The Media

Jeff Zucker’s Dumpster Fire

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CNN+ Is Shutting Down One Month After Launch

Variety–Warner Bros. Discovery is shutting down CNN+ as of April 30, marking one of the company’s first significant maneuvers since completing the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery less than two weeks ago.

The decision puts an abrupt end to an ambitious and aggressive venture that people familiar with the matter say rankled David Zaslav, the new CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, from the start. Zaslav was annoyed by the decision of Jason Kilar, the former CEO of WarnerMedia when it was owned by AT&T, to launch CNN+ just weeks before Discovery was set to take over operations. But he was unable to communicate with WarnerMedia management, owing to legal boundaries surrounding the merger process.

Two Days Without FoxNews… Except For Tucker Carlson, Of Course

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From now on whoever gets my Nielsen news rating eyeballs is gonna have to do it the old fashioned way.  Earn it.

Conservative Network Newsmax Surges In Ratings – Already Beating The FOX Business Network

What The Fox!!??

American Lookout–FOX News may have made a colossal mistake. They had one of the most loyal audiences in cable television. But after their reportage of the 2020 election, and particularly election night, the landscape is changing fast.

Anger from their audience is already driving down FOX’s ratings.

Now, another right leaning network called Newsmax is getting a major boost from former FOX News fans.

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Jake Tapper, The Second Most ‘Self-Unaware’ Person On The Planet

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Who’s the first, you ask? Joe Biden. But he has an excuse.

MAGA Lion Attack Thwarted By Colorado Hiker

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Just kidding. I was trying out the newest headline writing style practiced by the Mainstream Media, called “Smolletting”. Here’s the real story brought to you by the ‘real’ CNN.

From CNN, “Runner who suffocated mountain lion with his foot describes the attack.”

When Travis Kauffman went for a run near Fort Collins, Colorado, little did he know his workout would include suffocating a mountain lion.

“I feel like I should go buy a bunch of lottery tickets,” he said.

On Thursday, authorities identified Kauffman as the runner who won a fight-to-the-death struggle last week after the cat ambushed him along the trail.

FakeNews Media Should Study Mark Styne’s ‘Correction Lesson’

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The Columbia Journalism Review reported, “Correction as Weapon: Self-Inflicted Wounds.”

Can you tell what’s going on in this 2001 correction/apology published by the Ottawa Citizen?

The Ottawa Citizen and Southam News wish to apologize for our apology to Mark Steyn, published Oct. 22. In correcting the incorrect statements about Mr. Steyn published Oct. 15, we incorrectly published the incorrect correction. We accept and regret that our initial regrets were unacceptable and we apologize to Mr. Steyn for any distress caused b our previous apology.

I feel the offering deserves consideration as one of the top ten corrections of all time. Admittedly, though, it belongs at the bottom end of the list, due to the fact that it doesn’t actually tell you what the incorrect correction got wrong, or why the paper needed to apologize for its apology.

Dickhead, Abilio James Acosta (aka: Acosta-Cortez), Gets Called A “Dickhead” By Sebastian Gorka

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From the Daily Caller, “SEBASTIAN GORKA, JIM ACOSTA TRADE VERBAL BLOWS IN WHITE HOUSE DUST-UP.”

A drive-by sniping from CNN’s Jim Acosta caused Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka to launch a loud, verbal barrage Thursday at the White House.

Multiple witnesses were aghast when they say Acosta saw Gorka, who just debuted his SALEM Radio Network show “America First,” and told him bluntly that media-related meetings with the president were for “real journalists” only. Gorka proceeded to berate Acosta at a high volume.

“Abilio ‘Jim’ Acosta, you are a dickhead,” Gorka fired back at Acosta.