TV Keeps Losing Ground – Bye Chuck Todd, Jim Acosta

February 5, 2025 — bunkerville

It would be easy to miss the fact that we just bid adieu to Chucky Todd and Jim Acosta from the tube. Fired as they used to say. As the old guard media continues on its perilous decline into oblivion, let us take the time to mark the event. We read about the declining numbers of eyeballs over at CNN and MSNBC? It turns out that is just the tip of the action.

Zero Hedge fills us in:

Just 59 percent of people surveyed by Statista Consumer Insights in the United States in 2024 had watched linear television in the last twelve months. (Classic TV)

In contrast, 86 percent said they had watched digital videos during the same time period.

As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, the decline of classic TV continues…

Infographic: TV Keeps Losing Ground | Statista

Gone gone gone….. and he wonders why.

Former NBC News Employee Chuck Todd Has Meltdown Over Elon Musk: He Destroyed the ‘Trusted Information Ecosystem’ (VIDEO)

Former NBC news political pundit and moderator of “Meet The Press” Chuck Todd is railing against Elon Musk and his recent efforts to trim spending and make major alterations to large swaths of the federal government.

Comments:

“Oh no. Ferreting out corruption and the sleazy abuse of our taxpayer dollars (while we are 36 trillion in debt) is “an affront to democracy” Good lord. We are making ALL the right people angry…”

Key phrase from Chuck…“as far as MY definition of America is.” Chuck….your definition of America got you fired from discussing the daily events with Americans.

Let’s check in with Rita over at Sky.

Rita’s Weekly Reality Check for all you “non-linear’ types.

‘Good riddance’: TV host farewells ‘blabbering idiots’ Jim Acosta and Chuck Todd

Sky News host Rita Panahi discussed News Anchor’s James Acosta leaving CNN and Chuck Todd leaving NBC. Ms Panahi labelled James Acosta as “one of the worst of the fake news machinery”. “A man whose Trump derangement syndrome had him reduced to a blabbering idiot,” she said.

That’s a wrap… keep the good times keeping on Donald.

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15,000 Media and Entertainment Jobs were Lost Last Year

December 23, 2024 — bunkerville

People are fed up with fake news and movies about the worst of us. A Gallup poll shows that only 31 percent of people believe the news saying they had a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence the media will report the news “fully, accurately and fairly.” With alternative news sources such as “X” and YouTube as well as podcasts,  people are no longer stuck with limited options.

Breitbart picks up the story:

The year keeps getting better, with the news that 15,000 people (who hate us) lost their media and entertainment jobs in 2024.

This comes after 21,417 people (who hate us) lost their media and entertainment jobs in 2023.

“The numbers, courtesy of Chicago-based firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., which tracks the employment market, are sobering,” reports the far-left Wrap. “While the 14,909 jobs that were lost by mid-December this year offered an improvement on the 21,417 jobs that were cut in 2023, it would be unwise to consider this year a ‘comeback’ by any stretch.”

Get a load of this…

“Combined, the number of jobs lost between 2023-24 more than quadrupled the amount lost between 2021-22.

The numbers are staggering…

  • Vice Media shut down Vice.com, which killed several hundred jobs
  • CNNLOL laid off 100 and more are coming (tee hee)
  • ABC News let 75 go
  • Scripps axed 200
  • Amazon Studios whacked a hundred
  • The Disney Grooming Syndicate laid off hundreds
  • Warner Bros. cut 1,0000

…and on and on it goes.

The Wrap lays out all the reasons for this jobs massacre — disruption from streaming and AI, the slow death of cable TV, the normal consolidation and restructuring…

Keep reading

The Wrap goes on to say: Compounding matters for mainstream outlets is the rise in alternative sources they can go to for information – whether that’s TikTok, Joe Rogan’s podcast or YouTubers who talk politics. Others are turning to popular Substacks, like ex-New York Times writer Bari Weiss’ The Free Press, which has 136,000 subscribers paying $8 per month; the outlet is reportedly valued at $100 million. 

More at The Wrap

Add of course “Bunkerville.”

Here we have some of these savants go on a “walkout” over layoffs. Even better, letting their bosses know they don’t care for the idea they are so rich, missing the point that only the very rich can afford to keep these losing operations in business. They are working in a business that is losing millions of dollars and apparently it doesn’t register with them.

US media job cuts: Journalists stage walkouts against billionaire-owned outlets 

Good news from the swamp.

