I worked in the TV business from 1980 to 2015... lived all the years Mr. Taibbi is describing. He is at least 95% spot on. Today the market is highly fragmented and the future is on the Web with dozens of "special reporters" an individual can follow. Honest reporters on the Web are getting over 100 000 viewers for their stories, some are over 1 million. Better than any conventional broadcaster.
Good. In 1972 I got an A+ in CommArts 500 by writing a termpaper prophesying the demise of major network corporations at the hands of communnity cable. The internet largely accomplished this.
I haven't watched MSM in over 10 years. I get all my news from my YT livestreamers (most of whom aren't even journalists in the traditional sense). The coverage of Trump's assassination attempt? I watched a GAMING STREAMER for crying out loud. I get more honest and accurate coverage of events from regular every day streamers than I ever would from the networks.
Fox wasn't the cause, it was the reaction. The reason fox went to number one was every other source was presenting a hard left narrative. Fox was the single source presenting the right point of view too. As the single source it did not have to share audience so it had huge ratings.
Exactly correct. It is the main reason why recent efforts to get AI to produce accurate content always seem to have a skew to the left. It is because the AI is essentially just a large data aggregator and the majority of the content out there skews left. As a sidebar, the reason we started getting a shift to the left, starting in the 80s and 90s was because of the shift to only hiring journalists that had bachelors degrees from college. And since the college content already has a left bias, the graduates all naturally also had a left bias.
Right. I like Matt's discussion, but if how he painted the news business prior to Fox was true (all media being balanced, non-partisan), Fox never would have been so popular. Fox was popular precisely because the entire rest of the news media was left-leaning and as a result - unreflectively, unconsciously - biased in their presentation.
Precisely. The host describes Fox News as the cause, but it was the natural reaction among curious and intellectually inquisitive people tired of the relentless far left propaganda of NPRCNNNYT etc
Fox admits they have a right wing bias. But it’s a bias. They don’t just make shit up. All the others literally make shit up. And CNN, MSNBC, and NPR are literally state sponsored media at this point but really they’re all that bad. People should look into how CBS ran off Sharyl Attkisson. Her sin? Her crime? She dared to do her job as a journalist. She dared to bring the same journalistic integrity to her reporting on the Obama administration as she did when Bush 43 was in office. An executive from CBS, not CBS News, but CBS, told her to stop embarrassing the Obama administration. They forced her out because she had actual journalistic integrity. NBC has been caught fabricating and selectively editing so many times it’s unbelievable. Chuck Todd belongs at the top of the list. CNN is now being sued by Joe Rogan because they edited one of his clips and added a headline that said he endorsed Kamala Harris when he was actually talking about Tulsi Gabbard.
You know why the news and colleges seem left leaning? Because the right sided point of view is full of contradictions, dogmatic "common sense", and anti-science. The two sides being equal and deserving equal support is cope.
I probably disagree with Taibbi on a lot of things policy-wise. But I trust his reporting over 99%+ of the other voices out there. One of the few journalists with integrity left.
We need Taibi on much, much more...one of the very few persons to give us truth. In America, sinking lower & lower & lower, Matt is refreshing to hear. Thanks for this message that I longed for, for years, re our "news," and communication.
The history of the press in the United States is complicated, they started as mostly politically aligned papers than with the advent of a more sophisticated liberally educated public; they became more straight news reporting with separate editorial sections, but these papers were still largely aligned idealologically but they got better at hiding it. Will we see today is their flaunting it and will outright distort the news even in the hard facts section which includes redefining the English dictionary. At least back when the political parties were running these papers, they did not try to rewrite the dictionary.
All spot on. But the real key change to news media was the publication of The Exile in Moscow in the 1990’s by Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames… Lenin on rollerblades, baby!! Best publication ever!! ❤ from Moscow, Kyiv, Chicago!!
