FALL OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Several mainstream media outlets have been forced to make drastic staff cuts due to low ratings and fire high level employees due to misconduct. In its place has risen a vastly unique array of citizen journalists grabbing enormous market share and viewers from the defunct mainstream media apparatus . Seeing the trend, mainstream rejects such as Chris Cuomo have abandoned ship to infiltrate the ‘alternative’ space hoping the public will forget their past.

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0:00.0	At the high wire, we've worked to maintain the highest standard of transparency and integrity
0:06.4	and evidence-based investigative journalism.
0:08.8	Something that's very hard to do in this landscape today.
0:11.2	One of the ways that we do that is we put the power of this information that we have directly
0:14.9	from the source as we find it into the viewer's hands.
0:17.6	They can get that every Monday when they sign up for our newsletter.
0:20.5	They get all the sources, all the documents. And this is called the High Wire Protocol.
0:24.8	And this is something we really pride ourselves on here. And we have lots of core values,
0:29.1	five of them, and particularly the ones I want to focus on, again, integrity, independence,
0:34.1	transparency, accountability. Why am I talking about this? Well, currently, we are in the middle of,
0:41.6	I would describe this as a century defining shift in the media landscape. And it's no less than that.
0:48.6	We brought to you just a couple weeks ago how Vice was shutting down. And I'm going to start going
0:53.2	through what this means for the viewers.
0:55.0	Vice Media prepares to file for bankruptcy, and that was the headline of Wall Street Journal.
0:59.0	And from there, we keep going.
1:02.0	LA Times.
1:03.0	They're announcing now, Los Angeles Times announces 74 job cuts due to economic challenges.
1:09.0	Wonder why they started making cuts. Could it be reporting
1:12.5	that looked a little bit like this during COVID? This is mocking anti-vaxxers, COVID deaths,
1:18.2	is ghoulish, yes, but may be necessary. Okay. You don't want to revel in someone losing their
1:24.0	job, but I mean, it's a time has come if you're going to start keep talking like that with all the evidence that's out there but looking
1:30.9	at the whole industry and not just focusing on one or the other the media
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