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Soros Set to Take Control of Second Largest Chain of Radio Stations: ‘This is Scary’

February 15, 2024 — bunkerville

Soros loves to create chaos, and taking over the media is the perfect conduit to continue the strife here in the U.S. There was a time when when the F.C.C. would not allow the same company to own more that one media outlet in a market but those days are over. Earlier he went after 18 Spanish speaking radio stations. How many carry conservative talk programs.

Here we go with the story from the NY Post:

George Soros is poised to take a massive stake in the nation’s second-largest radio company, which owns more than 220 stations nationwide, according to court filings and sources close to the situation.

The left-leaning billionaire’s Soros Fund Management has bought up $400 million of debt in Audacy — the No. 2 US radio broadcaster behind iHeartMedia with stations including New York’s WFAN and 1010 WINS, as well as Los Angeles-based KROQ, according to bankruptcy filings.

Last summer, a fund linked to Soros joined a consortium of former lenders who paid $350 million for bankrupt Vice Media — an outlet that at its peak was once valued at $6 billion.

A judge in Manhattan federal bankruptcy court ruled that Soros Fund Management and Fortress Investment Group represented the best option to take the Brooklyn-based company out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Sources think it could effect the election coming up. “This is scary,” 

Read more

This isn’t his first foray:

Soros bought 18 (Jun 9 2022) A major media deal supported by Democratic fundraisers to recover lost ground among Hispanics by purchasing Spanish-language radio stations around the United States is stirring up opposition in Miami, where Cuban exiles describe it as an attempt to stifle conservative and anti-Communist voices.

The Latino Media Network, a startup founded by two political strategists who worked for President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, reached a $60 million deal to acquire 18 AM and FM stations in ten U.S. cities from Televisa/Univision.

Latina radio host slams Soros-funded liberal media takeover: ‘I’m not going to be silenced’

A previous post told the story:

FCC Pro-Censorship Radical Gigi Sohn Commissioner Hearing Held

December 2, 2021

One of the most important positions is up for approval. The FCC is set to pick up two new commissioners. A Marxist and Soros supported and could be deadly for what is left of media and free speech. The issue of Net Neutrality is on the line.

In addition to Alvaro Bedoya, the George Soros linked, pro-illegal immigration professor that Biden has selected as his nominee for FTC commissioner, the Biden administration also wants the pro-censorship radical Gigi Sohn to serve on the Federal Communications Committee (FCC).

With jurisdiction over internet and telecoms policy, the FCC is an increasingly important arm of the federal government. During the Trump administration, it was at the center of the President’s efforts to fight back against Big Tech censorship.

Gigi Sohn was the co-founder and CEO of the leftist advocacy group Public Knowledge, which recently called on cable and satellite providers to drop the conservative One America News Network. She doesn’t care much for Fox either. Where do they find all of these Marxists who wish to remove Free Speech?

We are picking up where Obama left off and it isn’t taking any eight years to get there.

Here in the waning days of Obama the coup de grace 

FCC Approves Foreign Takeover of U.S. Broadcasters

October 22, 2016 — bunkerville 

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on September 29th did something worse than give up control of the Internet. They voted unanimously to put America’s entire broadcast industry on the fast track to a foreign takeover by Chinese, Russian or Muslim Brotherhood front corporations.

This new FCC rule gives foreign interests the long sought-after tools they need to shape U.S. public opinion and to censor the opposition.

Roll on over to Bunkerville gold posted in 2014:

FCC: The long sordid attempt to take over the news media since day one for the synopsis of the whole business.

Best of the swamp today.

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Emmy’s first: ‘Non Binary’ Outfit worn by Carl Clemons-Hopkins

September 22, 2021 — bunkerville

Carl Clemons-Hopkins became the first non-binary person to be nominated for best supporting actor at the 73rd Emmy Awards on Sunday. Here is what we have to look forward to that will be coming soon to our flatscreen. While AOC got all the attention for her “tax the rich” outfit compliments of Chick fil-A, a grander vision was with this fine fellow.

To celebrate, the “Hacks” actor walked the red carpet in a custom Christian Siriano outfit inspired by the non-binary flag, according to the designer. The actor’s white button-down shirt, black trousers, purple belt, and purple and yellow train featured the colors of the flag.

The outfit was created as “an homage to the non-binary flag and celebrating our identities and beauty beyond the heteronormative standard,” Clemons-Hopkins’ stylist, Jyotisha Bridges, wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday.

The star reflected on how they came to identify as non-binary in an essay penned for The Hollywood Reporter in July, writing that they began to identify as queer in college before exploring gender norms during lockdown.

“In the past five or six years, I’ve been doing a lot of studies on the origins of masculinity, where all these rules and norms came from. At the same time, there’s been so much violence and misunderstanding with trans folk and other queer people,” Clemons-Hopkins wrote.

