08.15.23
Low Octane Gas Lighting – CNN
- This is the view when you do not turn around.
In the recent “Reliable Sources” newsletter, CNN’s media maven Oliver Darcy was waxing wise about the departure of numerous news outlet CEOs and the general state of things with the rapid eroding of broadcast TV.
In the alleged analysis, Darcy also cited another challenge ahead for news outlets.
Meanwhile, amid the rapid change on the distribution and business fronts, news outlets have been thrown into stormy editorial seas, with the U.S. political landscape being consumed in ugly chaos spurred by the anti-democratic trends transpiring within the GOP.
This kind of delusion is almost precious. To say only the GOP is generating chaos and threatening democracy, one needs to ignore the Democrats' weaponizing of the DOJ for an upcoming election, the press pretending Biden isn't challenging the Supreme Court, and all of them encouraging the silencing of free expression on a regular basis.
Reliable Sources via @oliverdarcy:
— craig newmark (@craignewmark) August 15, 2023
TV News Tumult; CNN's New Lineup; Questions in Kansashttps://t.co/c9lDEAwNnL
Reporting on the Mirror – AXIOS
While Darcy wants to pretend that a major issue facing his ilk on television is conservatives generating chaos, you begin to understand the desperation once you see some actual industry metrics. Nielsen has conducted a market study recently that underscores how bad things have become for the TV outlets.
Linear viewing (broadcast networks and cable channels combined) hit an all-time television audience low, and for the first time ever, less than half of TV viewing was on the linear channels.
Cable TV viewing also dipped below 30% for the first time ever recorded. Streaming and other formats surpassed those overall, as the cord-cutting practice is taking place at a pace that is exceeding projections.
Keep shaking your fist at those Republicans, Oliver.
The view of cord-cutting is becoming even more dire.
— Lie-Able Sources (@LieAbleSources) August 15, 2023
Linear TV viewing (broadcast and cable) fell below 50%, and cable TV audience share hit an all-time low.https://t.co/GeJ9Aenx1M
Legalized Press-titution – MSNBC
- The level of smoke being blown on this episode should have caused the building to be cleared.
In a commentary-free entry here, all we need to do is say that Hillary Clinton appeared on Rachel Maddow to discuss election denialism and threats to our democratic process.
Yes...this delusional presentation actually took place.
Rachel Maddow says to Hillary Clinton "if bad actors tell us falsely that every election is stolen and that the only way an election is trustworthy is that if they come out on top of it, it tells you something not just about that person but it wounds us as a democracy in a way… pic.twitter.com/QEt1yl9FhG
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 15, 2023
Anti-Social Media – THE NEW YORK TIMES
The claimed-conservative voice David French penned a column that (not surprisingly) is critical of conservatives. This time he alleges to address the “vile rhetoric” seen online, and he – of course – lays the blame for this at the feet of Donald Trump.
What is actually in the column is French complaining about the criticism he receives online from the right. The big revelation here is that he harbors no criticism for those on the left, a gaggle that any conservative female on social media will attest can be the most vile and disturbing group online. But see, they are not called out because those leftists do not say mean things to French...which should come as a deeply revealing detail to David, were he being honestly introspective.
So the leftists dig what you have to say, Dave? Well now, isn’t that something...
"It keeps happening," writes @DavidAFrench. "Since the ascendance of Donald Trump, with depressing regularity, right-wing men have been outed for using the most vile rhetoric." https://t.co/eATZoYGEya
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) August 13, 2023
Both Kinds of Standards – THE NEW YORKER
Christopher Rufo has a new book, and he recently staged a release party in New York. Writer Emma Green crashed the party and she gave her assessment of the minds from the right who were in attendance, daring to invade her liberal enclave of Manhattan.
“I work in a small town. I tinker with things,” Rufo said. “It’s very hard to understand that there’s any influence at all.” Aboard this pirate ship in a luxury hotel, he could finally taste it.
Rather amusing that Green makes these conservatives out to be more than party crashers, but almost like distasteful squatters – except the press normally defends squatters. But labeling the conservatives in attendance as pirates is more like a badge of honor than an insult.
Recently, Chris Rufo held a fancy book party on Park Ave—a gathering of the conservative intellectuals trying to overhaul America's conversation on race.
— Emma Green (@emmaogreen) August 14, 2023
“Theme could be ‘counterrevolution at the Mondrian’ :)” as Rufo put it in a text.
My Talk piece:https://t.co/cPD2qviQ1M
Low Octane Gas Lighting – ABC NEWS
- Seriously, who on the staff thought that anyone would buy this lame explanation?!
On ABC’s “This Week,” they hosted Democrat sycophant Donna Brazille, and an effort was made to completely deflect from Joe Biden’s culpability in Hunter's alleged issues.
The con job attempt was to suggest that Republicans were being hypocrites because they complained about the special counsel that has been appointed to the Hunter Biden criminal investigation.
“Hypocrisy” of Republicans criticizing appointment of special counsel in Hunter Biden case after they repeatedly called for one is “peak Washington,” Politico’s @rachaelmbade says.
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 13, 2023
“This really blows a hole in their top talking point." https://t.co/IjmnKQNyGa pic.twitter.com/GwbpaONHuw
Okay, just to help out the dolts at ABC News: The complaint is not over a special counsel being brought in, it's because David Weiss was the one who was chosen to serve in that role, given his past with the Bidens and his decidedly non-independent stature in this regard.