Matt - In the 1980's , there were over 50 independent media companies in the US . Then in 1996 , Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act , which allowed mergers and acquisitions to occur . As a result today there are about 17 Corporations that control nearly all the Content (News , Social Media , Entertainment) and delivery ( cable , land line , satellite , cellular and internet ) and social media in the US . . I would provide the list , but it would probably be deleted Also , telecom companies should never have been allowed to own media content as well . Because service providers can favour their own media content . .
UA-cam has the news, all sides of it in one place. The internet has destroyed print and most TV news. Most households do not subscribe to a local newspaper. Local TV news is just hanging on.
Serious monopolies when the legal monopolization of delivery which allowed cable RV providers like Commcast exclusive rights to wire neighborhoods. They also choose which Networks they carry in certain areas and certainly at certain price points. Late also forbid choice of coverage -- preferring "bundlinf" So that people end up with dozens or even hundreds Stations on their cable RMRV service to get a single option -- Or a small handful of options -- They desire as customers. Zero real choice, Just. Unaffordable bills and sometimes even menus with thousands of programs that the viewer does not find out they cannot watch until they click on them, Or can identify that they are not available by color coding Which still involves scrolling through hundreds or uowards of a thousand cgannels on the menu. The only option is to switch to dish t v service which offers similar restrictions or overwhelming content instead of choice at point of enrollment wirh the service.
I'd respectfully disagree on one point. I was adult & politically aware (and pro Clinton) during the 92 campaign and remember the "cookies" comment well. A lot of the negative response did not come from her different, professional lifestyle. Rather, it came from the undisguised contempt that it conveyed. That's a side of Ms Clinton that we have come to know very well over the decades but at the time it was out of the blue and quite a slap in the face.
Mentioning 24 hour news cycle brings to my mind the absolutely classic The Onion Network video Some BS Happening Somewhere 😀 "Now in a desparate attempt to fill 24 hours of programming here's some bs that happened somewhere"
I propose the implementation of a Matt Taibbi Truth To Power journalism award, given to those (few) who report with courage and integrity facts that the establishment wants to suppress.
There's one major change you've overlooked. The divide between left- and right-wing news outlets is by no means even. The vast majority of news outlets are loudspeakers for the left. When I returned here in 1996 from an eight-year stay in Ireland, one of the first changes I noticed was that the news outlets all seemed to be speaking in unison. Eventually I discovered that only a few months beforehand, the Clinton administration had signed into law the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Almost overnight, all the American news outlets became owned by only six different corporations, and that remains true to this day. No wonder we have news we can't trust. It has been monopolized by a handful of companies that obviously favor a corporatocracy.
The funny thing about a show like Crossfire was that two people were arguing for things almost no one actually agreed with. Two strawman arguments going at one another while everyone watching slowly got fooled into believing that radical talking points were mainstream beliefs. Now look at us.
I'd like to add a 4th big thing that happened. The consolidation by acquisitions that now have the vast majority (90%?) of news organizations owned by a handful (6-ish) of international corporations. Check the wiki on almost any news organization and look at the ownership histories.
You’re remiss to leave out that the WSJ successfully charged for their paywall to stories whereas the NYT consumers wouldn’t/refused to pay. Details like that always seem to be left out of history lessons.
This video introduces Taibbi as discussing how Fox News was divisive. Unreal. I graduated from Penn State in 1988, and now I can’t stand the place. It’s gone radical far left.
Two developments that you didn’t stress were that at some point over the last few decades, cable news, and news in general, began to spin the news rather than only reporting it. At some point they began to bring on one “Talking Head,” or another, to wax eloquently on their opinions about, “What this all means…” The other point is that “News” became Political Activism, “Reporting” on not what has happened, but on what their preferred ideology requires it to be from a judgemental point of view. Journalism has picked up the mission of trying, “To make the World a Better place,” by converting coverage of “Facts” into a No-Holds-Barred struggle in support of a greater partisan agenda.
