Media Tracker (5 Viewers)

[SaintForLife]

I figured we needed a thread specifically about the media.

There was a very big correction recently by the Washington Post.


That story was supposedly "independently confirmed" by CNN, NBC News, USA Today, ABC News, & PBS News Hour. How could they all have gotten the quote wrong if they actually independently confirmed the story?






Why do all the errors always go in one political direction and not closer to 50/50?

 

[SamAndreas]

It’s one of the 21st century’s evergreen stories: Public confidence in the U.S. media has reached a new low! Such was the announcement from Gallup on Monday, as the company published results of a June poll on Americans’ views of institutions.

A mere 11 percent of U.S. adults have either “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in TV news, Gallup found, with the share for newspapers slightly higher, at 16 percent.

The Gallup confidence trend line reflects inexorable momentum toward zero:

Only Congress, at 7 percent, secured less confidence than TV news.


The polling indicates that the partisan gap spanning viewers’ confidence in TV news is closing: In 2020, 33 percent of Democrats had “a great deal/quite a lot” of confidence in TV news, compared to just 7 percent for Republicans (a 26-point gap); in 2021, it was 26 percent of Democrats and 6 percent of Republicans (a 20-point gap).

This year, that gap closed to 12 points, suggesting that dim views of TV news are becoming an across-the-aisle phenomenon, something we can all agree on.

Because the polling doesn’t delve into the reasons behind these trends, the Erik Wemple Blog feels duty-bound to speculate.

Here goes: The Gallup confidence numbers reflect, at least in part, the role of major TV news providers in discrediting their competitors. Turn on Fox News in the prime-time hours, and you’re pretty much guaranteed to hear the latest blasts against MSNBC and CNN.

“Fake news CNN” is the term that host Sean Hannity frequently uses to introduce the network so despised by his mentee, Donald Trump.

A staple of Fox News programming is a mash-up of voices from CNN, MSNBC and other networks — assembled and packaged for maximum sneering potential.

Most of the criticism is baseless tripe hatched to advance Trump or some other Fox News hobbyhorse, though there have been plenty of legitimate reasons to bash MSNBC and CNN over the years.
For their part, CNN and MSNBC do good work in attacking and debunking the lies, distortions and hatred on Fox News.

There’s a lot to work with, from the segments that promoted the “big lie” after the 2020 presidential election — which triggered two ongoing lawsuits from two voting-technology companies that were attacked on Fox News without basis, they argue — to the credulous coverage of Trump to the racist rantings of host Tucker Carlson……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/19/gallup-poll-confidence-media-new-lows/

I just got done talking to Farb about this: https://madaboutpolitics.com/threads/biden-tracker.115948/post-321487

You're talking about polls, and what you're reporting about their views about the media in those polls is what old Republican would say to a poll taker. That makes sense because old fart Republicans are the only demographic group left in America who doesn't hang up on a poll taker as soon as they realized that is is a poll taker who is trying to talk with them on the phone.

The time of there being accurate telephone polls to evaluate is over. The polls which are left anymore are media sound bite garbage. Fodder to make into a headline.

Republicans still like them.

 

[MT15]

This is how you know Alan Dershowitz is a total hack and butt crevasse:

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

This is how you know Alan Dershowitz is a total hack and butt crevasse:

Alan Dershowitz’s Martha’s Vineyard Cancellation

Recently, the emeritus Harvard law professor has felt shunned at his usual haunts. Is it “cancel culture,” or something else?

www.newyorker.com

Poor Alan.

 

[MT15]

This guy makes a good point - I don’t care for the way some Dems are adding support to the more extreme R candidates in their primaries - BUT when the “wack jobs” win, it’s pretty silly to lay the blame at the feet of Dems.

 

[MT15]

Great, now do NewsMax and Fox:

 

[Optimus Prime]

Hope another network picks it up

I didn't watch it weekly but I enjoyed it when I did see it.
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Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” is getting a kick in the rear from Warner Bros. Discovery.

The show, which became a signature program for the large cable network TBS, “will not return to the network in the fall,” according to a statement from Bee’s representatives.

“As we continue to shape our new programming strategy, we’ve made some difficult, business-based decisions,” TBS said in a statement. “We are proud to have been the home to ‘Full Frontal With Samantha Bee’ and thank Sam, and the rest of the Emmy-nominated team for their groundbreaking work. We celebrate this extraordinarily talented cast and crew and look forward to exploring new opportunities to work with them in the future.”

Over the course of seven seasons, Bee’s “Full Frontal” brought an aggressive and saucy voice to TV’s late-night arena, and one of the few programs led by a female point-of-view. Bee captured attention with outrageous humor and monologues that pushed the usually genial cable network to embrace hefty amounts of profanity and tackle political issues that are often polarizing.

In 2018, the show became part of the news cycle when Bee used a charged epithet that refers to a part of the female anatomy to insult President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka. Advertisers pulled back commercial support, for a time............

The end of her show will come as TV continues to trim back its late-night antics. WarnerMedia decided to end its long-running “Conan” late-night program on TBS with Conan O’Brien in June of last year. NBC and the late-night host Lilly Singh, a digital entertainment influencer who had launched a new show on the network in the wee hours of the morning, decided to part ways last year.

