The Pravda Media Continues to Collapse

By Rich Kozlovich 

In the last few days the real owner of 60 Minutes, Shari Redstone, has decided the show is in serious need of adjustment.  Finally an adult has decided it's time for 60 minutes to start dealing in facts, not opinions.   The result?  The Executive Producer Resigns whining.  A producer who John Nolte called a documented serial liar, and if he can't run the show his way, he'll take the highway:

"Over the past months, it has also become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it," ......"To make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience. So...... (here comes the martyr complex).... I am stepping aside so the show can move forward." because "The show is too important to the country, it has to continue, just not with me as the Executive Producer," 

Okay, let’s get over this martyr claptrap putting the blame on the Trump administration and that tired old leftist meme, it's the common people against the big corporate tyrants trying to prevent the truth from coming out.  Yet none of the stories were blocked, and they admit they're not being censored, but the owners think they're in serious need of supervision, and that's just intolerable.   In point of fact they've been in need of oversight for a long time:

 

"The 60 Minutes brand has gone from being the pinnacle of broadcast journalism to a show that is hated by half of the country and dismissed by most of the other half. Ratings are down. Reputations are demolished..........They are unambiguously biased against conservatives while showering adoration (and favorable edits) on leftists. This may have worked in days past when subtle bias was sufficient, but in today’s world it doesn’t go unnoticed..

 

While those who still have jobs in the Pravda media think they're so brave and so stunning, in reality they're just grifters is a "self-preservation mode trying to abandon a sinking ship ahead of the fire and brimstone that is going to rain down the show and everyone associated with it in the months to come".   What's coming?   A massive .... massive... lawsuit by Donald Trump to the tune of $20 billion over an interview with Kamala Harris he claims was deceptively edited, which even after all the evidence points to that's exactly what happened, the producer is still denying it happened. 

 

"CNN reports that execs at Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, have discussed a settlement in hopes of winning FCC approval for a proposed merger with Skydance Media, but the court battle is ongoing for now."  

 

A settlement the executive producer fought against.  But the left will always be the left twisting history and reality, but it just ain't playing well.  There's a new sheriff in town, and things are changing, and he's gonna make-em pay! 

• Update 4/28/25 1:00 PM:  Civil War at CBS - We wrote here about the resignation of Bill Owens, Executive Producer of CBS’s 60 Minutes–only the third such in the decades-long history of that program. Last night, at the end of the 60 Minutes broadcast, Scott Pelley went rogue, criticizing CBS’s parent company, Paramount, and blaming it for Owens’ departure: “‘60 Minutes’ host Scott Pelley calls out Paramount in shocking on-air attack on CBS’ parent company.” ........60 Minutes’ coverage has never been accurate and fair. The program has always been a platform for the left that has been willing to lie and falsify documents in service of the Democratic Party.......Here, “independence” can be translated as a free hand to distort the news in order to serve the Democratic Party. .........
• Update 4/28/25 6:35:PM: President Trump Torches “Corrupt, Compromised” Regime Media as “Enemy of the People”, Says Opinion Polls Are Rigged - In a fiery broadside against the seemingly hopelessly entrenched regime media establishment, President Donald Trump slammed the corporate press, accusing it of deliberately distorting public opinion polls to sabotage his administration and mislead voters. On the eve of his 100th day of his second term, an important milestone in any president’s tenure, Trump, in his usual fashion, didn’t hold back in the slightest, blasting what he called a “compromised and corrupt” press that’s become little more than a propaganda arm for globalist interests.............

 

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Useful Idiots and Paid Lackeys, Part XIV

Does anyone doubt this is a conspiracy of useful idiots and paid lackeys?

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

In a letter by Thomas Jefferson to his friend Walter Jones he made clear his feeling about the abuses of the "free press" in 1814 saying:

“I deplore … the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity and the mendacious spirit of those who write for them… These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief… This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.” 

Nothing has changed, nor it will ever change, regarding the lack of integrity in the media! It has been so from their founding, and will continue to be so until the end of time.  But right now, today, because of modern communications, they have more easily, and more thoroughly, corrupted the nation's perception of reality with the stench of their morality, and stunning level of hypocritical ignorance.  

Worse yet, they work diligently to prevent anyone from exposing their perfidy!  As an example, YouTube suspended  One America News Network channel for what they're calling misinformation violations for COVID-19 policy.  That's a convenient way of saying anything that disagrees with the leftist agenda, AKA, free speech, is misinformation and must be censored.    Yet they have little trouble promoting outright lies.  Those don't count because those lies promote false leftist narratives.