4TH Biggest Event - When Matt Taibbi including the 2016 Democratic Primary details in his coverage of the Twitter Files - Oh Wait... HE NEVER COVERED IT!! WHY? B/C HE WAS PAID, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
Once there was mass internet news channels could no longer get viewers by telling us what has happened, they had to tell us what to think about what has happened
I am certainly old enough to clearly remember all of this but even so, I found this video really important for an understanding of 'news' as we know it today. To have this evolution laid out and drilled down was fascinating. Thank you so much. Just a little bit of a quibble would be when you said that the internet changed things overnight. I know that you actually know this, but it really took quite a few years for the internet to mature into this juggernaut. It was also extremely difficult to time the required old media's response. There were those that moved to quickly in early days and were met will real failure and then of course it was the overwhening majority that moved too late. Transformative technology I would garner to say is the single most difficult challenge for business caught in its path.
The 24 hour Superstation (CNN) was a direct result of the around-the-clock coverage of the Iranian hostages. At least that was the impetus at the time.
Good presentation- didn’t hear the mainstream was and is predominantly Left. Also a key point not discussed was the language used in presenting a news story. In the 60s and even the early 70s the race of an individual was told to the viewer. Most notably “Arabs” doing this or that in a world news piece “Negroes” and then “Blacks” for stories here in the states. Now most mainstream media edits the race out. Hard to know most days.
Did you just crawl out from under a rock? Didn't hear MM was lefty? Also, here in the states, media quickly points only leaves out the race of an individual if they are POC's. Also leave out subjects politics if they are negative to the left but quick to point out politics when on the right. So, do better.
If there was a news network that was honestly neutral, I would watch it over FOX or any other of these biased networks. Give me the facts and let me make up my mind. And, eliminate sound bites! I want to hear the whole statement not what the network wants me to hear.
FOX is the biggest, but when you take the other networks, in aggregate, all spewing the same Democrat Party line (frequently verbatim talking points), there are a lot more people watching the other networks than there are people watching FOX. Most people will say they don't watch MSM, but most independent news and commentary channels build all their content on what's in the MSM that day, so its reach is actually just as great, if not greater, if you break it down and see what all the independents are talking about. Most of their content is criticizing MSM, with clips taken from MSM.
my prob with news now is the people reporting are too opinionated , they should keep there shite to themselves as it makes for fake and conflicting presentations .
Sadly, FoxNews perfected the 24/7 Cable News and all the other Networks followed. I used to watch CNN before FoxNews was even invented, and CNN had a few political shows. But they also had Larry King, entertainment shows, even a show to rival ESPN SportsCenter. What FoxNews perfected is to put on the same show throughout the day with a different host so it’s disguised as something new. They had O’Reilly, Hannity, and Laura Ingraham in the primetime slots. They were all Republicans, have different personalities, but they drove the same political narrative all day. CNN and MSNBC finally figured this out and now we have the current landscape of shitty cable news preaching to their own choir 24/7.
This is a great video and very accurate. The rapid expansion of the political polarization of the main stream media was a result of the first two causes, rather than being a major cause. There is a forth cause, or perhaps the 2nd result of the first two causes, which is the collapse of trust in the main stream media. This did occur in the past, which impacted the profits of the main stream media newspapers. The result was the famous strategy of “All the News That's Fit to Print” created by Ochs in 1897. He wrote the slogan as a declaration of the newspaper's intention to report the news impartially, which was not the situation prior to 1897. I am guessing the papers were also facing new technology at the time, which in this case was radio. We may be back in that type of environment and we may need a new Adolph S. Ochs to create a new strategy to save the main stream media.
Matt is still afraid to come out of the closet. Imagine telling his parents: Mom, Dad, I have something shocking to confess. "It's OK, Matt. We love you no matter what. In fact we're actually proud to have a gay son." No, I'm not gay. I'm conservative. "AHHGGG! Where did we go wrong!! How will be face the neighbors?! You go to your room RIGHT NOW!!"
I think he just want the old days back - where politics was an ok conversation… no necessarily conservative - although wanting the old days back - mostly is conservative
Matt, How did FNC monetize an audience that tended to be so old? Advertisers are not interested in trying to appeal to older audiences because corporate America believes it's impossible to change their buying habits. I'm older enough to remember one of the highest rated programs in television history was the Lawrence Welk Show. Since most of Mr Welk"s viewers were ancient fossils, network television abandoned him and his fanbase to PBS. Famously his last advertiser was Geritol.
