The Free Press is more conservative than you think. I subscribed back when it was called Common Sense, hoping for evenhanded journalism that would fairly represent some conservative principles without falling into the MAGAsphere black hole. What I got was a constant stream of "look at these crazy/evil libs and how they're trying to destroy the country!!!" Bad stuff.
Absolutely. As someone who has been, at times, critical of some of the excesses of the left, I was interested initially in their mission. It very quickly it just turned out to be nonsense, or at least just a thinly veiled way to settle grudges with some of the people in the traditional media they felt had wronged them.
"Sidenote - why do we always describe sudden rises as meteoric? Isn’t the defining feature of a meteor that it falls, never to rise again?"
From your lips to God's ears.
Honestly, I only really became aware of Weiss when she was going through that shit with the rest of the NYT newsroom, and I had some sympathy for her situation there....but then every single decision she's made since then has clocked in and worked Sundays to push me hard away from her, the FP as an entity, and anyone associated with it.
The double standards and finger-on-the-scaleness that entire clown car showed during the '24 election was embarrassing. It was a thousand different iterations of "Hilary the Hawk, Donald the Dove" but for the "muh free speech" crowd. Anyone with two eyes, a brain, and a memory longer than five years could tell you that there might not ever have existed an American President *less* interested in free speech than this jamoke. He believes in free speech the exact same way he believes in Christianity, and to see them parse every single word of Harris's speeches while hand-waving Trump's flaws was the height of journalistic malpractice.
My question, which applies to a lot of what is happening in the Trump era, is what happens on day one after Trump? While I am sympathetic to the idea that a tit for tat battle just further erodes democratic norms and have concerns about further infringement on the first amendment, I don't think these sort of flagrant bribes can pass with impunity. This sort of behavior has to result in repercussions, lest we think that whatever inhereter of the MAGA movement won't try the exact same thing in a less ham handed approach. The consolidation of media amongst MAGA friendly billionaires seems very similar to the consolidation of Russian media and industry
The right has portrayed the "mainstream media" as left-wing for decades. This is helped by the fact that most journalists are left-leaning (and have gotten increasingly so), though media company owners are rarely lefty and are often right leaning. As this article shows, the owners are moving further toward the right, specifically to placate Trump.
This highlights a problem that has been increasingly common throughout our economy: consolidation. Nearly every industry is engaged in mergers, acquisitions, and consolidation which serves to funnel financial power down to a select few entities who then can effectively wield it with great influence. Nexstar and Sinclair are prime examples.
Thanks for pointing out this issue in the media space. It’s clearly concerning, especially when paired with an authoritarian-esque executive who only has to apply pressure at few points to achieve his/her goals.
The Free Press is more conservative than you think. I subscribed back when it was called Common Sense, hoping for evenhanded journalism that would fairly represent some conservative principles without falling into the MAGAsphere black hole. What I got was a constant stream of "look at these crazy/evil libs and how they're trying to destroy the country!!!" Bad stuff.
Absolutely. As someone who has been, at times, critical of some of the excesses of the left, I was interested initially in their mission. It very quickly it just turned out to be nonsense, or at least just a thinly veiled way to settle grudges with some of the people in the traditional media they felt had wronged them.
"Sidenote - why do we always describe sudden rises as meteoric? Isn’t the defining feature of a meteor that it falls, never to rise again?"
From your lips to God's ears.
Honestly, I only really became aware of Weiss when she was going through that shit with the rest of the NYT newsroom, and I had some sympathy for her situation there....but then every single decision she's made since then has clocked in and worked Sundays to push me hard away from her, the FP as an entity, and anyone associated with it.
The double standards and finger-on-the-scaleness that entire clown car showed during the '24 election was embarrassing. It was a thousand different iterations of "Hilary the Hawk, Donald the Dove" but for the "muh free speech" crowd. Anyone with two eyes, a brain, and a memory longer than five years could tell you that there might not ever have existed an American President *less* interested in free speech than this jamoke. He believes in free speech the exact same way he believes in Christianity, and to see them parse every single word of Harris's speeches while hand-waving Trump's flaws was the height of journalistic malpractice.
My question, which applies to a lot of what is happening in the Trump era, is what happens on day one after Trump? While I am sympathetic to the idea that a tit for tat battle just further erodes democratic norms and have concerns about further infringement on the first amendment, I don't think these sort of flagrant bribes can pass with impunity. This sort of behavior has to result in repercussions, lest we think that whatever inhereter of the MAGA movement won't try the exact same thing in a less ham handed approach. The consolidation of media amongst MAGA friendly billionaires seems very similar to the consolidation of Russian media and industry
The right has portrayed the "mainstream media" as left-wing for decades. This is helped by the fact that most journalists are left-leaning (and have gotten increasingly so), though media company owners are rarely lefty and are often right leaning. As this article shows, the owners are moving further toward the right, specifically to placate Trump.
This highlights a problem that has been increasingly common throughout our economy: consolidation. Nearly every industry is engaged in mergers, acquisitions, and consolidation which serves to funnel financial power down to a select few entities who then can effectively wield it with great influence. Nexstar and Sinclair are prime examples.
Thanks for pointing out this issue in the media space. It’s clearly concerning, especially when paired with an authoritarian-esque executive who only has to apply pressure at few points to achieve his/her goals.