Is it racist imaging or shoddy graphics work? It's likely the latter but the entire media market suffers from even a scant trace of the former. I wonder why they didn't use our professional headshots...🤔🤔🤔@WDRBNews pic.twitter.com/ldupshQQZg — Timothy Findley, Jr. (@TimFindleyJr) November 13, 2021 Our media business is filled with underpaid young "journalists" who lack depth of perspective. Nonetheless, this unbalanced imagery is preposterously ignorant. Where is management oversight? Wow. Debating whether this is explicit or implicit bias. Either way, this is a typical narrative. @WDRBNews producers, reporters, editor should all be required to take bias training and someone at the top should apologize for this. https://t.co/ALVum1uk1Y — Sadiqa (@SadiqaReynolds) November 14, 2021 Media companies have cut payrolls so severely over the past decade that news employees
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ACCUSATORY MEDIA – Never mind the pandemic. Let’s hashtag!
Keen analysis from @MZHemingway. @Yamiche is clearly an activist masquerading as a journalist, e.g. when she tried to connect American nationalism to racism.It’s appalling that taxpayers fund part of her salary.https://t.co/JwfXQiJPJr https://t.co/D5oI46f788— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) April 2, 2020 The codependency of an adversarial media vs. a narcissistic president produces skewed news. This is a glowing example of how our media business has crashed and burned. As comedian Jon Stewart pointed out years ago, media egos took the bait and no straight reporting has been produced since.
Polls are fool’s gold, coffee is for closers
Fewer than 1% of homeowners put political signs in their yards because it's no one else's business as to how they vote. That's why media reports about election "polls" are so whacked. The sample size of willing participants is tiny. And usually wrong. Do pollsters get paid or are they producing these elaborate pranks for free? Modern polling is terribly flawed and only advances lazy journalism. A media outlet will only post or broadcast poll results if (a) they have space to fill, (b) there is a shocking change from previous polling, or (c) a media person with the authority to choose whether a "story" merits publication is happily amplifying their own bias. With Kentucky's election just a few weeks away,
I just received my first vicarious A in school
On Apr 20, 2019, at 9:11 PM, Emma wrote: Hello Mr. Meiners, My name is Emma Boggess, and I am a Louisville resident, as well as a student at Miami University in Ohio. I am currently working on a project about local media and journalism, and was referred to you by Chelsea Rabideau. Would you be able to answer a few questions over email about local journalism in Louisville and how you think it has changed over the years? If you’d be able to do this, please let me know! Thank you, Emma Boggess ----- On Apr 20, 2019, at 9:45 PM, Emma wrote: Thank you so much for your help! I listed below the questions I’ve put together. Feel free to take a
Schiff Happens – Liberals bamboozled again as “Russian to judgment” pays no rubles
"I applaud you, Donnie! NBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, and The New York Times worked it as hard as they could yet came up with a nothing burger. I am heartbroken but still powerful, Donnie! Go ahead and shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. Apparently no one can do anything about it!" Poor sad Liberals. Our lefty media spoon feeds them hope every day that "it's the beginning of the end" for Donald Trump because "the walls are closing in." Breathless media reports of BOMBSHELL BREAKING NEWS stories that declare "there's no way out" for Trump. Hahahahaha. Nope. There is much fresh sadness in Liberal Land. After months of hysterical news reports about the Mueller investigation into Donald Trump's OBVIOUS collusion with Russians,
Represent.us — Welcome to the Jennifer Lawrence civics class and the things she left out
For over two years, America's news anchors have been breathlessly declaring that Donald Trump's presidency "is near the end" with daily BOMBSHELL reports of "the walls closing in" toward impeachment. Louisville actor Jennifer Lawrence and her politically active friends claim they're offering a nonpartisan solution to America's hysteria-driven news cycle. Jennifer Lawrence and Represent.us have a strategy to change our political system. Will it fly? What Jennifer is not acknowledging is that too many megaphones with differing opinions all monetize misery. MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, et al. make a living by siding with liberals on virtually every issue, always demonizing the conservatives. Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart, et al. do the same thing in reverse. THere's money in them
Media is really individual people and people are not objective
There is no shortage of public discourse about biased media. I've spent 40+ years in media with hundreds of colleagues in radio, TV, and print. Media is absolutely staffed with at least 85% liberal leaning people. That's not a slam, just a fact. When liberals are asked about this imbalance, they immediately reply "FOX NEWS!" OK, yes. Fox News, Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh, and a host of smaller conservative outlets still only make up that one piece of pumpkin pie seen above. The rest of the pie represents the liberal influence in the delivery of news products. Journalism instructors are supposed to teach critical thinking and discipline for objectivity but human behavior ultimately prevails in everything we do. Former CBS
BOMBSHELL DUD! when American media allows Buzzfeed to lead the news, well, the media looks stupid and partisan
Every morning, NBC's TODAY Show starts with some sort of breathless, hysteria-driven BOMBSHELL news story on Trump. It's so predictable that the Boy Who Cried Wolf would advise "yeah, you may want to get that verified, nitwits." So now we are letting BUZZFEED (the web home of fart jokes and quizzes about naming genitals) lead the news on traditional media outlets? Our media industry looks ridiculous. But, we are about to TAKE DOWN TRUMP so any port in a storm. Buzzfeed = The New York Times if it is negative about Trump. Let's run with it as the lead story!!!!! “One TX Democrat now says if this explosive new report is true, Pres. Trump must either resign or be impeached.”@halliejackson has
Let’s have a Happy News Year, media peeps
Ever since Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, much of the news media universe has pounded him. And he hates them back. He brings it on himself. Trump is rude, arrogant, thoughtless, narcissistic, and ill-tempered. He uses Twitter to insult political enemies and even some private citizens with whom he disagrees. Certain media people are rude, arrogant, thoughtless, narcissistic, and ill-tempered. But they're not the president. That's the difference. Trump's war with media has been his biggest conundrum and an odd victory for his supporters. With the President of the United States constantly declaring any criticism as "fake news," it has weakened the overall perception of the media business even if it has bolstered the subscription rates and TV ratings of
MEDIA MELTDOWN – It’s all in the editing, narrative, or omission
Which one of these two photographs generated overwhelming news reports and analysis? You already know the answer. DUDE! MERKEL HATES TRUMP! It's indicative of the way the WORLD HATES TRUMP! Write the story! Post it! Talk about it! Trump RUINED OUR STANDING IN THE WORLD! Oh wait. Here's a different photo from the same meeting. But don't write stories about this. Acrimony is clickbait. This kind of false hysteria is why our media business is melting down. Partisan reporting has crushed our credibility as people now cling to flavored news that is skewed to their personal bias. Sad! It's all in the editing. @weijia asks @realDonaldTrump a question and then shouts him down