This is a bit biased. There was a reason that right- leaning outlets became more popular, even before the internet, and that's because network news was always leftist and pro‐socialist.
24 hour news repeated the same 20 minutes over and over, nice facts about newspapers updating 2x per day. Give us 20 minutes, we'll give you the world. - CNN Same on any broadcast station, half hour show is only 22 minutes of news, back then, rest was commercials. We? You're nothing dude, the lisp ended you
How is the Reagan administration abolishing the fairness act not 1st on the list? Everything you listed could’ve been contained had they not gotten rid of the fairness act.
@@stephenkolendaAnd Glenn Greenwald, Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger, Sharyl Attkisson, and Tucker is telling a LOT of truth which is why they hate him! Brett Baer on Fox is good as well and his show is the last national & international evening news program like ABC, NBC, & CBS once had with people like Walter Kronkite, Sam Donaldson, Tom Brokaw, etc. that while biased personally still tried to be objective and give us the news, not opinion. Fox was a reaction to everyone else becoming more & more biased to the left. The media has always had a liberal bias but it moved more blatantly left with Nixon, more with Regan, and much more with Clinton. But they completely sold out for the Black Messiah Obama by becoming activists and it has only gotten worse and of course magnified by biased social media.
✏️ Description: “Journalist and author Matt Taibbi explores three major shifts that redefined the news industry during the 1980s and 1990s. We begin with CNN's introduction of the 24-hour news cycle, which fundamentally changed how news content was produced and presented. Next, we analyze the disruptive impact of the internet, which shattered traditional revenue models and intensified competition among news outlets. Finally, we examine how the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine led to the rise of politically slanted news, with Fox News pioneering this profitable yet polarizing strategy. These transformations have had a lasting impact on how news is consumed today.” 00:00 The Birth of the 24-Hour News Cycle 01:44 Visual Stories and Conflict: The New News Format 04:25 The Internet's Impact on News Revenue 07:09 Political Slant as a Money-Making Strategy 09:15 Fox News and the Rise of Partisan Media
Matt Taibbi is a national treasure.
No he really isn't. Sold out his journalist integrity. He's a shill
I worked in the TV business from 1980 to 2015... lived all the years Mr. Taibbi is describing. He is at least 95% spot on. Today the market is highly fragmented and the future is on the Web with dozens of "special reporters" an individual can follow.
Honest reporters on the Web are getting over 100 000 viewers for their stories, some are over 1 million.
Better than any conventional broadcaster.
Good. In 1972 I got an A+ in CommArts 500 by writing a termpaper prophesying the demise of major network corporations at the hands of communnity cable. The internet largely accomplished this.
I haven't watched MSM in over 10 years. I get all my news from my YT livestreamers (most of whom aren't even journalists in the traditional sense). The coverage of Trump's assassination attempt? I watched a GAMING STREAMER for crying out loud. I get more honest and accurate coverage of events from regular every day streamers than I ever would from the networks.
Agree with you.
Fox wasn't the cause, it was the reaction. The reason fox went to number one was every other source was presenting a hard left narrative. Fox was the single source presenting the right point of view too. As the single source it did not have to share audience so it had huge ratings.
Exactly correct. It is the main reason why recent efforts to get AI to produce accurate content always seem to have a skew to the left. It is because the AI is essentially just a large data aggregator and the majority of the content out there skews left.
As a sidebar, the reason we started getting a shift to the left, starting in the 80s and 90s was because of the shift to only hiring journalists that had bachelors degrees from college. And since the college content already has a left bias, the graduates all naturally also had a left bias.
Right. I like Matt's discussion, but if how he painted the news business prior to Fox was true (all media being balanced, non-partisan), Fox never would have been so popular. Fox was popular precisely because the entire rest of the news media was left-leaning and as a result - unreflectively, unconsciously - biased in their presentation.
