The Media is Imploding!

Peak Prosperity

Chris Martenson

Business, Government, Investing

4.7 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The mainstream media has finally surprised me. Not with improved reporting and finally providing context or being truthful. But with its inability to self-correct even when its own jobs and survival are on the line.

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0:00.0	Bad news, everyone.
0:01.1	The media keeps lying through sins of omission and commission where they leave stuff out.
0:05.7	Sometimes they just outright lie.
0:07.6	Good news.
0:08.7	They're busy putting themselves out of business.
0:11.2	Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of miscreants.
0:38.0	Hello, everyone. I am Dr. Chris Martin's in the peak prosperity. I am your information scout. I am here to save you some time. I go through. I scour the world's news endlessly. And then I spend time wrestling in its shape, understanding it, and presenting it. So hopefully you can learn something from it.
0:42.6	Hey, agree with me or disagree with me. I ask that you just listen and then if you do disagree,
0:47.1	bring the data. Today we're going to talk about this. The media keeps killing itself. This is a really important story to understand because this is one of the ways in which our country, our lives,
0:52.6	are being diminished, if not destroyed. It's very important we get
0:55.9	stuff right. So this is the odiest. Taylor Lorenz displaying zero self-awareness as she talks
1:02.1	about the implosion of her precious industry. Let's listen in.
1:05.1	Our journalism industry is basically in a free fall. Today, the Los Angeles Times laid off 115
1:10.4	employees. They wiped out their entire DC bureau in an free fall. Today the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 employees. They wiped out their
1:12.1	entire DC bureau in an election year. They laid off pretty much all of their sports teams. They
1:17.3	killed their entire tech and business section. They laid off breaking news writers, social media
1:21.8	editors. The list goes on. But what's really dark is this is just the latest in months and
1:27.1	months and months of
1:28.2	layoffs in the media industry. In fact, tens of thousands of journalists have been laid off in
1:33.8	the past year. Major media companies like BuzzFeed News have completely shuttered their news
1:38.0	operations. Time magazine also just laid off a ton of people and oh, Sports Illustrated basically
1:42.8	shut down last week. Pretty much the
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