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DOJ Commits to Protecting Media Independence

Attorney General Merrick Garland told news media execs in a meeting Tuesday (Sept. 13) that his department was committed to protecting a free and independent press, including ensuring that journalists are not compelled to reveal their sources or information as part of law enforcement investigations.

In July 2021, Garland announced a new policy to restrict compulsory processes to get information collected in the "scope of newsgathering activities." Those protections are necessary in the absence of a federal shield law and include a prohibition on subpoenas, warrants, certain court orders, and "civil investigative demands."

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The problem remains that these exposes are what we consider good media, and given the current situation in LA where they're busting all our corrupt politicians, I have to admit that I think they're important to any dreams we have of achieving good government.

No one else is keeping the assholes honest.

The problem is that it's all so fragmented into ever-tightening affinity groups that it's hard to tell a real expose from today's Internet griping.
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KTLA turmoil over anchors' departure highlights concerns about Latino representation

KTLA-TV Channel 5 is defending its handling of the departure of two popular anchors amid calls by viewers to boycott the station and criticism that station executives have been insensitive to concerns about a shortage of Latinos on air.

For nearly two weeks, KTLA has endured a backlash from angry viewers over the exit of Lynette Romero — the station's most prominent Latina — and her co-anchor on weekend morning shows, Mark Mester. He was fired last Thursday after an emotional on-air appeal, accusing his bosses of cruel treatment toward viewers and Romero, which the station's management denies.

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Rigorous reporting is our democracy's best defense
As this is written, absentee ballots are arriving in Michigan homes. We are less than 40 days from the midterm elections.

The elections this time are crucial in a number of ways, but it is not an exaggeration to say that the future of our democracy is on the ballot.

Some see that as alarmist; others would attack it as partisan. But recent polls indicate fear for democracy is right up there with inflation and abortion as the major issues of the day.

As someone who has enjoyed the privilege of voting in free and fair elections since 1972 and spent his career in a constitutionally protected field, I see the threat as real, serious and imminent. Our freedom is at stake, as is our Constitution. A powerful minority is seeking to bend our society to its beliefs, with no regard for our traditions of laws, compassion and compromise.....
Rigorous reporting that ends up behind a paywall when it is either convenient to authorities or business establishment or is unable to stand a proper airing out by the public at large.

Detroit police release footage of officers fatally shooting Porter Burks

Cynthia Ford challenges rule for Grosse Pointe Farms Catholic church

This one not behind a paywall have to wonder with all thats going on why does its space outrank the many sufferings and problems that are much bigger threats to our democracy and region.
....I am a believer in American exceptionalism. My late father was an immigrant to this country, and he (and his son) bought into the American dream and what this country stood for. Growing up during Vietnam prompted me to question those values, and I remain deeply troubled by our society's failure to deal with issues around race and poverty. But I continue to believe that, in the end, our democracy is the best humankind has got......
Its certainly anyone's prerogative to believe in American exceptionalism, but for news reporting that is critical to democracy itself it is a burden and obstruction to both. I personally don't believe in American Exceptionalism because it puts the cart in front of the horse it falsely attributes greatness and superiority where there isnt any. Greatness for a country is not an identity that can be worn, rather its the workings of systems and policies and ideas, any people can obtain that, its in the workings of justice and democracy and civil rights, human rights and the press to inform empower people to keep those things working.
So it should come as no surprise that I have told our political editors and writers that in this election cycle we are covering not just the fortunes of individual candidates and ballot issues, but of democracy itself......
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New York Emmy Nominations: News 12 Dominates Field; Telemundo & Univision Outlets Top All Others

News 12 dominated with 80 nominations for the 65th annual New York Emmy Awards nominations, which were revealed today.

The NY chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Telemundo’s WNJU squeezed past Univision’s WXTY for second place, 53 noms to 52. Spectrum News NY1 and MSG Networks tied for fourth place with 45 nominations apiece, just ahead of WNBC News’ 44.

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CNN chief says ‘uninformed vitriol’ from left has been ‘stunning’

Chris Licht, who became CEO of CNN earlier this year, said he has been surprised by the “uninformed vitriol” directed at him from liberals as he attempts to shift the network’s editorial direction, in a series of interviews with The New York Times.

