Cable News Chaos. Does it Matter?
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
It's been a wild ride for the media these last few weeks. First Fox settles its Dominion lawsuit by paying nearly $800 million. But they escaped an apology. Then a few days later they fired Tucker Carlson, the highest rated host in prime-time cable news. Then that same day CNN fires Don Lemon. And as a backdrop to all this high-profile news, is the undercurrent of heavy layoffs in the media field, at NPR, at Vice News, at BuzzFeed News and the Gannett newspapers. Who better to break this all down and explain its impact on us than Erik Wemple, the Media Critic for the Washington Post, focusing on cable news.
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| 1:05.4 | Hello, good friends. Good to see you again. And welcome back to the Bill Press pod. You know, well, it's been a wild couple of weeks for the media at At the last minute, Fox News settled its Dominion lawsuit, |
| 1:14.0 | and then a couple of days later, fired Top Anchor Tucker Carlson. |
| 1:17.9 | The same day, CNN fired one of its top hosts, Don Lemon, |
| 1:22.4 | and this on top of big layoffs at NPR, Vice News, Gannett, BuzzFeed, and other news outlets. |
| 1:30.1 | Altogether, some 3,000 media jobs have been cut so far this year. |
| 1:36.4 | And at last weekend's White House Correspondent's dinner, in fact, there was more talk |
| 1:40.7 | about how bad things are for reporters these days than there was talk about the |
| 1:46.0 | First Amendment. So have we seen the end of this media massacre? And what's Tucker Carlson's |
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