Hope Elon Musk wins the left-wing Media Matters for America complaint as it buckles under the mass of it! It’s probably a good idea for those deep-pocketed donors to think about investing their money abroad because MMFA is a devilish organization that employs a number of otherwise unemployed dopes, and because so much of what was once known as “media reporting” is now just more repression and right-wing reduction, which is exactly what MMFA does.
This presenting quotation from Erik Wemple from the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple was featured in a long article about Tucker Carlson on Friday.” I wrote about him when he was at Fox News for the basic purpose that Tucker had bosses,” Wemple said. ” And those bosses were n’t accountable. They were n’t really journalists, as we discovered in the Dominion suit. But they were sensitive to criticism, and my job as a press writer was to expose the truth and demand answers from Fox.
In other words, Wemple, a “media writer” who has been around Washington forever and who was previously Carlson’s most dedicated audience, was just interested in writing about the present number so long as it was possible to find him fired. Now that Carlson is self- employed and featured on a platform that’s decidedly against information suppression and censorship ( thanks, Elon ), Wemple does n’t see the point. Wemple can no longer expect Fox managers to accept his gnawing, which is not to say that Carlson has less impact on the national conversation or that he has left his professions to pursue other interests.
A CNN media writer also spent an uncomfortable amount of time this year reaching out to Ticketmaster and event venues for feedback on their membership in a nationwide trip that is scheduled to begin in the upcoming weeks. The CNNer claimed that despite receiving no answer from someone ( because that’s how significant he is ), he still letting his freak flag fly. ” How can any reasonable person not just join in enabling Carlson’s poison of the common discourse”, he wrote,” but also support profiting off of his cruel speech in the process”?
To sum up, a well-known newscaster who is seen by millions is hosting a few live events, and a CNN employee made it his mission to have them all canceled.
Yes, “media reporting” is now that retarded.
When I used to work in the media, my goal was to bring transparency to an industry that neither provides nor demands it of others, all at once. At its ideal, media reporting was a reality check on other high- profile journalists, TV people and newsroom editors, a helpful reminder that they were n’t above criticism, ridicule, or the possibility of being exposed. It could be as serious as challenging a news outlet for breaking its own standards, as I did in 2014, when the Associated Press called Michael Brown a “teen” despite the fact that he was a legal adult. Or it might just as well be petty as highlighting a news anchor’s mockery on social media, as I did when NBC’s Chuck Todd unintentionally tweeted a close-up photo of his crotch.
That was a wildly fun time, but it’s not what “media reporters” do anymore. They are now only allowed to check on their peers if they are being properly criticized for ignoring anyone who does n’t cast a ballot.
For instance, last week, the media news website Mediaite posted a video chat with George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton White House official and Democrat ABC News anchor, in which they expressed their frustration with their peers for recording live TV interviews with Donald Trump. Spoiler: the supposed challenge is n’t that Trump is a lousy guest, it’s that he does n’t shrivel into a mummified fetus every time some corny TV anchor calls him a liar.
” It’s going to be a challenge for those who are ]moderating ] the debate in June”, said Stephanopoulos. ” I mean, I think it’s journalistic malpractice to do a live interview with President Trump on television”.
Can’t do it live. That would increase the chance that viewers would hear and see something that the media did n’t like. The story would be about journalists and news anchors making themselves the judges of what opinions and arguments the public is permitted to hear from former and presumably future presidents, with questions like: Who decide that? What qualifies you to determine what information is safe for the general public to know? Does n’t the fact that you can watch live televised Trump speak without having to answer his questions mean there is already a sizable audience interested in what he has to say?
That’s not the point of “media reporting” anymore. It’s only another arm of the sprawling anti- information, pro- censorship regime that has rendered Media Matters obsolete.