Comedy Central, which once boasted three different late-night shows, now only has one, “The Daily Show,” on regularly during weeknights. Showtime’s “Desus & Mero,” a weekly humor showcase, isn’t returning to Showtime thanks to a fallout between its hosts. And CBS is mulling cheaper alternatives to replace James Corden when he leaves “The Late Late Show” in early 2023...........

Samantha Bee’s ‘Full Frontal’ Canceled in Latest Late-Night Cutback

 

[MT15]

The media has to do better.

 

[MT15]

Glenn Greenwald is a horrible human being.

 

[MT15]

And… Breitbart is already lying about the WaPo story on the DOJ investigation into Trump:

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

And… Breitbart is already lying about the WaPo story on the DOJ investigation into Trump:

Oh puhlease!!!

Pollack knows his readers and the actual truth doesn't matter to them, what matters to them is what people of Pollak's ilk tell them to believe.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[MT15]

Whatever happened with the suit filed by Dominion against Fox? Maybe Hannity had the wrong media outlet that was going to be “destroyed”

 

[superchuck500]

Whatever happened with the suit filed by Dominion against Fox? Maybe Hannity had the wrong media outlet that was going to be “destroyed”

Dominion recently won on the defendants’ motion to dismiss - so the case is going forward at this point.

On its back foot in defamation lawsuit, Fox News hires new legal counsel

'Superlawyer' Dan Webb will lead the Murdoch-owned company's defense against Dominion Voting Systems in the case tied to 2020 election fraud claims.

www.latimes.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

I had forgotten about that kid

 

[bird]

I had forgotten about that kid

I wish I wasn’t reminded of that kid.

 

[superchuck500]

I still give him points for firing Lin Wood after Wood went unhinged over the election.

'This is a dumb tweet': Nick Sandmann fires attorney Lin Wood after Twitter, Telegram posts

On Jan. 1, Sandmann mentioned attorney Lin Wood’s tweet about the "execution" of Mike Pence and commented, “I’m sorry but what the hell.”

www.cincinnati.com

 

[el caliente]

Man, I completely forgot about that kid and that activist.

Apparently he settled a few of his cases before it got to this point. I hope that he invested that money wisely.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Will Tucker and the rest of Fox News dump Trump?
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The symbiotic, mutually advantageous bond between Rupert Murdoch’s media empire and Donald Trump has often been described as a romance or a love fest.

Now that the relationship looks as if it may be headed to divorce court, let’s remember what really matters in any decision to split up: money and power.

And let’s remember what doesn’t matter one whit: loyalty.

There’s no such thing on either side of this equation. In fact, I’d argue that neither side is capable of it.

The Murdochs and Trump aligned for mutual benefit. That may be changing.
Trump, after all, is the president who seemed to think the vicious calls of the mob on Jan. 6, 2021, to hang his ever-faithful Vice President Mike Pence were a pretty reasonable idea.

And he’s the same guy who mysteriously seems to forget close associates as soon as they cause him any trouble. After White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson — a frequent presence in his meetings whose workstation was mere steps away from the Oval Office — offered devastating testimony to the Jan. 6 select committee in June, Trump suffered the usual amnesia: “I hardly know who this person, Cassidy Hutchinson, is, other than I heard very negative things about her (a total phony and ‘leaker’) …”

Semper fidelis, in other words, isn’t really Trump’s strong suit. More appropriate is what legendary Chicago columnist Mike Royko suggested as a motto for his city where public officials often had their hands in the till: Ubi est mea? ( “Where’s mine?)

As for the Murdochs, cold hard pragmatism will rule the day. If Trump continues to serve the media empire’s purposes as he has been doing so effectively for the past six years — bringing money in the form of ratings and viewership and benefiting Murdoch’s chosen political party — he’ll remain in favor.

If not, then he’ll be tossed overboard without an iota of regret, at least not by the top leadership: Rupert Murdoch and his increasingly important son, Lachlan.

Whether that will actually happen is not entirely clear. The signs are still a little murky and certainly open to interpretation.

On the one hand, the opinion pages of two Murdoch newspapers — the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post — have turned on Trump recently, both offering scathing editorials that blasted him for his role on Jan. 6, 2021, particularly his utter lack of leadership in calling off the dangerous mob. And, far more important than any newspaper editorial, his most valuable media ally, Fox News, has skipped much of the live coverage of the former president’s speeches and rallies while not interviewing him live for months.

Worse, the person emerging as his chief rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has clearly caught the cable network’s eye.

But there’s still plenty of sycophancy on display. Just days ago, the talking heads of “Fox & Friends” — perhaps chastened by Trump’s raging that they had gone to the “dark side” after they reported some unfavorable poll numbers — once again stroked his fragile but oversize ego. Brian Kilmeade called him the “greatest golfing president ever,” and Ainsley Earhardt backed that up with one admiring exclamation: “Athletic!”..............

The cautious calculation behind whether Fox will dump Trump