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From: WALTER784
May-12
Nolte: Tucker Carlson Announces New Show on Twitter ‘Soon’
JOHN NOLTE
9 May 2023
Former Fox News primetime anchor Tucker Carlson announced on Tuesday that he will “soon” broadcast a show on Twitter, which he called one of the few “English speaking” outlets that still allows free speech.
“Starting soon, we will be doing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for six-and-a-half years to Twitter,” Tucker promised without elaborating on what “soon” means. “We’ll bring some other things too, which we’ll tell you about. But for now, we’re just grateful to be here.”
He closed with, “Free speech is the main right that you have. Without it, you have no others.”
In fewer than 20 minutes, the video had over 700,000 views, which is more viewers than anyone at CNN earns.
Earlier this month, Fox News removed Carlson from the air. The results for Fox have so far been catastrophic. The cuck outlet was already on probation with its viewers for cuck moves like calling Arizona early on Election Night 2020—an obvious attempt to meddle on behalf of Joe Biden. Now that Fox has fired its top star, the one guy Trump voters saw as their champion, ratings have cratered over there.
Fox might rebound. They always have before.
As of now, though, Fox firing Tucker looks about as wise as killing John Wick’s dog.
Yes, I realize he’s not officially fired. He’s still on contract. But let’s not be pedantic.
In the aftermath of Tucker’s removal from the air, selective leaks out of Fox News obviously meant to damage Carlson only proved he was the same guy off the air as on, and now Carlson’s doing exactly what I predicted within hours of the firing: taking his following with him.
You see, that’s where Fox News screwed up. In the past, Fox has fired or lost people that were not bigger than Fox News. For example, in the case of Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly, Fox made them who they were. This is not true with Carlson, and now he’s making a move to Twitter, where he will work for only one man: Elon Musk.
Imagine how good this will be for Twitter.
According to the far-left site Axios, Carlson is going to war with Fox News. He’s accusing the cuck outlet of violating his contract:
“Carlson’s contract runs until January 2025,” reports Axios. That’s after the presidential election. Fox, of course, would like to continue paying him to keep him off the air. Moving to Twitter would almost certainly be seen by Fox as Carlson violating his contract.
Carlson’s lawyers have written a letter to Fox accusing them of violating his contract. “The letter — from Carlson lawyer Bryan Freedman to Fox officials Viet Dinh and Irena Briganti — said Fox employees, including ‘Rupert Murdoch himself,’ broke promises to Carlson “intentionally and with reckless disregard for the truth.”
The lawyer is declaring some of these broken promises “fraud.”
Notably, the letter alleges Fox broke an agreement with Carlson not to leak his private communications to the media and not to use Carlson’s private messages “to take any adverse employment action against him.”
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Carlson is also claiming that Briganti, Fox’s longtime communications and PR chief, attempted to “undermine, embarrass, and interfere” with Carlson’s future business prospects, which he maintains would constitute another breach of his employment contract.
“Make no mistake; we intend to subpoena Ms. Briganti’s cell phone records and related documents, which evidence communications with her and all media, including, but not limited to The New York Times,” the letter from Carlson’s lawyer said.
Carlson’s lawyers told Fox News that with litigation likely, it needs “to preserve all existing documents and data.”
My reading of this is that Carlson wants out of his contract, believes Fox News violated his contract with these low-rent leaks, and Fox can either face another massive, potentially embarrassing lawsuit or
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From: WALTER784
May-12
Nolte: MTV News Is Latest Left-Wing ‘News’ Outlet to Shut Down
JOHN NOLTE
10 May 2023
The bloodbath of left-wing media outlets continues with the news that Paramount will shut down MTV News. This is part of Paramount’s 25 percent staff reduction “across the Showtime, MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks groups in the U.S.”
In a statement to staffers, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks president Chris McCarthy wrote that everyone is happy with the success of paramount+ streaming service, but…
[T]his success in streaming, we continue to feel pressure from broader economic headwinds like many of our peers. To address this, our senior leaders in coordination with HR have been working together over the past few months to determine the optimal organization for the current and future needs of our business.
As a result, we have made the very hard but necessary decision to reduce our domestic team by approximately 25%. This is a tough yet important strategic realignment of our group. Through the elimination of some units and by streamlining others, we will be able to reduce costs and create a more effective approach to our business as we move forward. Today we will notify employees whose positions are being impacted with leaders communicating the news directly to those teams/or individuals. These meetings will be followed by individual 1:1s with our HR partners.
Keep voting for Democrats, morons!
So we can add MTV News to the growing list of left-wing news outlets that have been closed down or faced massive layoffs. Vice is gone. BuzzFeed News is gone. CNN+ is gone. Who knows what will happen with FiveThirtyEight.
Honestly, though, who knew MTV News was still in business?
For those of a certain age, MTV News will always be associated with Kurt Loder’s calm, intelligent presence—an insider who seemed immune to celebrity and hype. That’s a rare bird in that field, and Loder earned his place in that world, not through clickbait, but through memorable roles at Rolling Stone, Reason, and elsewhere. Loder was and remains a real journalist. He brought integrity, knowledge, experience, and equal parts, love of music and old-school journalism, to MTV News.
Well, look at MTV News now… It’s starfucking of the most generic kind.