Precisely. The host describes Fox News as the cause, but it was the natural reaction among curious and intellectually inquisitive people tired of the relentless far left propaganda of NPRCNNNYT etc
Fox admits they have a right wing bias. But it’s a bias. They don’t just make shit up. All the others literally make shit up. And CNN, MSNBC, and NPR are literally state sponsored media at this point but really they’re all that bad. People should look into how CBS ran off Sharyl Attkisson. Her sin? Her crime? She dared to do her job as a journalist. She dared to bring the same journalistic integrity to her reporting on the Obama administration as she did when Bush 43 was in office. An executive from CBS, not CBS News, but CBS, told her to stop embarrassing the Obama administration. They forced her out because she had actual journalistic integrity. NBC has been caught fabricating and selectively editing so many times it’s unbelievable. Chuck Todd belongs at the top of the list. CNN is now being sued by Joe Rogan because they edited one of his clips and added a headline that said he endorsed Kamala Harris when he was actually talking about Tulsi Gabbard.
You know why the news and colleges seem left leaning? Because the right sided point of view is full of contradictions, dogmatic "common sense", and anti-science. The two sides being equal and deserving equal support is cope.
To quote Richard Nixon: "television is to truth as bumper stickers are to philosophy"
I probably disagree with Taibbi on a lot of things policy-wise. But I trust his reporting over 99%+ of the other voices out there. One of the few journalists with integrity left.
I preferred Dan Ackroyd and Jane Curtin.
Jane, you ignorant...
Norm's weekend update has never been bested.
We need Taibi on much, much more...one of the very few persons to give us truth. In America, sinking lower & lower & lower, Matt is refreshing to hear.
Thanks for this message that I longed for, for years, re our "news," and communication.
And Bari Weiss!!
The history of the press in the United States is complicated, they started as mostly politically aligned papers than with the advent of a more sophisticated liberally educated public; they became more straight news reporting with separate editorial sections, but these papers were still largely aligned idealologically but they got better at hiding it.
Will we see today is their flaunting it and will outright distort the news even in the hard facts section which includes redefining the English dictionary.
At least back when the political parties were running these papers, they did not try to rewrite the dictionary.
If only people would have listened to Patrick J. Buchannon😢
And Ross Perot. And Ron Paul.
Love the cymbal as a door stop!!!
True brother right there.
Also, Matt happens to be delivering THE goods.
Thanks man ..... Really.
To be fair, I think conservatives were pretty spot-on about Hillary.
What a great explanation of how we got here today, thank you Matt Taibbi ❤
All spot on. But the real key change to news media was the publication of The Exile in Moscow in the 1990’s by Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames… Lenin on rollerblades, baby!! Best publication ever!! ❤ from Moscow, Kyiv, Chicago!!
Prior to CNN, the news divisions of the major networks weren't expected to turn a profit. They were supported by their entertainment divisions
Point - Counter Point was the best news show.
Matt - In the 1980's , there were over 50 independent media companies in the US .
Then in 1996 , Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act , which allowed mergers and acquisitions to occur .
As a result today there are about 17 Corporations that control nearly all the Content (News , Social Media , Entertainment)
and delivery ( cable , land line , satellite , cellular and internet ) and social media in the US .
.
I would provide the list , but it would probably be deleted
Also , telecom companies should never have been allowed to own media content as well .
Because service providers can favour their own media content .
.
UA-cam has the news, all sides of it in one place. The internet has destroyed print and most TV news. Most households do not subscribe to a local newspaper. Local TV news is just hanging on.
Serious monopolies when the legal monopolization of delivery which allowed cable RV providers like Commcast exclusive rights to wire neighborhoods. They also choose which Networks they carry in certain areas and certainly at certain price points. Late also forbid choice of coverage -- preferring "bundlinf" So that people end up with dozens or even hundreds Stations on their cable RMRV service to get a single option -- Or a small handful of options -- They desire as customers. Zero real choice, Just.
Unaffordable bills and sometimes even menus with thousands of programs that the viewer does not find out they cannot watch until they click on them, Or can identify that they are not available by color coding Which still involves scrolling through hundreds or uowards of a thousand cgannels on the menu.
