SkyDance Media Promises to Strip the Bias Out of CBS in Both "News" and "Entertainment"

This is a real changing of the (old, ancien) guard.

Is it possible that one legacy network actually realizes that as people cut the cords and abandon TV at accelerating rates it becomes even more crucial to appeal to the entire potential audience, not just the 15% of hard-left Timeline Witch Lunatics they'd rather appeal to?

Could might be!

Skydance Media has made a series of new commitments to eliminate bias in news and entertainment programming at CBS and its parent company, Paramount, when its planned acquisition of the companies is complete. Skydance is also confirming the "elimination" of all "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" policies and initiatives at Paramount, which had been one of the most aggressive proponents of DEI in the entertainment business.

Should the Trump administration, as expected, approve the transaction, Skydance now says it will launch a "comprehensive review of CBS" focused on bias, as well as appoint an "ombudsman" to "evaluate complaints of bias or other concerns involving CBS," and eliminate Paramount's controversial Office of Global Inclusion.

"When it comes to the legacy national news media, change is long overdue," Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr told the Washington Free Beacon.

Meanwhile:

As you know, Jeff Bezos is attempting to change the Washington Post into an actual newspaper instead of a Democrat/Communist Party communications shop. His new regime at the Post sent out emails telling all of its woke ideologues that if they could not "align" themselves with the Post's new mission of being an actual newspaper -- and promoting fascist agenda items like free speech -- they should take the paper's voluntary buy-out package because otherwise they'll just be terminated with no large severance packages.

Essentially management asked employees to accurately classify themselves as either actual journalists or woke DEI hires and professional antifa propagandists, and make a sound prediction about what their future employment opportunities would be.

On Monday, it was reported that black DEI hire and professional homosexual Jonathan Capehart had correctly assessed himself as being likely to receive a pinkslip and so he self-deported.

From Instapundit, quoting The Wrap:

Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart is the latest prominent writer to leave the paper after owner Jeff Bezos revamped the opinion section, with the Pulitzer-winning commentator and frequent Trump critic reportedly accepting a buyout on Monday.

Capehart's buyout was first reported by Axios. He will remain the co-host of MSNBC's "The Weekend" and will still be a panelist on PBS "NewsHour" after leaving WaPo, where he has been since 2007.

And yesterday, Catherine Rampell, a smug communist grifter who looks like the ugly girl in The Last of Us who claims she's a "data-driven journalist" and whose "data-driven" deep dives into issues somehow always result in the conclusion that everything the left-wing Democrat Party tells you is 100% true, announced that she, too, understands that she's a DEI hire and so took the cowardly way out.

Catherine Rampell
@crampell

Some professional news: After 11 years of columnizing at WaPo, I'm taking the buyout.

This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this--11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them...

Below: Catherine Rampell sniffs to Scott Jennings -- who of course she rushes to contradict using her "data-driven journalism" of just checking the DNC's talking points -- that she's "not a Democrat, [she's] a journalist."

Sure, Brunette Jan.

People often say that they don't know who these media mutants are. Here's Bing's AI to tell you who this "data-driven journalist" who's definitely not just a Democrat shill is all about:

Prominent Themes in Rampell's Work

Rampell frequently addresses complex policy issues such as economic reform, immigration policies, healthcare, federal budget debates, and governmental accountability. She is recognized for combining solid data analysis with accessible writing to inform and influence public discourse. Her criticism and coverage include topics like Trump administration policies, immigration reforms, the federal budget's impact on social services, and broader economic trends.

Notable Articles

"First thing we do, let's fire all the statisticians" -- A critical look at the Trump administration's handling and defunding of federal statistics agencies, highlighting dangers to reliable data collection and transparency.

"What a $178 billion gift means for the immigration police state" -- Examines the expansion of funding for immigration enforcement and its societal impact.

"The GOP's big, fat warning sign to the bond market" -- Analyzes Republican budget legislation and its fiscal contradictions, emphasizing concerns over accounting practices and debt.

"Trump is finally building his wall, and we'll all suffer the consequences" -- Discusses the economic and political effects of Trump's border wall and associated immigration restrictions.

"RIP, MAHA" -- A piece on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" initiative, exploring promises vs. realities of health policy reform.

"Biden can easily lift the refugee ceiling. So why hasn't he?" -- Investigates refugee policy under the Biden administration, revealing delays in fulfilling pledges and pushing for change through public pressure.

See what I mean? Weird how all of her "data-driven deep-dives" always result in the conclusion Orange Man Bad, Republican Racist. It's almost as if she's not using the data to find the answers at all, but goes in knowing what her answers are and then just calls up left-wing "experts" to provide her the "data-driven" reasons why The Left Is Always Right.