Calling them sewer trout would be an insult to trout and to sewers, since both serve a useful purpose.  

Useful Idiots

The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,  NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN, all are losing readership or viewership in droves and being forced to scale back as a result.  Alot of big names and a lot of staff are being sent out into the cold, hard, real world, and it's been interesting to see the consequences for them.   When was the last time you heard anything from Chris Wallace after he decided to forego his seven million dollar a year salary in order to podcast.   

And why did Chris Wallace leave?  Because at 77, he was "eager to see what a transformed media environment has to offer, and neither he or his family want him to retire, and he wants more control over what he produces", which of course will undoubtedly be "unbiased".  

Yeah right!  While I'm sure he's more than financially secure, it still comes down to this.  If he had been able to carry his weight at CNN, he'd still be there, and since he couldn't, what makes him think he can carry the freight on his own?

In order to continue to parrot leftist themes there are shows like The View, which is:

".... one of the most insufferable programs on daytime television, the mecca from where the most miserable, wine-drinking liberal women come to cope and seethe about a second Trump presidency. It’s also prime territory for epic meltdowns, abject stupidity, racism, and all-around strangeness".

In one episode of The View Sunny Hostin claimed voter ID prevents blacks from voting, which implies black people are too dumb to figure out how to get an ID to vote.  Amazing!  Blacks don't seem to have a problem getting driver's licenses and bank accounts requiring ID's, so why would voter ID rules prevent them from voting?  But, she's on The View, which pretty much tell you all you need to know on the dumb chart.

Their Philosophy

The criminal's first rule is, "never give up on the con", and the media lives that.  The reason why Kamala lost the election was because TikTok stole Kamala’s presidency, and in spite of all the facts that have poured out about Joe Biden's mental condition,  a former CNN editor still tried to claim "the media did not act in bad faith".   Not in bad faith?  The only faith they have is bad, just like America's Smeagol, James Carville, who outrageously claimed Trump's White House argument with Zelenskyy was because Trump has syphilis.  How disgusting can they get?  There's no boundaries on the left. 

Is it any wonder the Pravda media is dying, and the reason why is simple, no one trusts them.  They're not devoted to truth, justice, and the American way, they're devoted to destroying Trump, and the traditional values that made America great, and now millions are abandoning them for alternative news sources, and those sources are now in charge of the news. 

But in spite of their woes, will the Pravda media reflect on their misdeeds? No! 

• Legacy of Lies: Scott Jennings Tells Abby Phillip Why Media Trust Is Cratering but She Refuses to Listen

A legacy of lies which Tim Pool drives home at a White House Press Corp meeting saying:

“Many of the news organizations represented in this room have marched in lock step on false narratives, such as the ‘very fine people’ hoax, the Covington smear,” Pool said, prefacing his first official question to Awesome White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “And now, the ‘Maryland man’ hoax, where an MS-13 gang member, adjudicated by two different judges, I believe, is simply being referred to as a ‘Maryland man’ over and over again.”  “In an effort from the White House to expand access to new companies, you’ve created this New Media Seat. … I’m wondering if you can comment on that unprofessional behavior, as well as elaborate on if there’s any plans to expand access to new [media] companies.”

The author then says:

Other than the Doocy kid, why are all these lying people (He didn't say people here) allowed to sit up front when they should be standing in the back cupping their ears like nursing home patients late for Bingo?   Contempt. Contempt. Contempt. The legacy media only deserve contempt......which is crucial in our noble crusade to someday enjoy the lamentations of their women.

Why do they persist in their insanity?  This Current List of Media’s Anti-Social Positions Explains So Much About What Is Wrong With Them:

The national media outlets and the Democrats are currently mired in a conjoined, downward spiral. The public approval of both entities has been eroding, and the main cause is in the way that they are interlocked. Neither shows interest in addressing - let alone repairing  - the problem. Instead, the Dems and the press appear convinced their entrenched activism and anti-Trump positioning will see them through...

As for Public Broadcasting:

1. Law Professor Jonathan Turley Says it’s Time to Shut Down the Taxpayer Funded ‘Gravy Train’ for NPR
2. End the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
3. FCC’s Brendan Carr Advances Investigation into NPR, PBS Running ‘Prohibited’ Ads

Senator Kennedy of Louisiana once commented about our policy of giving money to nations who hate us asking, "Why are we giving money to countries that hate America? They should be able to hate us for free."   I think that's a philosophy that should apply to NPR and Corporation for Public Broadcasting also.

But, like criminals, they just can't give up the con promoting claims of doom and gloom, having epileptic fits over anything Trump says turning everything into a crisis.  Defending rouge judges who support illegal immigration and decisions that promote voter fraud, and the list goes on and on, but this time nobody is listening. 