The only option is to switch to dish t v service which offers similar restrictions or overwhelming content instead of choice at point of enrollment wirh the service.
The Spanish-American War was very good for William Randolph Hearst.
Fantastically useful history lesson. I lived through it, but Matt puts it together in the most concise and practical way. 🙏
Liked & subscribed…really important journalism by Matt, what do you know, a REAL journalist these days 🇺🇸👍
I'd respectfully disagree on one point. I was adult & politically aware (and pro Clinton) during the 92 campaign and remember the "cookies" comment well. A lot of the negative response did not come from her different, professional lifestyle. Rather, it came from the undisguised contempt that it conveyed. That's a side of Ms Clinton that we have come to know very well over the decades but at the time it was out of the blue and quite a slap in the face.
Very concise. Thanks Matt, I thoroughly enjoyed this. I think that you nailed it.
“News?!” No, it’s prop a gan da.
What a great contribution, thank you Mr Taibbi.
Nice narrative regarding how me got to where we are today regarding the media and journalism.
Mentioning 24 hour news cycle brings to my mind the absolutely classic The Onion Network video Some BS Happening Somewhere 😀 "Now in a desparate attempt to fill 24 hours of programming here's some bs that happened somewhere"
I propose the implementation of a Matt Taibbi Truth To Power journalism award, given to those (few) who report with courage and integrity facts that the establishment wants to suppress.
There's one major change you've overlooked. The divide between left- and right-wing news outlets is by no means even. The vast majority of news outlets are loudspeakers for the left. When I returned here in 1996 from an eight-year stay in Ireland, one of the first changes I noticed was that the news outlets all seemed to be speaking in unison. Eventually I discovered that only a few months beforehand, the Clinton administration had signed into law the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Almost overnight, all the American news outlets became owned by only six different corporations, and that remains true to this day. No wonder we have news we can't trust. It has been monopolized by a handful of companies that obviously favor a corporatocracy.
The funny thing about a show like Crossfire was that two people were arguing for things almost no one actually agreed with. Two strawman arguments going at one another while everyone watching slowly got fooled into believing that radical talking points were mainstream beliefs. Now look at us.
Yah Matt BUT those depicted as villains by Fox WERE actual Villains😂 And the Metrics were (mostly) at hand!
I'd like to add a 4th big thing that happened. The consolidation by acquisitions that now have the vast majority (90%?) of news organizations owned by a handful (6-ish) of international corporations. Check the wiki on almost any news organization and look at the ownership histories.
You’re remiss to leave out that the WSJ successfully charged for their paywall to stories whereas the NYT consumers wouldn’t/refused to pay. Details like that always seem to be left out of history lessons.
Is “mouthpiece for billionaires” an honest characterization?
Yep
@@Trebor1960If you say so. I’m sure you’re in a position to know. I can’t argue with your logic.
Very interesting. And as an aside, cool cymbal in the background
Ive been thinking that the cymbal at the door is some kind of home alarm system or it's to hold a demon behind that door
It's an effective branding tool. I honor and love this man's work.
The bill of rights is the only thing that keeps the press from being a government agency. And by the way the constitution is only twenty pages😊.
In Canada almost media is financed by the party in power.
This video introduces Taibbi as discussing how Fox News was divisive. Unreal. I graduated from Penn State in 1988, and now I can’t stand the place. It’s gone radical far left.
Two developments that you didn’t stress were that at some point over the last few decades, cable news, and news in general, began to spin the news rather than only reporting it. At some point they began to bring on one “Talking Head,” or another, to wax eloquently on their opinions about, “What this all means…”
The other point is that “News” became Political Activism, “Reporting” on not what has happened, but on what their preferred ideology requires it to be from a judgemental point of view. Journalism has picked up the mission of trying, “To make the World a Better place,” by converting coverage of “Facts” into a No-Holds-Barred struggle in support of a greater partisan agenda.
