Is Legacy news media about to die a slow death?

[rareboy]

Meanwhile...over at the Guardian.

 

[Dargelos]

My donations have never been much but, you know, Luke21, The Widow's Mite.

 

[MARMITE]

The dying legacy DNC media wants to have a boycott because some of their comrades have been excluded from the White House. I say boycott all you want. Hardly anyone is watching you anymore anyways. And isn't funny how the sky was not falling when the previous administration excluded conservative media?

 

[Dargelos]

When someone has to keep ending the points they are making with an "OK?" every time, it makes what they are saying sound dubious.
Honest people know they are telling the truth and don't need that confirmation.

 

[Thad1527]

^^Which conservative media were excluded? Karine Jean-Pierre seemed to always have her hands full with that fool Steve Doocy from Fox News.

 

[rareboy]

I think when you kick out Associated Press, which is a gold standard for international reporting...all because the won't call it Gulf of America...

Well. What can you say?

But yeah, the other legacy media brought a lot of this on by trying to give Trump all the oxygen in the room the first time around because it sold soap.

Eventually media in the US will be similar to media in rrrZZia. The state will control the main propaganda channels and the rest will be silenced.

 

[rareboy]

Definitely the media is getting stupider. The new writer for Politico didn't appear to know who FDR was until some readers pointed it out to him.

 

[rareboy]

Among the new media, this is a promising trend. Rogan only makes America stupider and more dull white cis conservative straight male.

Time for people who still believe in actually reporting things that matter to a broader demographic.

 

[rareboy]

Freedom of speech? Get the fuck of of here.

Trump: AP White House access restricted until they use "Gulf of America" (Axios; updated February 18, 2025)

Stop whining about Europe. Pay attention to what is happening in the US.

 

[rareboy]

Chris Kluwe‬ ‪@chriswarcraft.bsky.social‬
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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

 

[rareboy]

Well, finally AP is fighting back in the courts.

The Associated Press sued three officials in the Trump administration today for blocking AP journalists from presidential events because the AP continues to use the traditional name “Gulf of Mexico” for the gulf that Trump is trying to rename. The AP is suing over the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech

The Associated Press is suing three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events.

apnews.com

Again, the Freedom of Speech right wingers are struck silent as the Trump regime and MuskCo. take a battering ram to the first amendment.

 

[Dargelos]

To attack AP is a bad move, the agency is well respected, has friends, all over the world. This cheap stunt has a high diplomatic cost.

 

[rareboy]

omg

Even WAPO...in the bag for trump actually has taken some notice that things aren't going as planned.

 

[MARMITE]

The extremely controversial and utterly clueless Joy Reid just got fired.

 

[opinterph]

Joy Reid just got fired.

MSNBC is being spun off from Comcast and will become a new publicly traded company. The company will retain its name.

Kutler [MSNBC’s new president] has described plans to build an independent newsgathering apparatus for MSNBC, which will lose its ties to NBC News after the new company is formed. She wants to launch a separate MSNBC Washington bureau, and to add a new roster of international and domestic correspondents. She also wants to hire a new head of talent, a Washington bureau chief and a head of content strategy. Yet she has articulated a plan to hew close to the network’s progressive leanings, not trying to steer it to the center.

Joy Reid and Alex Wagner Axed From MSNBC Lineup in Major Network Shakeup (Variety; February 23, 2025)

 

[rareboy]

Meanwhile...over at the NYT...they finally go there after all these years.

 

[rareboy]

Just a reminder that as American media is strangled and censored... you may want to do what many of us do all the time...turn to other dependable external outlets that don't have to suck Trump's or Musk's taint.

 

[Dargelos]

Aljazerra is also a useful source, it gone from our tv at the moment, but the online is still online.

 

[rareboy]

A little bit of 'Vive la Resistance!' The French press helped circumvent the ban on AP at the White House.

French Resistance Steps in After AP Banned From Trump-Macron Presser

The Paris Press Corps today ensured that an AP reporter could enter and ask a question.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[rareboy]

And as WaPo has more and more interference by its owner...