Media Bias

[Giantone]

Jimmy Kimmel Told ABC He’d Quit if Execs Stopped Him From Making Trump Jokes: ‘They Knew I Was Serious’

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/jim...es-1235422576/

Jimmy Kimmel revealed on the most recent episode of Sticher’s “Naked Lunch” podcast that he threatened to quit his ABC talk show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” when ABC executives expressed apprehension over him telling jokes about Donald Trump. It appears the execs once spoke to Kimmel about laying off Trump in order to not alienate Republican viewers. Kimmel said ABC execs were right in their apprehension, as he estimates he lost around half of his audience due to Trump jokes.

“There was one time, right around the beginning of this whole Trump thing… maybe not quite [eight years ago],” Kimmel said when asked if ABC ever expressed concern to him about attacking Trump. “I said listen, I get it, you’re right. I have lost half of my fanbase, maybe more. Ten years ago, among Republicans I was the most popular talk show. At least according to the research they did.”

[Chico23231]

Adam Carolla > Jimmy Kimmel

Sad, but true

[MTK]

Not many people are less funny than Adam Carolla.

Gilbert Godfried maybe, but he was mostly just annoying.

[Chico23231]

https://wtop.com/national/2022/11/cn...ter-two-years/

See ya Shepherd Smith!

Jake Tapper also lost his primetime show this week…along with Tiffany Cross outright fired from MSNBC.

Think folks getting a lil tired of the fake news

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Think folks getting a lil tired of the fake news

Except for you, you post it all the time.

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/21/10528...ge-documentary

https://www.foxnews.com/media/chris-...x-news-channel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...b37_story.html

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

https://wtop.com/national/2022/11/cn...ter-two-years/

See ya Shepherd Smith!

Jake Tapper also lost his primetime show this week…along with Tiffany Cross outright fired from MSNBC.

Think folks getting a lil tired of the fake news

Dude. You are literally a mouth piece for fake news.

[mooby]

While we're on the subject of fake news.

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/stat...ISpy8P3HRDEl7g

https://twitter.com/SundaeDivine/sta...98570521239553

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1588059555031678977

[BaltimoreSkins]

I’ll tell you what media bias is, my wife telling me I’m six inches when I think I’m 8

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Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins

I’ll tell you what media bias is, my wife telling me I’m six inches when I think I’m 8

LMAO

[Chico23231]

Matt Taibbi, well known liberal reporter nails it again:

Be it Resolved: Don't Trust Mainstream Media
My opening remarks for the Munk Debates in Toronto tonight

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/be-it-..._campaign=post

National Surveys on the media have long killed the “this is a ring wing only narrative”, Matt Taibbi brings some receipts

[SunnySide]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Matt Taibbi, well known liberal reporter nails it again:

Be it Resolved: Don't Trust Mainstream Media
My opening remarks for the Munk Debates in Toronto tonight

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/be-it-..._campaign=post

National Surveys on the media have long killed the “this is a ring wing only narrative”, Matt Taibbi brings some receipts

When Fox had success targeting suburban and rural, mostly white, mostly older conservatives – the late Fox News chief Roger Ailes infamously described his audience as “55 to dead” – other companies soon followed suit.

Now everyone does it. Whether it’s Fox, or MSNBC, or CNN, or the Washington Post, nearly all Western media outlets are in the demographic-hunting business. This may be less true in Canada, where there’s a stronger public media tradition, but in the U.S., it’s standard.

Call it the “audience-optimization” model: instead of starting with a story and following the facts, you start with what pleases your audience, and work backward to the story. In this system, the overwhelming majority of national media organizations cater to one “side” or the other. For instance, according to a Pew Center survey from a few years ago, 93% of Fox’s audience votes Republican, while in an exactly mirroring phenomenon, MSNBC’s audience is 95% Democratic.

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From your article .. pretty straight forward opinion piece really.Main stream media is mostly "political entertainment" at this point.

Anyone who unconditionally believes what Tucker Carlson or Don Lemon tell you ... they are just enjoying their daily trip to their confirmation bias watering hole.

Conservatives watch Carlson so they are reassured they are right and the other s are wrong.

Same for the left.

When I read articles I just look for direct quotes and objective blurbs in there.

I dont read many "opinion" pieces like this. I dont need someones interpretation of facts to be snow balled into my mouth like some baby bird.

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You could have put this is the common ground thread -- mainstream media is bias.

[Chico23231]

Meat potatoes from the article:

In the zeal to “hold Trump accountable,” or oppose figures like Vladimir Putin, ethical guardrails have been tossed out. Silent edits have become common. Serious accusations are made without calling people for comment. Reporters get too cozy with politicians, and as a result report information either without attribution at all or sourced to unnamed officials or “people familiar with the matter.” Like scientists, journalists should be able to reproduce each other’s work in the lab. With too many anonymous sources, this becomes impossible.

Normalization of bad ethics. That’s it, that’s the story

[SunnySide]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Meat potatoes from the article:

In the zeal to “hold Trump accountable,” or oppose figures like Vladimir Putin, ethical guardrails have been tossed out. Silent edits have become common. Serious accusations are made without calling people for comment. Reporters get too cozy with politicians, and as a result report information either without attribution at all or sourced to unnamed officials or “people familiar with the matter.” Like scientists, journalists should be able to reproduce each other’s work in the lab. With too many anonymous sources, this becomes impossible.

Normalization of bad ethics. That’s it, that’s the story

I take from this substack "all media is bias" ... your take "left media is bias"

C'est la vie.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

I take from this substack "all media is bias" ... your take "left media is bias"

C'est la vie.

Absolutely as most journalists are leftist. The problem in the argument now is I can actually go to Journalists social media and verify their bias. Prior to social media, you “felt” there was bias, now it facts from them directly. I’m not talking clown shows like huff, slate, salon, daily beast, Atlantic…I’m talking the major news organizations.

That’s the change, that’s the meat and the potatoes

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Absolutely as most journalists are leftist. The problem in the argument now is I can actually go to Journalists social media and verify their bias. Prior to social media, you “felt” there was bias, now it facts from them directly. I’m not talking clown shows like huff, slate, salon, daily beast, Atlantic…I’m talking the major news organizations.

That’s the change, that’s the meat and the potatoes