4TH Biggest Event - When Matt Taibbi including the 2016 Democratic Primary details in his coverage of the Twitter Files - Oh Wait... HE NEVER COVERED IT!! WHY? B/C HE WAS PAID, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
Once there was mass internet news channels could no longer get viewers by telling us what has happened, they had to tell us what to think about what has happened
Where is the rest of this discussion? It seems like part of it was cut off, and I'd like to hear it all. Thanks!
Uploading in 480p in 2024. I thought my internet was on the fritz again.
I am certainly old enough to clearly remember all of this but even so, I found this video really important for an understanding of 'news' as we know it today. To have this evolution laid out and drilled down was fascinating. Thank you so much. Just a little bit of a quibble would be when you said that the internet changed things overnight. I know that you actually know this, but it really took quite a few years for the internet to mature into this juggernaut. It was also extremely difficult to time the required old media's response. There were those that moved to quickly in early days and were met will real failure and then of course it was the overwhening majority that moved too late. Transformative technology I would garner to say is the single most difficult challenge for business caught in its path.
With 24 hours to fill, you can just make stuff up
The 24 hour Superstation (CNN) was a direct result of the around-the-clock coverage of the Iranian hostages. At least that was the impetus at the time.
Good presentation- didn’t hear the mainstream was and is predominantly Left. Also a key point not discussed was the language used in presenting a news story. In the 60s and even the early 70s the race of an individual was told to the viewer. Most notably “Arabs” doing this or that in a world news piece “Negroes” and then “Blacks” for stories here in the states. Now most mainstream media edits the race out. Hard to know most days.
Did you just crawl out from under a rock? Didn't hear MM was lefty? Also, here in the states, media quickly points only leaves out the race of an individual if they are POC's. Also leave out subjects politics if they are negative to the left but quick to point out politics when on the right. So, do better.
If there was a news network that was honestly neutral, I would watch it over FOX or any other of these biased networks. Give me the facts and let me make up my mind. And, eliminate sound bites! I want to hear the whole statement not what the network wants me to hear.
“Combatants” Love that
Your broadcast digital quality does not do justice to your content. Thanks.
Not telling the truth is the biggest thing. 1. What is the topic? 2. What happened? 3. Who/what was involved? 4. Where did it happen?
Could we get rid of the 24hr news cycle?
How do we get a balance back
I think Matt just got back from the dentist.
The View is legacy catvideo😂
20,000 views. Only 50 comments? I hope that doesn’t mean what I think it means
Great assessment.
FOX is the biggest, but when you take the other networks, in aggregate, all spewing the same Democrat Party line (frequently verbatim talking points), there are a lot more people watching the other networks than there are people watching FOX.
Most people will say they don't watch MSM, but most independent news and commentary channels build all their content on what's in the MSM that day, so its reach is actually just as great, if not greater, if you break it down and see what all the independents are talking about. Most of their content is criticizing MSM, with clips taken from MSM.
my prob with news now is the people reporting are too opinionated , they should keep there shite to themselves as it makes for fake and conflicting presentations .
I love taibbi. But TIL he sounds like he has never touched Cannabis at 1.25x
2024: Matt Taibbi has a voice over for legacy media museum - memorial talks…. (MSNBC/CNN - - is dead as Disco baby)
Sadly, FoxNews perfected the 24/7 Cable News and all the other Networks followed. I used to watch CNN before FoxNews was even invented, and CNN had a few political shows. But they also had Larry King, entertainment shows, even a show to rival ESPN SportsCenter.
What FoxNews perfected is to put on the same show throughout the day with a different host so it’s disguised as something new. They had O’Reilly, Hannity, and Laura Ingraham in the primetime slots. They were all Republicans, have different personalities, but they drove the same political narrative all day. CNN and MSNBC finally figured this out and now we have the current landscape of shitty cable news preaching to their own choir 24/7.