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Print Media, Part XIII

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

 

As we watch the Pravda electronic media gasping it's last breaths and with a total lack of self reflection challenging alternative media types by asking if they think they're real journalists. Anyone who proclaims they're from the Pravda media, either electronic or print, is in effect publicly stating:

 

"I'm a corrupt lying brain damaged puppet, which is why for four years I not only covered up Joe Biden's dementia, I vehemently denied it existed.  Also, I arrogantly, and smugly ridiculed any who dared to question it, and I did it with a smirk!"

 

But the left will always be the left, and they're now trying to rewrite and twist the history of the Biden presidency, but it just ain't playing well.  There's a new sheriff in town, and things are changing, and he's gonna make-em pay!

 

Trump is suing CBS for $20 billion over an interview with Kamala Harris that he claims was deceptively edited. CNN reports that execs at Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, have discussed a settlement in hopes of winning FCC approval for a proposed merger with Skydance Media, but the court battle is ongoing for now. (More 60 Minutes stories.)

 

Finally an adult has decided it's time for 60 minutes to start dealing in facts, not opinions.   The result?  The Executive Producer Resigns whining.  A producer who John Nolte called a documented serial liar.  And Nolte goes on the list the number of names that are crashing or out the door, and it's impressive saying:

 

And so, we can now add Bill Owens to our ever-growing list of Regime Media elites who have committed career suicide or just plain given up due to Trump Derangement Syndrome — Yes, 20 self-deportations:

1. Ruth Marcus – Washington Post columnist resigns.
2. 538 – Disney/ABC’s wildly biased polling site shutters.
3. Paul Krugman – Always wrong New York Times columnist forced out.
4. Jim Acosta – CNN anchor forced out.
5. Norah O’Donnell – Failed CBS anchor out.
6. Chuck Todd – NBC’s former Meet the Press host DEI’d out.
7. Andrea Mitchell – NBC harridan ages out of job.
8. Chris Wallace – Son of Someone out at CNN.
9. Joy Reid – Racist MSNBC anchor too racist for MSNBC. Fired.
10. Neil Cavuto – Fox News anchor scurries away.
11. Alex Wagner – Demoted at MSNBC.
12. Ayman Mohyeldin – Lost MSNBC show.
13. Olivia Nuzzi – Out at New York Mag for allegedly stalking RFK Jr.
14. Katie Phang – Lost MSNBC show.
15. Jonathan Capehart – Lost MSNBC show. Steps down from Washington Post editorial board.
16. Lester Holt – Out as NBC Nightly News anchor.
17. One-third of New York Times Editorial Board – Say, bye.
18. Eugene Robinson – Washington Post columnist quits in snit.
19. Ryan Lizza – Scurries to Substack over credible misconduct allegations.
20. Bill Owens —60 Minutes chief resigns in crybaby disgrace.

The New York Times, with "All the News That's Fit to Print" motto, commonly called 'The Gray Lady", is not a lady, but a hag, and will always be the journalistic sewer it has been for the entire 20th century, and it will never change, and is still a hag.  

1.  Report: NYT Journalist Has Regrets over Kavanaugh Coverage
2. Charles Blow, Journalism’s Clunkiest DIE Hire, Out at the New York Times
3.  NYT piece is oozing with fear.
4.  New York Magazine crops black people out of Trump inauguration party photo, then reports "almost everyone is white"

On the other hand the L.A. Times heard the alarm clock and now they're really "woke". Woke up that is.  Legacy media giant reportedly shifting resources from left-wing paper to promote…a conservative press.  The publisher refused to allow his newspaper.... remember it's his newspaper.... to endorse Kamala Harris.  Why? Because it was clear she was in no way qualified to be President of the United State and he'd had enough, and demanded they print news, not their opinions.  And many quit.  

But the Washington Post is the best story regarding that kind of transformation.  

• So, is Jeff Bezos really seeing the light? - Suddenly, the post-Trump Post will turn its opinions page toward ‘personal liberties’ and ‘free markets.’  Speaking of “free markets,” some outlets (WaPo, MSNBC, L.A. Times, etc.) are shelving their most radical leftists in favor of more consumer-friendly material.  While I don’t believe for a minute that Jeff Bezos has had a come-to-Jesus, road-to-Damascus epiphany, I do believe that he’s recognized that his paper’s hard-left whackadoodle opinions ran afoul of normal, everyday Americans, and therefore posed a long-term drag on his paper’s fortunes.