This ongoing wipeout of the left-wing media and entertainment industry marches on, even as conservative media and entertainment expand.
Disney slashed thousands of jobs. CNN cut jobs. CBS cut jobs. The far-left Washington Post and New York Times cut jobs. The fake news/trans/drag queen/child grooming chickens are coming home to roost.
Let’s not forget that the overall MTV brand, along with the music industry, is dying. MTV used to be a kingmaker. But today, with the music culture fractured into a million pieces, there is no place for a centralized tastemaker. MTV used to be associated with fun and sex, everything that made rock n’ roll great. Today, that MTV is gone forever, another cog in the oppressive left-wing corporate conformity that’s currently destroying all of our institutions–which is the primary reason our culture is so fractured. There was a time when everyone could relate to what MTV was selling, which was freedom. Today, MTV is as uptight and bossy as the prigs they once ridiculed.
Nolte: MTV News Is Latest Left-Wing ‘News’ Outlet to Shut Down (breitbart.com)
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From: WALTER784
May-12
Big Tech Bailout: New York Times to Receive $100 Million from Google
ALLUM BOKHARI
10 May 2023
The New York Times, one of the wealthiest media companies in the world with annual revenues of $2.3 billion, is about to receive a major payday: $100 million over three years from Google in a deal to feature the newspaper’s content on its platforms.
The corporate legacy media spent the bulk of its lobbying power over the past two years demanding Congress pass the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a proposed bill that would have forced Big Tech to funnel money to a cartel made up of establishment media companies.
NEW YORK, USA - JUNE 29 : People enter the New York Times (NYT) building in New York, United States on June 29, 2017. NYT employees start a temporary strike against downsizing and dismissal plans of the NYT management. (Photo by Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, USA – JUNE 29 : People enter the New York Times (NYT) building in New York, United States on June 29, 2017. NYT employees start a temporary strike against downsizing and dismissal plans of the NYT management. (Photo by Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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But Big Tech was always ready and willing to bail out the media voluntarily, as evidenced by Google’s latest deal with the New York Times.
Google will pay the left-leaning establishment newspaper approximately $100 million over three years as part of a broad deal to allow the tech giant to feature the NYT’s content across its platforms.
The deal follows other bonanza payments from Google to media companies, including Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, whose lobbyists pushed heavily for the JCPA while Democrats controlled Congress.
It was a News Corp publication, the Wall Street Journal, that broke news of the NYT’s upcoming big tech windfall.
Via the Wall Street Journal:
The deal includes the Times’ participation in Google News Showcase, a product that pays publishers to feature their content on Google News and some other Google platforms, some of the people said. The product has yet to be launched in the U.S., but is available in other countries including Germany, Brazil and Australia.
News Corp, parent of Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., is among the publishers that previously have reached agreements with Google over Showcase and other elements. News Corp in early 2021 announced a multiyear deal with Google and said the deal and other partnerships would generate a combined annual revenue of more than $100 million. Beyond the Journal, News Corp owns news organizations in Australia and the U.K., as well as Barron’s, MarketWatch and the New York Post in the U.S.
Per the WSJ’s report, the deal also encompasses “content distribution and subscriptions, as well as using Google tools for marketing and ad-product experimentation,” although further details of these elements were not revealed by either party.
It’s not the first time Google has devoted large sums of money to propping up the legacy media. In 2019, it committed $300 million to “elevate and strengthen quality journalism.”
Google approved the massive payout for the New York Times despite the fact that the newspaper already has a robust revenue total of $2.3 billion from a variety of sources last year.
By way of comparison, Substack, widely seen as a behemoth of both journalism and subscription revenue, had an estimated $145 million in gross merchandise volume (GMV – the amount of revenue processed by the platform) last year, with an estimated $19 million in revenues for the company itself.
That’s a big revenue stream, even by the standards of tech companies — but it is still dwarfed by the New York Times.
Big Tech Bailout: New York Times to Receive $100 Million from Google (breitbart.com)
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From: Showtalk
May-13
How does he air a show on Twitter? Fox is in trouble if it is proved they leaked his secrets. It’s also not clear how legal it is for a network to do what they did and then say he can’t go anywhere else. He didn’t quit or want to leave, they kicked him out.
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From: Showtalk
May-13
MTV was most popular when Millenials were teens and Gen X were young adults. Now that those groups are approaching 40-50 years old and don’t watch it, they haven’t been able to attract a younger audience.
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From: Showtalk
May-13
People can’t read NYT unless they log in which most people don’t want to do, so how does carrying it in Google platforms help them?
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From: WALTER784
May-13
It would have to be filmed somehow and then posted in a Tweet. As Twitter is not a news organization, I doubt that would break any rules.
As for the legalities and leaks at Fox... we'll have to wait for the court's decision.
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From: WALTER784
May-13
Showtalk said...
People can’t read NYT unless they log in which most people don’t want to do, so how does carrying it in Google platforms help them?
How much is a subscription to NYT? How many subscriptions would $100 million buy?
And don't forget, Google may tie viewing the NYT article into one of their click-bait ads or some other marketing strategy of theirs to increase their ratings.
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From: WALTER784
May-13
Well, when you know that over 90% of what the write is a lie, why even bother wasting your time reading it... even if it were free and you didn't need a backdoor?
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