Makes Mustang’s post yesterday seem tame regarding our culture.

Ebonics and woke culture – the lowest possible common denominator and an earlier post English Touring Opera sacks half its members citing ‘increased diversity’

Just noting that the swamp is devastating our culture and desensitizing us.

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Six Companies Control about 75% of Media Sources

January 23, 2020 — bunkerville

 

Eureka!  And the answer is …

by Mustang

We’ve come to use the word media as a means of communications (radio, television, newspapers, magazines, the internet) that influence people.  One question that niggles all of us from time to time is how much influence “media” has on the American people, our culture, and/or our national psyche. 

I did a cursory investigation, and what I learned was that less than ten companies control all media sources in the United States.  These include, in general ranking, the Walt Disney Company, NBC-Universal/Comcast, Time-Warner, Viacom-CBS, Sony America Corporation, and Seagram’s (yes, the whiskey company). 

Their involvement in films, music, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, Internet and social communications platforms roughly equal 75% of the total of American media offerings.

Jaw dropping.

Six companies in control of everything that impacts American society.  It is interesting to see who controls these companies.  They are mostly self-loathing, American-hating Jews.  I could go on to discuss the filth in films, decadent lyrics in music, anti-American television broadcasting and newspapers, television productions that must include a percentage of homosexuals, transgenders, and at least several psychopathic and well-tattooed and pierced but “funny” characters. 

I might even mention the incident where Disney was caught transmitting subliminal messages to our children —which over several years of debate, has convinced parents that there’s nothing to worry about because, after all, colonialism was really a very bad thing.  Besides, what pre-teen doesn’t think about sex?

But then it occurred to me that media companies may not be the problem.  They only deliver what “the people” demand —what they are willing to pay for.  It’s been going on for a while, now.  I remember my mother plopping me down in front of the black and white television when she wanted to do things without having me under foot. 

Today, parents provide their young children with video games that allow the player to rape and murder animated characters.  Cell phones are now minicomputers, so the kids can entertain themselves for hours on end, releasing parents to do their own cell phone thing. 

We can even have verbal fights on Twitter, and never worry about someone punching us in the nose for being rude or obnoxious.  And we wonder what happened to our society.  We moan about what’s happened to the America of our youth.

What happened to our country was atrocious parenting.  This, too, is nothing new; instead of having an abusive father who we feared might beat the crap out of us for misbehaving, we have abusive fathers who simply ignore us.  And Mom?  We won’t be receiving any “motherly advice” from modern Mom.  She’s on the cell phone, too.

All of this leads me to the conclusion, in agreement with my Internet friend Bunkerville, that it’s too late to save America.  It’s already gone —not coming back.  But as much as we want to blame “media” for our abysmal state of affairs, it really does boil down to parenting —or lack of it.

How am I wrong?    

 

Mustang also blogs at Fix Bayonets and Thoughts From Afar

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Communist China buying up our air waves.

June 20, 2011 — bunkerville

Obama and his Propaganda machine are in full force. They are determined that our air waves -now TV stations, become the mechanism for their rhetoric. Apparently, our MSM is not doing enough. Lets bring in the Communists. China has just purchased our airwaves at a recent auction. Check out the CCTV air that they have bought on page 1 and 2 in the PDF. Look for CCTV.  Chilling to think that there is no protest. Where are those who care anything about America? The FCC ? Doing there best to do us in. How about our earlier post:

China buys U.S. Radio Station, whats next? It is the first U.S. station to broadcast CRI programing 24 hours a day, although the network has purchased blocks of time on U.S. stations at least since 1993. More here

Guess we know now. Now on to TV.

http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/69/charts/69press_5.pdf

 

CCTV Overview

China Central Television (CCTV) is the national TV station of the People´s Republic of China and it is one of China´s most important news broadcast companies. Today, CCTV has become one of China´s most influential media outlets.

H/T:Commie Blastter

Note our earlier post: Obama urges cable companies to carry Al Jazeera Take a look at who all is behind this push. Oh, by the way meanwhile, Obama shuts off Voice of America to China. Go figure. That is right. They have our stash.  Here is our earlier story Obama shuts down voice of America to China

According to Clinton, the USA’s major competitors are Al Jazeera, CCTV (China) and Russia Today. Al Jazeera is the ultimate leader, Clinton said.Russia thinks Clinton is right. America needs Al Jazerra 

Pravda RU Eng:

“Like it or hate it, it is really effective,” Clinton said. “In fact, viewership of Al-Jazeera is going up in the United States because it is real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news that is not providing information to us, let alone foreigners.” Has she really watched it? I have…so much better than Fox News…

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