meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Tim Pool Daily News

Mass Layoffs Hit Leftist News, Huffington Post and Buzzfeed

Tim Pool Daily News

Timcast Media

Politics, News

4.47.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Mass Layoffs Hit Leftist News Websites, Journalists Fired. Buzzfeed will lose 250+ staff in a massive round of layoffs Huffington Post will lose an unknown number of staff but it could be comparable.It won't end here, leftist news sites have continually felt failure over the past few years with many far left sites and left wing digital publications losing money and laying off staffers. This was all predicted by former VICE CEO Shane Smith years ago.But BUzzfeed has a strategy for survival, cookware. I kid you not Buzzfeed has been selling two different brands of cookware online and in Wal Mart to make ends meet. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Digital media is in dire straits. Buzzfeed announced mass laughs, so did the Huffington Post.

0:05.2

Buzzfeed is looking to lose about 15% of its staff. We don't know how many people Huffington

0:10.5

Post is going to trim down, but their parent company Verizon needs to cut 7% of its workforce.

0:15.9

We're at a time of massive distrust in the media. We just saw a whole bunch of fake news scandals

0:21.8

where people just don't think any of this is true or worth buying into it at this point.

0:27.0

Why pay 4 stores from the Washington Post when Twitter users break news faster than they do?

0:32.2

Why bother with Buzzfeed when the Mueller team came out and discredited their major bombshell

0:36.5

reporting? A lot of people make fun of Alex Jones and Info Wars because they pedal supplements,

0:41.6

and they say that's all Info Wars is. In reality, Buzzfeed isn't too dissimilar.

0:46.7

One of their strategies for survival has been to sell cookware and not just one brand, too.

0:53.6

Today, I want to talk about the real reason these media companies are failing,

0:58.0

and I want to highlight one of their prime strategies for survival, becoming cookware companies.

1:04.6

Seriously. But before we get started, please head over to TimCask.com for its last

1:08.8

donate if you want to support my work. There's a monthly donation option, there's a crypto currency

1:12.9

option, I have a physical address, there's even a shop where you can buy clothing, I've designed

1:16.4

myself, but more importantly, you can always just share this video if you want to help spread the

1:21.2

message. From CNN, Buzzfeed to cut 15% of staff in a new round of layoffs. Buzzfeed is preparing to

1:27.6

announce a significant round of layoffs according to sources familiar with the matter. The coming

1:31.5

contraction is the latest example of digital media companies having to make cutbacks in a difficult

1:36.2

operating environment. One of the sources said the layoffs will affect 15% of the company's workforce,

1:41.4

the reductions will involve multiple departments including the news division. Staffers have been

1:46.0

bracing for bad news for days. Employees had learned senior editors were being flown into Buzzfeed's

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Timcast Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Timcast Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.