There’s been a massive gutting of the liberal media establishment. Longtime hosts of major programs are leaving. Some have been fired. It’s why the meltdowns during the second Trump presidency are more muted, returning to Bush-era noise levels but with the same amount of stupidity. In other words, we’ve exhausted these people, and we’re winning. The combination of USAID, a sugar daddy of the liberal media, being shut down and millions leaving legacy media for alternative information streams has been brutal for the liberal press. And no one is safe, which some at ABC News are about to discover.
The Grim Reaper is paying a visit. The entire FiveThirtyEight data cruncher outfit is being dissolved, and there are at least 200 people from ABC News who will no longer be with the company soon (via WSJ):
About 200 employees are being let go at Disney’s pointing triangle ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks unit, people familiar with the matter said.
The layoffs are being announced to employees as early as Wednesday and represent just under 6% of the combined staff at the two units, according to one of the people with knowledge of the cuts.
The cuts are the latest of several staff reductions over the past few years at Disney, which like many entertainment companies is looking for ways to save on what used to be core businesses as it spends more on sports and entertainment content to compete in the streaming marketplace. Ratings and revenue are down at many cable channels as consumers ditch cable packages and advertisers flee for streaming services and digital platforms.
The ABC news magazine shows “20/20” and “Nightline” are consolidating into one unit, resulting in job cuts, the people said. ABC is also eliminating the political and data-driven news site 538, which had about 15 employees.
Trump is back. This comeback is epic. And he’s done what no other Republican could do—kill the liberal media. He’s bleeding them. Let’s hope everything gets exsanguinated.