Bezos is reshaping the paper's opinion section, and the editor quit, and staff reject liberty and free markets. Someone named Jen Rubin left WaPo in order to make her living continuing to belittling Trump, and is being joined by other WaPo staff.  People  I never heard of, just like Ruth Marcus.   I'm betting the vast majority of America never heard of any of them.   Well, good luck with that, if WaPo couldn't make money spewing out their views, why would they think they can make money away from WaPo spewing out their views?   Perhaps they need to start practicing saying, "Welcome to McDonalds."

So, is Jeff Bezos really seeing the light? - Suddenly, the post-Trump Post will turn its opinions page toward ‘personal liberties’ and ‘free markets.’  Speaking of “free markets,” some outlets (WaPo, MSNBC, L.A. Times, etc.) are shelving their most radical leftists in favor of more consumer-friendly material.  While I don’t believe for a minute that Jeff Bezos has had a come-to-Jesus, road-to-Damascus epiphany, I do believe that he’s recognized that his paper’s hard-left whackadoodle opinions ran afoul of normal, everyday Americans, and therefore posed a long-term drag on his paper’s fortunes.

Of course the staff was outraged, who does he think he is?  Well, “there is nothing less tolerant than a leftist scorned.” 

Here’s my take regarding his road to Damascus conversion. Believe it or not, I think this a schadenfreude moment for Bezos.  He’s a nerd who never dreamed of ever being a major center of attention in the world, and he likes it. So, he’s not going to do anything that will diminish that.  He has new hottie on his arm he’s calling his fiance, working out to try and have a new look, and now a new position at the table that affirms he's important.  

 

I have no doubt, given the self righteous arrogance leftists spewed out over all this, he was smugly looked down on by the hired help. He knew it!  He resented it!  And now he’s made it clear: They’re the nobodies. They’re just hired help, and they don’t count!  Only he counts, and that’s what he really believes in.  My view of Bezos?   You wouldn’t want to go into battle with Bezos, or for Bezos.  

 

Final thought.  No matter what's unfolding now, know the corporate media will never reform, no matter what shifts they may be taking now.  The Pravda media is arrogant, overpaid, under smart, and they lie constantly!   That's the history of the media from time immemorial. They have history, and it's ugly.   One has to wonder if the Pravda media even sane?   Perhaps we should ask if they're not only insane, but are they treasonous?  

 

 "Treason is an ugly word and an even uglier crime. In simple language treason is the act of betraying one’s country to those who would destroy it and enslave its people. This definition is so simple that leftwing sophisticated journalists sneer at it. To them treason is merely relative with one country’s traitor being another country’s hero. This is the appalling moral and intellectual state of current Western journalism. The moral rot runs so deep that one despairs of living long enough to see any improvement." Gerard Jackson 

Historically, that's the centuries long foundationally social paradigm of the media at it's core, and any improvement is merely a temporary blip on the radar.  It's never gonna change. 

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Big Tech Internet, Part XII

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

Let's start with this blatantly obvious truth,  The Press Pool is an illegitimate media cartel, and has been in effect the Pravda propaganda wing of the left and the Democrat party, unendingly playing the race card and they've even compare Zelenskyy to Jesus Christ.  But there's a new sheriff in town, and we're seeing a shift. 

Let's start with the internet since Google and Meta have manipulated our elections.  

These are not neutral parties, they're partisans, "with clear political agendas, using their unmatched market power to control electoral outcomes."

In an era where information is power, two corporate giants -- Google and Meta -- act as gatekeepers to the digital world, wielding their unprecedented market dominance not only to shape consumer habits but also to manipulate the very foundation of democracy: our elections,  ..............evidence is mounting that Big Tech is tipping the scales.........In 2019, psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein testified before Congress that manipulating Google’s search algorithm could have shifted at least 2.6 million votes toward Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election...........Meta, meanwhile, engages in a similar practice.........Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has funneled hundreds of millions into “election integrity” initiatives that critics argue disproportionately benefit progressive turnout efforts. These are not accidents; they are patterns. The agenda is not hidden; it is embedded in the system.

But Big Tech doesn’t operate in isolation. Mainstream media and educational institutions -- many of which are funded or influenced by leftist titans like George Soros -- amplify this distortion. Outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times echo narratives that align with Big Tech’s curation, while universities produce graduates steeped in progressive orthodoxy.............Each revelation uncovers another layer of a system that is rotten to its core.........The first step is to break their power. Antitrust enforcement must be revived with strength: split Google’s search engine from its ad business, compel Meta to divest Instagram and WhatsApp, and impose strict transparency on algorithms.

