We already dropped LATimes so I can't check that. But it's interesting to see who considers it newsworthy. Most of the Montana papers I checked led with "A swastika-tattooed suspect..."
We already dropped LATimes so I can't check that. But it's interesting to see who considers it newsworthy. Most of the Montana papers I checked led with "A swastika-tattooed suspect..."
Inside the Meltdown at CNN CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the networkâs reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?
One year into the job, Licht was losing both battles. Ratings, in decline since Trump left office, had dropped to new lows. Employee morale was even worse. A feeling of dread saturated the company. Licht had accepted the position with ambitions to rehabilitate the entire news industry, telling his peers that Trump had broken the mainstream media and that his goal was to do nothing less than âsave journalism.â But Licht had lost the confidence of his own newsroom. Because of this, he had come to view the prime-time event with Trump as the moment that would vindicate his pursuit of Republican viewers while proving to his employees that he possessed a revolutionary vision for their network and the broader news media.
It comes as no surprise that corporate media likes a good, wholesome war as much as the average American. It sells. Morally ambiguous wars, or worse, peace, do not sell. People lose interest. This NYT article is illustrative of so many articles in corporate media about Ukraine and war.
The real story here, other than corporate media being a megaphone for the Pentagon, is of one man trying to redeem his past acts of violence by committing future acts of violence in yet another proxy war of superpowers. It is a story of a culture of militarism and toxic masculinity perpetuating the idea that if we can just find a good, morally unambiguous war all will be well with our society.
The New Kremlinology: Reading the New York Times With censorship soaring and real reporting all but taboo, the major dailies have just one important function left: being a political signaling system.
