01.25.24
Reporting on the Mirror – NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Like Socialism, a "true" journalism strike just has not been tried yet.
It is a dizzying time of media layoffs, as this week shows the process is only ramping up as problems across the journalism landscape continue to grow. One of the details in this media miasma is that workers have been going on strike as employers are under revenue stress, basically giving them a list of the people they should let go.
Last week, the LA Times staged a strike, and by Monday, 20% of its staff was let go. In December 2022, The New York Times workers held a walkout, and by summer, its sports department was shuttered and coverage turned over to The Athletic. This past November, the Washington Post staffers took to the sidewalks, and it led to management announcing it was going to offer staff buyouts or conduct another wave of layoffs.
In the face of these and other examples of neutered workplace defiance, the New York Daily News Union announced it was going to hold its own strike – because this time, it will be different!
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— Daily News Union (@NYDNUnion) January 25, 2024
Low Octane Gas Lighting – BUSINESS INSIDER
Maybe the fact that the reporters cannot reconcile these realities has led to this result.
In the ongoing coverage of this industry upheaval, one of the items we have commented on is how the press has been chirping at us about how wonderful the Joe Biden economy has been as we watch the news industry burning and roiling like a dumpster fire floating down the river.
This has now played out for us to see directly.
Less than a month ago, Business Insider was raving about the economy, and now comes word that its management has announced it will be enduring significant staff cuts.
Make it make sense... pic.twitter.com/xhl6PjgdPY
— Brad Slager: Flips On The Highbeams In Fog Of War (@MartiniShark) January 25, 2024
News Avoidance Syndrome – WASHINGTON POST
It's almost as if people do not understand just how magnificent she is!
Adding to the stark obliviousness to all these media meltdowns, we now have a rather unhelpful video from the online "expert" at the Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz. She put out a video snippet that catalogs the issues in the press. She is rather direct and mostly accurate in discussing how the press environment has been "hallowed out."
But as she is accurate about the effects, there is a very stark omission in her video – she says nothing at all about the problems in the industry creating these issues. Her monologue is how tough all of this is…on her.
NEW - WaPo's Taylor Lorenz: "Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up in has been completely hollowed out."pic.twitter.com/k5kokYenKI
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 25, 2024
Pathological Media Amnesia – (NOT) CNN
Chris fails journalism once again; we are just unsure in what fashion.
Okay, pick one – is this an example of Chris Cillizza failing to do research or failing to check his source? We are a touch confused, only because this involves Chris saying things in complete defiance of – himself.
It has been a tough week for Chris as he has unwisely chosen to enter the fray regarding these media layoffs from his position as a laid-off CNN pundit. In getting into a discussion with Ron DeSantis press secretary Jeremy Redfern, Chris got snippy over the issue of his dismissal from his former network. The problem: Chris Cillizza appears unaware of comments made on this matter by…Chris Cillizza.
Does @ChrisCillizza fail to listen to his source (himself), or fail to do proper research (also, himself). The comments are not 3 months apart, but also concern his own life, which Chris should know innately.
— Brad Slager: Flips On The Highbeams In Fog Of War (@MartiniShark) January 25, 2024
A play in 4 parts, as he attempts to engage with @JeremyRedfernFL: pic.twitter.com/NEN4Hgm8ZR
Race to the Bottom – LOS ANGELES TIMES
- With the layoffs, did the newspaper close off its archives as well...?
Noah Goldberg at the LA Times is still grappling with the after-effects of the layoffs at his paper. Not to revel in the professional misfortune of others, but Noah seems intent on eliding any of the factors that contributed to the job cuts. After posting a picture of a vacant newsroom at his paper, Noah absorbed a lengthy dose of comments, much of it unsympathetic.
He then made a follow-up comment, referencing that many of the responses mentioned the paper pushing for white genocide and being propagandists. While we will stop short of the genocidal talk, there really is no denying that his news outlet does seem to have a preference when it comes to finding racial issues in the city it covers.
I’m just going to store a few pics here for the meantime, hope that’s fine with you Noah. https://t.co/YsuUvDYemS pic.twitter.com/Q7hA4Cm99z
— Brad Slager: Flips On The Highbeams In Fog Of War (@MartiniShark) January 25, 2024
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