But now that there's a new sheriff in town, nerves are being rattled, and Zuckerberg immediately reverts to the "Kyrie Eleison" of leftism: It's not my fault, It's not my fault, It's not my fault, Amen!  

After meeting with Stephen Miller, a key aide to President-elect Trump, he blamed "Sheryl Sandberg, former chief operating officer at Meta", for much of their misbehavior, and in a panic fires Meta’s left-wing executive Nick Clegg, replacing him with Joel Kaplan, a Republican.  Remarkable.  Are we to believe he didn't know Clegg was a left wing radical, and Sandberg was all in on DEI?   

But to show just how serious Zuck's conversion is, he removed the tampons from the mens room.  Wow! How much more does everyone need to realize he's now a Mega man?  Well, after meeting with Jim Jordan he eliminated their fact check program, who conservatives  considered to be biased at best, which destroyed their credibility, and that drove the left nuts.

But all this is tacit acknowledgement Zuck's boys really were practicing censorship, which according to him Biden officials screamed and cursed at us to censor ‘things that were true.  But he's learned his lesson. No more censorship.

1. Huge Win for Free Speech’: Republicans Cheer Facebook’s Retreat from Censorship
2.  Meta Mega-Reversal Zuck Promises Less Censorship to Get in Trump’s Good Graces

Sorry Mark, we’ve heard this all before. 

Facebook has implemented one of the most scandalous censorship efforts in American history. And now, we’re supposed to believe – after years of election interference and undeserved demonization – that they want to embrace free speech?

1. No One Should Be Fooled by Zuckerberg’s Supposed About-Face on Trump
2. ‘If you think Mark Zuckerberg is MAGA, then you’d fall for a stripper saying they love you.”
3.  Epic Games CEO Blasts Big Tech for Being Fake Dems Now ‘Pretending’ to Be Republicans.

As for Google, they're still at it, and with impunity.   It seems to me they're just like the EU, while they insist they don't censor, if you dare disagree they'll censor you.

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! MSNBC, Part XI

By Rich Kozlovich Tags:

Years ago there used to be reality cop shows, and the benefit of seeing what cops had to deal with daily.... hourly....  was encouraging.  Why?  Because you knew no matter what was going on in your life, it was much better than what was happening in much of the rest of the world.  The same is true for watching the Pravda media, including MSNBC.

It's a look into a "parallel universe".  A universe where only far left insanity is considered sane, and anything that smacks of traditional values is not only insane, but vile and hateful.   All whites, conservatives, Republicans, practicing Christians and Jews, are evil and must be ridiculed constantly.  

It's all make believe, nothing going on in reality changes their views, always believing they're the true voice of America.  In spite of their ratings collapse they still arrogantly and smugly act is if the nation cares what they're saying, but those who run MSNBC  know better, and there are penalties for ignoring reality....the loss of viewership, and the resulting funding that goes along with that.

As a result of their loss of viewership, it's become too costly to maintain their overpriced staff.  Top anchors faced huge pay cuts after Comcast cut ties with MSNBC:

That's bad news for the exorbitantly compensated and increasingly unhinged personalities who call the left-wing network home (for now). MSNBC and other declining television assets—but not the reality TV powerhouse Bravo—will be spun off into a new publicly traded company by the end of next year. That means MSNBC will soon be divorced from the ostensibly more serious and less overtly partisan NBC News, which routinely shares reportage, fact-checking (if you can call it that), and contributors with its sister network. Comcast brass on Wednesday told MSNBC staffers that  the network's name and peacock logo might not survive the breakup. The outrageously inflated salaries of the network's top anchors almost definitely won't.

Joyless Reid’s Show on MSNBC CANCELLED. 

 

Does all of this signal a shift in MSNBC’s editorial policies? No. They intend to continue their radical brainwashing of the limited audience they reach. They’re just going to do it with fresher faces who haven’t obliterated their credibility completely… at least not yet. Give it time. The new hosts be recycled as well once they’ve been proven to be just as wrong as their predecessors.  ‘My Show Had Value!’ — Joy Reid Melts Down After MSNBC Axes Her.............By way of example, she cites her promotion of Black Lives Matter and the anti-white 1619 Project, among other far-left causes.......“[A]nd where I come down on that is I’m not sorry,” she concluded.

 

Of course the fact she was unhinged, and her ratings were in the toilet isn't the real reason she was fired.  Oh no,....here it comes...and I know you're all going to be shocked.... it's because MSNBC is racist.  And we know that because Rachel Maddow "hints" they're racists, so if Rachel Maddow says it, then it must be true!  Right? There's talk MSNBC should be investigated for racism, and I agree.  It's clear they hate white people and something needs to be done about it. 

