control jack squat so this is all just meaningless performative theatre.

 

[rareboy]

Bari Weiss is turning CBS into a TEMU knock-off of the Tiffany network...and from the comments, a lot of people have just been switching channels. Viewers don't give a shit about the new leather sofa that JD Vance is fucking. Obviously they were going hard to get viewers for her 'town hall' appearance but most appear to have been baffled and unimpressed with the programming...

CBS viewers brand Erika Kirk town hall 'unsettling' as she slams late husband's 'sick' critics​

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Bari Weiss's Embarrassing CBS Christian Hour with Erika Kirk Sends Charlie Kirk Book to Number 2, and Temporarily Sold Out - Showbiz411

Seventy years of CBS News was chucked out the window tonight by Bari Weiss. Could there have been anything more cringe and embarrassing as Weiss’s Christian Hour interview with Erika Kirk, widow of right wing evangelist Charlie Kirk? My favorite part was when the closed captioning misread the...

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[rareboy]

And...no surprise...no one really wanted to watch this bullshit ego fest. The numbers are in and Weiss strikes out again. The question is how long the Ellisons will
let their own egos and Trumplust get in the way before they kick her to the side and get some gray suit in there to take the helm. Otherwise, their sponsors are going to bolt.

 

[rareboy]

^ Worse still, apparently the audience was down 47% in the 25-54 age group......ouch.

 

[rareboy]

And more on Bari Weiss carrying water for the Ellisons and TrumpCo.

They appear to have chosen well by selecting one of the most venal and unqualified media hacks to helm a hollowed out shell of a once respected news organization.

 

[KaraBulut]

Bari Weiss is going to last maybe a few more weeks. She's a notorious, whiny, "I'm taking my toys and going home" type. The CBS News employees are going to leak her into oblivion.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g-s1-103282/cbs-chief-bari-weiss-pulls-60-minutes-story

CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
Just a day and a half before it was set to be broadcast, new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a planned 60 Minutes investigative segment centering on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants last March.

Weiss told colleagues this weekend the piece — planned for Sunday night's show — could not run without an on-the-record comment from a Trump administration official. That's according to two people with knowledge of events at the network who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing job security.

The correspondent on the story, Sharyn Alfonsi, condemned the decision in an email to 60 Minutes colleagues on Sunday evening, saying she believed it was "not an editorial decision, it is a political one." (The email was obtained by NPR and other news organizations.)

 

[rareboy]

I have a long standing disrespect and disregard for Weiss. Her act wore pretty thin when we used to watch Bill Maher.

Alfonsi makes it very clear:

"Government silence is a statement, not a VETO"

"If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch'' for any reporting they find inconvenient."

 

[rareboy]

And of course, she is now doubling down on the offensive.

But honestly...I suspect the knives that weren't out for her before are definitely out now.

Looking forward to Daniel Craig reprising his role.

Bari Weiss Issued Deranged Memo to 60 Minutes Staff on Axed Segment

The CBS editor-in-chief had a pathetic explanation for her decision to halt the 60 Minutes segment on Trump’s deportations.

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[rareboy]

And from Betty Bowers today:

CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”

 

[KaraBulut]

I'm taking bets on whether Bari Weiss is still around by the Ides of March.

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

The irony is scorching. The man should have burst into flames.

“They know that these are monsters, who got exactly what they deserved. Because under President Trump, we are not going to let little girls get raped, and murdered anymore,” Miller said during an appearance on Fox News’s “Jesse Waters Primetime.”

“And every one of those producers at ’60 Minutes’ engaged in this revolt, fire them. Clean house, fire them! That’s what I say, Charlie,” he told guest host Charles Hunt.

But let's see what comes out of the hyperbolic direction by Miller to 'fire everybody'. And whether Weiss wants to go forward as Miller's propaganda whore as his Margarita Simonyan.

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