But that's not all. Fat degenerate loser Philip Bump also announced that he's taking the coward's way out.

And who's he? Well he's been a real lolcow for the right for years. Like Catherine Rampell, he poses as a sophsticated evidence-based "journalist" and like Catherine Rampbell his evidence-based analysis also always results in finding The Left Is Always Right.

And then he melts down when people point out facts he's ignoring to get to his leftist talking point "conclusions." For example, he went on a podcast hosted by a fellow Democrat who's not nearly as much as a braindead shill as Bump is. The Democrat pointed out that while Bump keeps claiming there's "no evidence" that Joe Biden entered into corrupt dealings with his crackhead son, we have an email from Hunter Biden stating "I'm giving half of my salary to dad."

How does Bump respond? Well, after huffing and sweating a bit, he just says "I don't know what to make of that" so he makes nothing of it. He just ignores it like he always ignores all contrary evidence, which is a strange habit for an "evidence-based journalist" to have.

Jonathan Turley mocked this flabby-titted lolcow at the time.

Dworman makes another valiant effort: "I have two issues here. One is Joe Biden's behavior and one is the issue of the press. The press actually bothers me more than Joe Biden."

Bump, however, has all but left the building: "Because you don't listen to the press. I'm sitting here and I'm telling you, you're wrong about these things, and you don't listen, and you continue to insist upon things that are, you know, parsing of language. And it's just, it's this is why I keep saying it's silly." He then says that he is leaving.

Dworman responded "Well, it's a shame because this is a good conversation."

Bump: "It's not a good conversation, because you refuse to listen to what I'm saying to you. You asked me on to present evidence. I keep telling you."

However, what he "keeps telling" Dworman and the public is to just accept his conclusions and not question his support and analysis.

Bump then walks out with a statement that captures perfectly the new media. He first attacks independent journalist Matt Taibbi and says that he has "an agenda."

Dworman delivers a haymaker in response and states "You have no agenda."

That is when Bump delivers his exit line that foreshadowed the Post statement on my column: "I do have an agenda ... My agenda is to do my best to try and present accurate information to the public. And I have an institution behind me to hold me to account when I don't do that, which I think is an important consideration."

Indeed, the Post would then stand entirely behind Bump and claim that all of his false statements were true. Even when other media have acknowledged that these claims were false, the Post insists that they remain true. Thus, the Post is now saying that the following are true despite findings by inspector generals and special counsels to the contrary: (1) Bill Barr did order the clearing of Lafayette Park for the Trump photo op, (2) Barr also lied when he denied the use of tear gas by federal personnel in Lafayette Park, (3) there was never any spying on the Trump campaign by the FBI, (4) Hunter Biden's laptop was seeded with Russian disinformation, and (5) the Clinton campaign was not behind false Russian collusion claims. It is all now deemed true by the Post. It appears that, if "Democracy dies in darkness," journalism more often dies in the light of day.

Few people know this, but this fat sweaty sack of failure gave a Tedx Talk -- you know, not a real Ted Talk, for whatever that's worth, but the junior-league night school discount Temu version of a Ted Talk -- in which he railed against "subjective media" -- media which just mindlessly reassures you that your ideological priors are correct, no matter what the contrary evidence is -- and demanded people only give credence (and obedience) to "institutions" which are completely objective and evidence-based, like his columns in the Washington Post.

As Jerry Seinfeld said: "It's a real scene, man."

He's arguing that the Mueller Report did not exonerate Trump, as everyone else saw it, but in fact only further proved his guilt, just like Philip Bump had believed all along.

Here's his precis of his spittle-flecked "talk:"

Misinformation isn't a result of social media. Social media is the accelerant that created chaos in the wake of a collapse in institutional confidence.

President Trump is the highest-profile spreader of misinformation, but he embraced and stoked misinformation and misinformation systems that already existed, rather than creating the problem.

In part, this is a function of the decline in authority. Once upon a time, people's understanding of the world was more carefully bounded by news outlets and political leaders. The collapse in trust in those institutions coupled with a social media sphere where you can always find someone who agrees with you has led to the growth of misinformation broadly -- but, more problematically, an actual marketplace for falsehoods in the media and in politics.

The absolute

of this flubber-faced floppy-dicked zero-T blob of flopsweat and sexual incompetence to instruct other people that they are reflexive partisans who choose to live in media bubbles that do not really inform them but only provide them with hacky propaganda that reassures them that all of their political biases are 100% correct.

posted by Ace at 05:21 PM

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