Here's a reality check on Rachel Maddow,  who loves everything about Reid saying she's learned so much from her and has so much more to learn, but isn't so outraged over her firing she's quitting her $25 million dollar a year job...which she hardly show up to do.... Reid was making a piddling three million a year... spewing out hate against whites and screaming nonsense about white supremacy. 

 

Running fast-and-loose with the truth is a much-heralded trait of Maddow, and her now departed former network colleague, Joy Reid. Reid, who was never at a loss for vile condemnations, was subject to an avalanche of critical comments on social media by viewers from both sides of the political aisle........

 

She also failed to mention MSNBC fired other propagandists, all shows no one was watching.   Marcus Ebenhack asks if Rachel Maddow just plain stupid?  Calling her the "left’s high priestess of political drama", the queen of Russiagate, implied J6 was an armed revolt and political violence, which it wasn't, and yet ignored the devastation caused by violent, destructive riots by Antifa and BLM that went on for a couple of years.  He ends saying:

 

 I’ll leave it at this: unless she is knowingly lying to her audience, then unequivocally, yes, she is just plain stupid. 

MSNBC, with their unending comparisons to Adolf Hitler, called Trump’s J6 pardons an effort to create an army of Brownshirts, and the "mostly peaceful" fire bombing attacks on Tesla dealerships protests. 

Both CNN, MSNBC  falsely called Garcia ‘Maryland Man’ 506 time in or order to conceal the fact he's here illegally.  He is not a citizen of the US and he's not a Maryland citizen.  Then they bring on that brilliant orator, Jasmine Crockett,  to defend Garcia, smear Trump, and then in turn praise her.  She cries.

 

Biden stranded those astronauts, but MSNBC spreads a massive lie about it.  The astronauts think Trump saved them. Lies cost, as MSNBC pays $30 million to settle defamation lawsuit, and that's a trend we're seeing across the board with the Pravda media.

• MSNBC Legal Analyst Blows Apart Narrative That Trump Is 'Losing' Legal Battles 
• ‘Morning Joe’ Panelists Give New DNC Chair Chances to Take a Popular Stance on “Cultural Issues” . . . He Blows It.
• Don Lemon Blasts MSNBC’s Scarborough and Brzezinski for Preaching ‘Civility’ Towards

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! CNN, Part X

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

 

This has been sitting in my draft file for a couple of months, so some of this goes back a ways, but, it's history, and history is everything as we're seeing the Pravda media dying on the vine.  The cartoon is from this past week and sums up just about everything anyone needs to know about CNN.  CNN excels in a number of things.  Lies of commission, lies of omission, personal attacks, smears, fear mongering, and censorship. 

CNN, The Most Trusted Name in News, claims they're the guardians of truth, and they will decide what's truth tolerating no dissenting views.  Like this time when James Fishbeck challenged views about federal spending the host threatened to cut off his mic, and free speech on Facebook isn't desirable, claiming there's no one saying there's not enough free speech on Facebook.  Really?  Another CNN lie.  

• CNN, MSNBC Use ‘Maryland Man’ Lie 506 Times, Conceal Garcia’s Illegal Status

The Most Trusted Name in News has been caught up in a lot of lies, and then have the nerve to say the really big problem is so many millions of people willing believe Trump's lies, none of which they bother to prove.  But they know Biden did not strand the astronauts Musk rescued, unfortunately for them the astronauts think differently.   The also know Joe Biden already fixed the border, and now Trump is just trying to take credit for all of it, and Trump no understanding about economics. 

And when the lies don't work, they resort to fear mongering.  If Trump purges these agencies, the Deep State bureaucrats are threatening to sell state secrets, including the CIA.  Yeah, and they'll end up in prison.  

Jake Tapper, who has been caught up in these lawsuits says,we're about to enter a period of deep fakes.   The Pravda media loves to smear people.  As in this case where a CNN Panel Tries to Smear Dan Bongino as not being qualified to be the number two man at the FBI, yet we've seen amazingly stupid people appointed to powerful positions, including the judiciary, by Joe Biden without a peep from CNN.   Bongino is a public figure and as a result of they can get away saying a lot about public figures.  But Sullivan doesn't apply to private citizens, such as Zachary Young, who they accused of corruption, and destroyed his business.

Jury Was Ready to Send CNN a Message with $100M in Punitive Damages - The jury responsible for the CNN defamation case was prepared to award Zachary Young up to $100 million in punitive damages, one juror told far-left Variety............

