Ratings Collapse And Layoffs Are Making The Media Go Crazy

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🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Ratings Collapse And Layoffs Are Making The Media Go Crazy. Media ratings are failing and as these companies become more desperate for views so they can make money they turn to far left activists to push ragebait content and nonsense.

Vox recently published a video claiming that Fox news is in control of the political narrative. The only problem? You can easily fact check some of their claims to see they are not true. They claimed that Hillary's email server was a non issue but Fox News pushed it so everyone else followed. Except it was the New York Times and the AP that pushed that story not Fox News.

CNN recently rushed to the defense of the democrats and nancy pelosi over a video they thought made her look bad. Why would they do that? It seems they are in desperate need for news and something that will enrage people. It worked. Delete Facebook started trending among outraged leftists.

It's no surprise to hear that just the other day another story emerged about CNN layoffs coming

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0:00.0	One of the things I've been warning about as media slowly collapses is that as they lose their
0:05.7	viewership they will become increasingly desperate thrashing about trying to stay afloat.
0:10.6	The news stories will get crazier and crazier. They will hire more and more activists because it's
0:15.0	cheaper and it's going to get particularly bad. If you thought the smears were bad two years ago,
0:19.6	three years ago, wait till you see what comes next. Because another story, CNN is expecting more
0:27.4	layoffs. See, it was only a couple of weeks ago that Brian Stelter, the media reporter of CNN,
0:32.3	said, no, no, no, layoffs aren't coming. Trust me. The spokesperson for CNN,
0:36.5	shooting those down. It's a media, it's a bio, it's a voluntary bio. Meaning if you leave the
0:41.6	company, they'll pay you out. Then what happened? About a week ago layoffs were announced.
0:46.6	And now we're hearing it again. More layoffs announced at CNN. We also have this story.
0:51.4	Local newspaper giant gatehouse media is laying off journalists across the US in cuts. Their CEO is
0:56.9	calling it material. As these companies lay more and more people off, they turn to cheaper and
1:02.9	cheaper individuals to hire. They turn to people who can generate clickbait and ragebait articles
1:07.9	that will make them some money. And the activists emerge. We then see completely nonsensical and
1:13.8	insane stories like this from Vox. You're watching Fox News. You just don't know it. Where they
1:20.3	can they they actually state things like Hillary's email scandal only became news because Fox
1:26.4	willed it so, which is an insane conspiracy theory that says one important thing to me. Vox and the
1:33.2	other progressive digital media outlets like it are in the minority and the fringe. But from their
1:39.2	bubble, they think everything is far right and a right wing conspiracy. So the only reason
1:45.2	anyone would talk about Hillary's emails is because Fox News will did so. But guess what?
1:50.3	Fact check. That's absolutely not true. And this is weird conspiracy nonsense coming from Vox.
1:57.2	And there's a good reason why. They're going to start failing just like everybody else and even
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