This is a great video and very accurate. The rapid expansion of the political polarization of the main stream media was a result of the first two causes, rather than being a major cause. There is a forth cause, or perhaps the 2nd result of the first two causes, which is the collapse of trust in the main stream media. This did occur in the past, which impacted the profits of the main stream media newspapers. The result was the famous strategy of “All the News That's Fit to Print” created by Ochs in 1897. He wrote the slogan as a declaration of the newspaper's intention to report the news impartially, which was not the situation prior to 1897. I am guessing the papers were also facing new technology at the time, which in this case was radio. We may be back in that type of environment and we may need a new Adolph S. Ochs to create a new strategy to save the main stream media.
Matt is still afraid to come out of the closet. Imagine telling his parents: Mom, Dad, I have something shocking to confess.
"It's OK, Matt. We love you no matter what. In fact we're actually proud to have a gay son."
No, I'm not gay. I'm conservative. "AHHGGG! Where did we go wrong!! How will be face the neighbors?! You go to your room RIGHT NOW!!"
I think he just want the old days back - where politics was an ok conversation… no necessarily conservative - although wanting the old days back - mostly is conservative
Matt, How did FNC monetize an audience that tended to be so old? Advertisers are not interested in trying to appeal to older audiences because corporate America believes it's impossible to change their buying habits. I'm older enough to remember one of the highest rated programs in television history was the Lawrence Welk Show. Since most of Mr Welk"s viewers were ancient fossils, network television abandoned him and his fanbase to PBS. Famously his last advertiser was Geritol.
Apples to Oranges. Fox News is on cable TV. The Lawrence Welk show was on broadcast TV.
Also, their audience isnt all old people, smh.
He is the last real journalist
This is a bit biased. There was a reason that right- leaning outlets became more popular, even before the internet, and that's because network news was always leftist and pro‐socialist.
Make news boring again
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Hey Matt, why don’t you do something of value like an in-depth expose of Bill Gates?
Matt had been fantastic at exposing your pals.
24 hour news repeated the same 20 minutes over and over, nice facts about newspapers updating 2x per day.
Give us 20 minutes, we'll give you the world. - CNN
Same on any broadcast station, half hour show is only 22 minutes of news, back then, rest was commercials.
We? You're nothing dude, the lisp ended you
I’ve never seen Matt this unhinged. I hope he’s okay.
24 hour propaganda cycle.
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How is the Reagan administration abolishing the fairness act not 1st on the list? Everything you listed could’ve been contained had they not gotten rid of the fairness act.
Conservative listen to Alex Jones first
Matt Taibbi is a hack. Twitter files was a joke, an absolute joke only serving to sully his rep.
Matt Taibi has been a mouthpiece for billionaires. He's arguably one of the last people who's opinions on Democracy truly matters IMO.
He is the only one who's willing to tell the truth and not a narrative of the racist left
@@stephenkolendaAnd Glenn Greenwald, Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger, Sharyl Attkisson, and Tucker is telling a LOT of truth which is why they hate him! Brett Baer on Fox is good as well and his show is the last national & international evening news program like ABC, NBC, & CBS once had with people like Walter Kronkite, Sam Donaldson, Tom Brokaw, etc. that while biased personally still tried to be objective and give us the news, not opinion.
Fox was a reaction to everyone else becoming more & more biased to the left.
The media has always had a liberal bias but it moved more blatantly left with Nixon, more with Regan, and much more with Clinton. But they completely sold out for the Black Messiah Obama by becoming activists and it has only gotten worse and of course magnified by biased social media.
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✏️ Description:
“Journalist and author Matt Taibbi explores three major shifts that redefined the news industry during the 1980s and 1990s.
We begin with CNN's introduction of the 24-hour news cycle, which fundamentally changed how news content was produced and presented.
Next, we analyze the disruptive impact of the internet, which shattered traditional revenue models and intensified competition among news outlets.
Finally, we examine how the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine led to the rise of politically slanted news, with Fox News pioneering this profitable yet polarizing strategy.
These transformations have had a lasting impact on how news is consumed today.”
00:00 The Birth of the 24-Hour News Cycle
01:44 Visual Stories and Conflict: The New News Format
04:25 The Internet's Impact on News Revenue
07:09 Political Slant as a Money-Making Strategy
09:15 Fox News and the Rise of Partisan Media