Traditional print media was already on the ropes long before the crisis, in competition with exploding alternative forms of digital news and independent platforms, but the coronavirus pandemic and accompanying shutdown of the economy could prove the final death blow. Bloomberg reports at a moment newspaper staff in cities and towns across the US are being furloughed in huge numbers and increasingly being issued pay cuts that […]
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Co-host of The Five Jesse Watters riffed on the program Monday that the United States media is almost “rooting” for the speculated coronavirus drug treatment, “Hydroxychloroquine,” not be effective on patients with the COVID-19. Watters began, “There is a lot of stuff floating around about the Hydroxychloroquine, and the media seems to almost be rooting for it not to work. In my opinion, if I was about to […]
Before The Hollywood Reporter’s top editor resigned, he was told by his bosses: tiptoe around Jennifer Lopez; lay off Louise Linton; stop talking so much about box office “bombs”; and ease up on the “negative coverage of the industry.” According to multiple company sources and documents reviewed by The Daily Beast, THR editorial director Matthew Belloni’s departure on Monday came after high-level clashes with the heads […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images For weeks now, we have all been obsessed with the latest statistics regarding the enormous medical impact the coronavirus has had on the United States and the world. The news media has been predictably fixated on two data points in particular, “new confirmed cases” and “deaths” (though oddly, not “hospitalizations,” which is probably the most reliable metric for how bad the situation really […]
President Donald Trump kicked off the new week by repeatedly praising Fox News contributor Gayle Trotter for bashing the media coverage of his coronavirus response and White House press briefings. “Thank you Gayle. I only wish the public could fully understand how corrupt & dishonest so much of our Lamestream Media is,” Trump wrote in response to a tweet from Trotter claiming the media is at […]
Elon Musk’s company is cutting contractors at its car and battery plants in the US amid the coronavirus crisis. The decision may affect hundreds of people, CNBC reports, citing workers and a staffing agency memo. Contractors of Tesla’s manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, and the Gigafactory in Nevada, reportedly learned about the decision at the end of the week. Some of them have been working there […]
World 22:19 GMT 03.04.2020Get short URL LONDON (Sputnik) – The UK media keep digging into ‘the hidden agenda’ of Russian humanitarian assistance to crisis-hit Italy and the United States, overlooking that both efforts were coordinated with the respective governments, the Russian Embassy in London said on Friday. “British media continue publications seeking to find discrepancies and hidden agenda of Russian humanitarian assistance rendered to the United […]