Fed-up Judge Savaged CNN Attorney in Network's Disastrous Defamation Case: 'This Isn't Kindergarten'- Along the way to CNN losing a major defamation lawsuit, the attorney representing the network received a blistering rebuke from the Florida judge overseeing the case. Zachary Young, who is a security consultant, sued the network alleging CNN “destroyed his reputation and business” by branding him an “illegal profiteer” who exploited “desperate Afghans” during a Nov. 11, 2021, report by the network’s senior national security correspondent Alex Marquardt on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Fox News reported.......

  “Your Credibility With Me Is About None”: CNN Trial Goes From Bad to Worse

 5 billion in punitive damages would make CNN start sounding unbiased - I read with great satisfaction that the Florida jury in Zachary Young’s defamation case against CNN awarded him $5 million in compensatory damages before deliberating about punitive damages .........  CNN’s lawyers almost instantly reached an undisclosed settlement with Young, avoiding any colossal punitive damages (which can’t be discharged in bankruptcy court). I was profoundly disappointed........

 

BREAKING: Jury Finds CNN “Committed Defamation Against Navy Vet Zachary Young” Jurors began deliberating after closing arguments were made on Thursday in a defamation lawsuit against CNN. The deliberations continued into Friday after the jury remained undecided late Thursday evening.  ‘The Most Trusted Name In News’ Guilty of Defamation.

Then there's the consequences for all this vile behavior.  Mass Lay-Offs amid tumbling ratings, to the tune of hundreds of employees.  Why? Their lies have caught up to them and viewership is crashing.  They kept catering to left-wing terrorism to appease a dwindling audience, and just can't seem to understand why they lost those viewers. 

CNN’s Acosta: GOP Should Have ‘Flat Out Rejected’ Trump, in an interview with Brad Todd Acosta was on a role saying the Republicans should have "flat out rejected" Trump.  From Kevin McCarthy to Mitch McConnell he asks how could the Republicans left him be the nominee.  And of course we know he was just trying to help the Republicans.  Right?  Well, unlike the chicanery performed by the Democrats, he was chosen by the base.  And it gets better.  

Acosta has always been an obnoxious jerk, and CNN liked it, at least until their ratings started to crash, and then CNN banished TDS-Afflicted Jim Acosta to time-slot ‘Siberia.  So little Jimmy threatened to quit, and it appeared no one cared.  It seems clear, even to little Jimmy, his days at CNN were numbered and he left.  He's gone, Kevin McCarthy's gone, and Mitch McConnell now sits in back of the boat, and is meaningless to the Republican party.  But the man he insisted should have been rejected, Donald Trump, is still there and he "is" the Republican party now.  

But Jimmy, Mitch, and Kevin aren't alone.  And a lot of people will be following them out the door, as CNN is desperate and big names are involved including Wolf Blitzer.  Time is not on CNN's side, and I expect to see it sold are fire sale prices. 

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Part VIII

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: My Media Commentaries

This this series will continue focusing on the individual media entities based on the articles I've been saving for some time.  The amount of information I've stored on CNN and MSNBC is so large they will be featured separately.  Other's will be featured together,  such as the Associated Press, CBS, and NBC.  

Let's start with the AP 

 

These media elites are outraged that Trump has officially banned the AP from Air Force One and the Oval Office, and they're calling for boycotts of Trump in support of AP’s speech codes, and Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.  I think that's loony, but, nothing as loony as all the stuff Biden did.  They just don't get it, they're toast, and Trump doesn't care what they think or say.  And much of what they say is contemptible, such as their headline over the murder of Israeli hostages.  Hamas murdered Shiri Bibas and her two children, paraded their coffins through the streets to cheering crowds and AP's take.  "They died in captivity".  Absolutely vile and contemptible. 

They complain they're being silenced, but as Jack Hellner points out they, along with other media nitwits, should look in the mirror when they complain about being silenced.  They're not being silenced as they've done to so many others in the past.  They can say and print whatever they please, they just don't have a "right" to have access to the White House, and now, a  federal judge agrees with the President.

While claiming to be the source of truth, justice, and free speech, implying they're being kicked to the curb will prevent freedom of the press, and impose censorship, in reality, AP has been just as vile as all the rest of the Pravda media.  They specialize in twisting words and definitions in more corrupt ways than seems possible, and they have what they call a "stylebook" that helps them to do it.  

The AP is even more hypocritical for accusing the Trump administration of controlling language when its stylebook notoriously adopted leftist neologisms and politically correct euphemisms that everyone in certain professions was forced to use. The AP stylebook banned the use of illegal alien because “many immigrants and migrants have some sort of documents, but not the necessary ones.” That’s coming from the same organization which complains about calling a body the Gulf of America. The AP has no leg to stand on, no defense and no shame.

