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Anti-Social Media – MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
There is something about a petard that suddenly seems apt.
The announcement came out today: Folks at Media Matters – the outlet that has long been pledged to take down and otherwise de-platform Fox News and conservative sites – announced that layoffs have taken place at the left-wing smear factory.
Bad News: I’ve been laid off from @mmfa, along with a dozen colleagues.
— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) May 23, 2024
There’s a reason far-right billionaires attack Media Matters with armies of lawyers: They know how effective our work is, and it terrifies them (him).
Matching Media Memorandum – THE NEW YORK TIMES
The media who love throwing flags around are suddenly triggered by flags?
After days spent wailing that Justice Samuel Alito once displayed an inverted American flag at his home, now The Times gets in on the flag-waving outrage. It took three reporters to build up the story that at a vacation home in New Jersey, Alito also had flown the Appeal To Heaven flag.
GASP!
This gets described by the geniuses at the Paper Of Record as a January 6 emblem, minimizing the fact that it is a 250-year-old emblem created for George Washington. NAH! It's an insurrectionist symbol now!
NEW: Last summer, the Alito beach home in New Jersey flew the "Appeal to Heaven" flag, which, like the upside-down US flag, is linked to Jan. 6. We have photos from July, August, and September, as well as eyewitnesses.
NEW: Last summer, the Alito beach home in New Jersey flew the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which like the upside down US flag, is linked to Jan. 6. We have photos from July, August and September as well as eyewitnesses. https://t.co/uOjZcaUvk9 pic.twitter.com/yUCqbvdT2A
— Jodi Kantor (@jodikantor) May 22, 2024
Matching this hysterical idiocy is Peter Baker, who described this as "another provocative flag." There is no mention from Baker recently about the non-provocative removal of the Stars and Stripes from college campus flagpoles, being replaced by the Palestinian flag.
Another provocative flag was displayed at another Alito home, this one at his vacation house in New Jersey featuring an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. @jodikantor @AricToler @JulieATate…
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) May 22, 2024
Pathological Media Amnesia – MSNBC
Okay, so we call anyone pimping coffee pathetic, is that the message, Joe?
On the left-fringe network's morning program, the crew took it upon themselves to mock the idea of Rudy Giuliani putting out his own brand of coffee. There was much mockery tossed around, discussing his financial woes and how far he had fallen to do this level of promotion.
Of course, not brought up in the panel of snark is how this very program has its own history of hawking Starbucks, with its own branded tie-in. That, we have to assume, was not mockable and pathetic.
Yes, it is just shameful that anyone would be putting out their own coffee.
— Brad Slager - Scrubbing Down In a Bloodbath (@MartiniShark) May 23, 2024
Anyone doing so needs to be mocked, heavily!
In fact, the show was mocked over this partnership. Scarborough was even bothered by Jon Stewart skewering the show over this promotional partnership. https://t.co/Yw6hFFp1Tz pic.twitter.com/iv2R6NvWmS
Demo-lition Project – CNN
Pretty soon the only bragging point will be from a dead cat bounce.
There is a new CEO, it is election season, and there is that extremely hot Donald Trump court case that everyone is simply obsessed with, taking place at the same time. This has to be a gold rush for the cable news networks!
Well…
Over at the third-place-and-dropping once-formidable juggernaut CNN, it just encountered the worst viewing numbers in the demographic since the 1990s.
CNN primetime ratings hit three-decade low:
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) May 23, 2024
The channel suffered its worst ratings since 1991 among primetime viewers in the most coveted demographic — it drew just 83,000 viewers aged 25 to 54 during the week of May 13-19 from 8 to 11pm, according to Nielsen.…
Race to the Bottom – MSNBC
When Chapter 11 is a sign of intolerance.
We are basically conditioned to ignore this wrinkle in the bad news cycle; anytime something dire breaks, we get told that minority groups are hit especially hard; pollution, inflation, unemployment, global-climate-change-environmental-warming, and more.
But – restaurants closing?
MSNBC informs us that the recent announcement of Red Lobster going into bankruptcy proceedings and closing up to 100 locations "hits differently for black communities."
As the Nation Bemoans the Demise of Red Lobster, MSNBC Declares Blacks Are Hardest Hit!https://t.co/Mb20KHoWvb
— RedState (@RedState) May 23, 2024
