NewsBusters Podcast: Bezos Becomes ‘Evil Rich Guy’ After WashPost Cuts

The Washington Submit laid off 300 workers this week, remodeling billionaire proprietor Jeff Bezos right into a James Bond villain. Chuck Todd tweeted he was “leaning into the evil wealthy man stereotype.” Homeowners should lose lots of of tens of millions of {dollars} for that “important pillar of democracy” — leftist media bias.

Probably the most annoying media response was that this was a dreadful give up to Trump. New York Instances columnist Nicholas Kristof (final seen working for workplace as a Democrat in his native Oregon), tweeted “Jeff Bezos, who might hold the Wash Submit a pillar of American democracy with the change dug out from his limousine seats, units an instance of give up to authoritarianism for each different enterprise individual and establishment in America.” 

MRC Senior Analysis Analyst Invoice D’Agostino (do not pronounce it “Dag-stinio”) and MRC Free Speech America Director Michael Morris be a part of the present to debate the plight of the American newspaper and the brand new approach many younger Individuals are getting their information — on their cell telephones.  Younger folks at the moment haven’t any connection to studying a newspaper. Wanting like a teenaged weirdo can be as simple as carrying a newspaper.

Anybody carrying an Apple iPhone goes to seek out just one aspect of the information. Our Free Speech America group discovered that Apple Information stubbornly kept away from utilizing any right-leaning retailers within the high 20 articles of its morning editions in January. Of the 620 high tales featured by the information app within the first month of the yr, not a single one was from a right-leaning media outlet. As a substitute, they pushed liberal media like The Washington Submit, AP, NPR, The New York Instances, and the socialist British newspaper The Guardian.

That sample is repeated in different main information apps. From January 1–31, Google Information pushed 349 tales from left‑leaning retailers, which accounted for almost 67 p.c (66.7%) of its high 20 morning editions. The tech large promoted solely 14 right-leaning sources, accounting for just below 3 p.c (2.6%).

Digging in our archives, Invoice unearthed a 2003 MSNBC phase from the outdated primetime present Scarborough Nation, when Joe performed a conservative on TV. In response to California’s intention to present driver’s licenses to unlawful immigrants, Scarborough labeled them ‘criminals’ and warned the licenses would legitimize unlawful immigration by offering probably the most accepted ID in America. 

When a grand jury on January 29 indicted former CNN host Don Lemon for allegedly taking part within the disruption of a Minneapolis-area church service, the company media responded with unanimous outrage. However for all of their hand wringing, not a single journalist has acknowledged even as soon as on any of the large three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) that Lemon’s arrest was, actually, the results of a grand jury indictment.

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