CBS

If you think the 30 million settlement with NBC (we'll come back to that) is huge, try this.  CBS is being sued for $10 Billion Lawsuit by Trump For Deceptively Editing ’60 Minutes’ Interview with Kamala Harris, and they're wanting to settle.    

• Nolte: CBS Considers Settling Trump’s Election Interference Lawsuit Against ’60 Minutes’

And this doesn't appear to be an anomaly.  This kind of corruption seems to be standard operating procedure at CBS.

• Disgraced ’60 Minutes’ Misleads Viewers on USAID Staff Reductions - Sunday’s episode of the disgraced 60 Minutes from far-left CBS News worked overtime to mislead its gullible viewers about the recent layoffs at USAID, a left-wing slush fund paid for with about $40 billion taxpayer dollars each year.  Despite the U.S. Senate’s previous good-faith attempts to discover where all that money went, the USAID bureaucrats stalled and stalled. No one could find out how those billions were being spent, which was the whole point. What we had was an unaccountable federal agency spending billions with no oversight or accountability.

Margaret Brennan scolded Marco Rubio on free speech suggesting that's what caused the Holocaust.  Apparently she didn't get the memo, there was no free speech in Nazi Germany. As Mark Tapson stated her thinking amounts to “One of the most deranged analogies ever.”  And she kept doubling down with her nonsense in spite of a major kickback from the public who attacked her factually and historically.  The fact is, ya just can't fix stupid.

• Margaret Brennan’s Face-Plant on Free Speech: Welcome to Face the Nonsense - 

Here’s the reality. In times past she would have gotten away with her ignorance because so many interviewees were afraid to attack their stupidity. But those days are over, and that started with Newt Gengrich when he was running for President in 2012 and during the debates he went after the “moderators” and made them look ridiculous…. and all of a sudden…. bells went on in the heads of conservative politicians, and that mentality has only grown as the talking heads became even less capable.  Make no mistake, most of these talking heads are not that smart, and they certainly not that knowledgeable, their really big concern is if they have their make up on, all the other stuff is handed to them my off screen lackeys, who are just as dumb. Except for The View…. even their lackeys aren’t that stupid.  

 

The Global Elites are at war to prevent free speech with the support of all the Pravda media networks, and the European powers, the only problem they have is the United States Constitution.  That stands in the way of making that international law. 

 

CBS is a disaster.  They're ratings are dropping, and somehow they think by changing one far left talking head with other far left talking heads they can turn that around.  As one producer notes, “They took the ‘news’ out of the ‘Evening News!’ It’s not surprising the audience is leaving in droves.”

NBC

Let's not paddle around the pond, NBC is in trouble, as both CNN and NBC are dumping staff, a lot of staff, simply because no one is watching their corruption of thought, fact, logic, and reality, and their revenue is plummeting in alignment with their ratings, and when cable crashes in favor of streaming, and all that lovely, lovely cable money comes to a halt, they're doomed. 

It gets worse, not only are they losing revenue, they're going have to pay for their lies.....big time payments.   NBC was sued by a Georgia doctor who as defamed by Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, and Chris Hayes.

NBC's top anchors made ‘verifiably false’ statements about a doctor they accused of performing ‘mass hysterectomies’ on female inmates at ICE facility, a federal judge ruled last year.....A federal judge ruled last year that the MSNBC hosts made 39 "verifiably false" statements about Amin. The judge found that a jury could reasonably conclude the network acted with "actual malice." Internal NBC documents revealed lingering doubts among reporters about the whistleblower’s claims, but aired the story anyway. Emails and texts uncovered during discovery showed that journalists, including Maddow and Hayes, had early reservations about the allegations.

And NBC settled for $30 million.  Normally settlements are cheaper than trials, win or lose, but this isn't one of those times.  Why would NBC settle for such a huge amount of money?  Mike McDaniel explains: 

Settlements are common in civil suits. In many cases it makes sense to settle to avoid ridiculously high legal costs and general embarrassment, but that holds true only if the settlement amount is relatively small. That’s not going to be true in this case, and NBC surely didn’t want their malicious internal communications revealed in public, not after this..........Even these five reporters and anchors weren’t alone. Numerous producers and editors were also involved. The false reports were based on the testimony of Dawn Wooten, a nurse, who eventually admitted she made it all up. That, of course, didn’t stop MSNBC......

If this continued and NBC had to open their files during discovery it's my view they would be facing even more devastating lawsuits.  

Updates:  And the hits just keep right on coming:

•  AP Pulls Story About Tulsi Gabbard After Getting It Completely WRONG