Licht took over the network in May, making a series of staffing and programmatic changes that have sparked buzz about Licht aiming for a more centrist slant.

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The whole idea that CNN can legitimately be called liberal is name calling. Mommy, he called me the "L" word.

CNN has always been about the bottom line. It might have been founded by a known liberal at the time it happened, but that never kept CNN from knowing who was important to their economic success.

Don't forget that the author of the Army War College paper that first laid out the US military's control of what the public sees deliberately subtitled it "Winning CNN Wars." Even at its most objective, CNN allows certain influential elements to exercise the power of the purse. That's a core value in any medium as expensive as TV. Gotta sell those ads. In the end, it's the golden rule: the guy with the gold makes the rules.
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They're right this is nothing but a bullshit publicity stunt but they got their money. *problem*

National Press Club blasts Nexstar Media Group over ‘shameful’ LIV Golf deal

The National Press Club issued a scathing rebuke late Thursday of the Nexstar Media Group, the parent company of the CW Network, over a TV deal the company agreed to this week with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league.

In a statement lambasting the television rights deal — LIV Golf’s first — as a “shameful PR stunt,” National Press Club President Jen Judson said her group is “disappointed that a company that makes money from news like Nexstar would agree to participate” in broadcasting the league’s tournaments.

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The media are no different than Formula One, the movie business, or any other such operation that I know anything about. It's all about the money. Follow the cash and you know all you need to know. Unlike the rhetoric they give in press interviews, the money says the truth. As often as not, the truth hurts.

Self-regulation clashes with personal interest in most cases, and so it usually doesn't work.
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Markey moves to protect community TV

AMHERST — Continued cable television cord-cutting by consumers is creating financial challenges for community access television, a problem compounded by Federal Communications Commission rules that appear to favor cable companies over the stations that broadcast public meetings, municipal events and assorted programs.

To confront this challenge, Massachusetts Sen. Edward J. Markey, as a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, recently reintroduced the “Protecting Community Television Act” with committee colleague Sen. Tammy Baldwin. D-Wisconsin, and Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, D-California, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

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WILL wins race-based discrimination lawsuit against Comcast’s ‘woke corporate policies’

(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty has won another case based on the argument that you cannot discriminate against people based on their sex or the color of their skin.

WILL recently settled a case with Comcast over the company’s Comcast RISE program. That program offered grants to small businesses, but only if they are 51% owned by someone who is “Black, indigenous, a person of color, or female.”

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Nancy Kaffer named Detroit Free Press editorial page editor
Nancy Kaffer, a national award-winning columnist, has been named editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press. Kaffer, 47, is the first woman in the newspaper’s 191-year history to hold that title.

In more than 10 years at the Free Press, she has been a columnist and member of the editorial board. She wrote about politics, policy and the complicated relationship between the two, from Detroit’s historic municipal bankruptcy to the backlog of untested sexual assault kits in Detroit to the Flint water crisis.

She believes that the Free Press’ editorial page, in print and online, should reflect the diversity of our community......
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Sounds like a good move.
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Pay TV and Cable Providers Lost 5.8M Subscribers in 2022

Top cable and traditional pay TV providers in the U.S. widened their subscriber losses in 2022, as more consumers continue to cut the cord.

The largest pay-TV providers lost a total of 5.8 million net video subscribers in 2022, compared to a loss of 4.7 million in 2021, according to the latest tally from Leichtman Research Group. The pain was felt most acutely among the cable providers, who saw a total loss of 3.5 million subscribers in 2022, compared to 2.7 million in 2021. Of those, Comcast saw the biggest drop, losing just over 2 million subscribers, followed by Charter, with a loss of 686,000, and an estimated drop of 340,000 for Cox.

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ap215 wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 2:31 pm Pay TV and Cable Providers Lost 5.8M Subscribers in 2022

Top cable and traditional pay TV providers in the U.S. widened their subscriber losses in 2022, as more consumers continue to cut the cord.

