Media industry
fromwww.aljazeera.com
9 hours agoUS media trapped between oligarchy and presidency
Media ownership in the U.S. is increasingly concentrated among billionaires, impacting critical coverage of the president and press dynamics.
With Congress again out for recess-instead of, say, working to end the partial government shutdown or doing something, anything, when the president threatens war crimes-one media organization had the savvy, gall, and, okay, shamelessness to deputize us all as honorary paparazzi.
Our job is not to try and please the president: JAKE TAPPER: Here's another question, in the midst of these major earth shaking issues surrounding the ceasefire last night, life and death issues, why was President Trump so focused on attacking CNN for an accurate report we put out on a real statement put out by Iranian government officials?
Five months into her tenure running CBS News, Bari Weiss is making choices that are drawing scrutiny from inside the building—and raising a question the newsletter class spent the weekend chewing on: where does The Free Press end and CBS News begin? The flashpoint was a Friday report CBS News posted across its social channels about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife, Rama Duwaji, and her Instagram likes from October 7, 2023.