The largest pay-TV providers lost a total of 5.8 million net video subscribers in 2022, compared to a loss of 4.7 million in 2021, according to the latest tally from Leichtman Research Group. The pain was felt most acutely among the cable providers, who saw a total loss of 3.5 million subscribers in 2022, compared to 2.7 million in 2021. Of those, Comcast saw the biggest drop, losing just over 2 million subscribers, followed by Charter, with a loss of 686,000, and an estimated drop of 340,000 for Cox.

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Cable is reaping what they sowed. For decades they had a monopoly and treated customers like crap.
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Streaming is the new god, and like all the old gods it will become the same old same old. Given what we've seen, probably faster than most. In 20 years all we'll be reading about is how people are starting to cut the USB bus instead of the CATV coaxial cable. Its replacement hasn't been invented yet, but it will be.

It won't matter to me, because I participate in this culture as little as possible and still maintain an income. I still haven't forgiven the suits for turning the movies into teenage slush, and that was even before the great routed IP networking god made everything else heresy.
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Federal Judge Dismisses Circle City Discrimination Suits Against DirecTV, Dish

A U.S. District Court Judge on Friday dismissed lawsuits brought by Circle City Broadcasting charging that DirecTV and Dish discriminated against Circle City because it was a Black-owned business.

Circle City owner Dujuan McCoy said he planned to appeal the decision. He also said he would work to prevent DirecTV and Dish from merging.


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Reorganization my ass Sinclair is still Sinclair they're 100% full of shit.

Sinclair Sets Reorganization, Creating New Holding Company Sinclair Inc.

Sinclair Broadcast Group said it plans a reorganization that would create a new publicly traded holding company for its broadcast and other assets.

The new holding company will be called Sinclair Inc. It will have two divisions: Sinclair Broadcast Group and Sinclair Ventures.

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When in doubt, change the name of the company, make it harder to find out who owns it, and shake up management a tiny amount. Then do the same old shit.

Standard procedure for those people.
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Members of Congress Urge Review of Discovery-WarnerMedia Merger

A group of Democratic Congress members has sent a letter urging the Justice Department to conduct a post-merger review of the WarnerMedia-Discovery deal because of actions by Warner Bros. Discovery.

Since Discovery acquired WarnerMedia from AT&T, the new company has done things that have heightened barriers to entry for workers in the media and entertainment industry, hurt competition for industry workers and reduced choice for media consumers, the legislators assert.

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ap215 wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2023 9:58 am WILL wins race-based discrimination lawsuit against Comcast’s ‘woke corporate policies’

(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty has won another case based on the argument that you cannot discriminate against people based on their sex or the color of their skin.

WILL recently settled a case with Comcast over the company’s Comcast RISE program. That program offered grants to small businesses, but only if they are 51% owned by someone who is “Black, indigenous, a person of color, or female.”

https://www.thecentersquare.com/wiscons ... 2bfb8.html
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty…now that is funny. Another “protect white people” group.
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bird wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 7:06 am Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty…now that is funny. Another “protect white people” group.
How terrible the court ruled you can't discriminate against people
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Glennfs wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 7:07 am How terrible the court ruled you can't discriminate against people
If a corporation decides it wants to promote certain programs that used to be OK until white people who have been top rail for 400+ years in North America suddenly felt put upon. You simply cannot abide that the “other” has revolted against white people and that companies have on occasion chosen to pursue what will be the largest target audience/demographic.

Too bad, old white man.
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bird wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 7:11 am If a corporation decides it wants to promote certain programs that used to be OK until white people who have been top rail for 400+ years in North America suddenly felt put upon. You simply cannot abide that the “other” has revolted against white people and that companies have on occasion chosen to pursue what will be the largest target audience/demographic.

Too bad, old white man.
So it is ok when white people are excluded because of their race.
Personally I wish people were judged by the content of their character
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Glennfs wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 8:14 am So it is ok when white people are excluded because of their race.
Personally I wish people were judged by the content of their character
When power holders actually permit that it would be wonderful. Unfortunately, you are a blind, deaf and dumb conservative Utopianist. As long as “white” is deemed to hold innate superiority your utopia won’t happen. And since racism in the west can be traced back over at least 1000 years it isn’t going to change any time soon. This applies especially in a country that was founded on racism.
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