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The media is an economic freefall and much of it is self-inflicted. There’s an undeniable schadenfreude in watching the self-destruction. Like the Daily Beast getting a former Cosmo editor.
The Daily Beast had another scoop. On her first week on the job as chief creative and content officer, Joanna Coles carried a tip into the newsroom: A friend told her that Barron Trump would attend NYU for college. She told a group of staff to write it up for a new gossip column she wanted, called “Beast Buzz.” After trying to confirm the story, the team came up empty, but Coles pressed them to publish. The task fell to Tracy Connor, the editor-in-chief who eschews her office for a simple desk among reporters and editors. As she wrote up the blind item without a byline, Coles said in a voice loud enough for all to hear: “We will see how it does. Let’s hope it’s true!”
“Let’s hope it’s true!” That’s how the media operates when it comes to any Trump story.
Effective immediately, she would hire a Chief Lauren Sanchez Correspondent and a Chief Fruits and Vegetables Correspondent, based in Montecito, California, to cover Meghan Markle’s American Riviera Orchard, which she was “completely obsessed” with. (The Beast would later publish six stories on Markle’s jam in as many days.)
She did assign two other stories that made editors scramble to kill them for fear of embarrassment. One was to follow up on a rumor that Donald Trump passed gas in his criminal trial. She assigned the politics team to reach out to gastroenterologists about whether the emissions were “stress farts or sleep farts.”
“The big question is, what’s going to happen to the journalism?” said one Daily Beast veteran.
Oh, it’s pretty obvious what happened. The same thing that happened to Salon and Slate, both of which once used to be the sort of publications that the Daily Beast replicated. But eventually an audience consisting of ‘Coles’, that is to say wealthy leftist morons, takes over and remakes it into a bunch of advice columns, woke book reviews and hot takes about media content.
Let’s hope it’s true!
Joanna Coles works for “The Daily Beast” and came up with a gossip column called Beast Buzz? That’s hilarious because she is a beast. She’s so ugly her face could turn you to stone.
Don’t make me look up Joanna Coles to see how ugly the beast is. LoL – Fred Sanford would say: You’re uglier than Esther!” https://youtu.be/dsFinMgkSYI?si=maw2ERStE1-sop1a <— in case someone knows not of Sanford and Son…….
That Fred and Esther stuff was funny back in the day when I was a boy. TV couldn’t do that now.
Yes, any lingering confidence the thinking public has had in the so-called mainstream media is dying away. No older, intelligent, honest person believes anything coming from the media without independent verification. But, alas, the damage has already been done. For several generations of younger “news” consumers: thanks to the relentless propaganda coming from video screens — and indoctrination centers some still refer to as schools — this dumbing-down has worked. We have an ignorant (especially of history), easily-led populace. The “from the river to the sea…! ” idiocy is only the most recent example. There is little hope of coming back from this.
Sorry for the early-morning gloom. But this old-timer calls ’em as he sees ’em.
Seems like a pretty open and shut case of libel. Should be worth at least $100 million
in front of a NYC jury?
same one that decided the Times falsely accusing Sarah Palin of shooting a congresswoman wasn’t worth a dime?
We all ready know that the M.S. Media a re all a bunch of Scandal Mongers when it comes to the GOP while they cover up for the Democrats misdeeds
Some news outlets aren’t quite that ethical as in “let’s hope it’s true”. There are some that say, just publish it, if it’s true, fine, if not, just as good.
I don’t get why this is news. Yes it’s the name Trump, but why the stop-the-presses hyperventilating? Sure, it’s crawling with an infestation of wokies, but why would that matter? Maybe these left wing media jackals think that some kind of Animal House hazing awaits Baron, should he attend. Am I missing something?
Hey CNN, I heard a rumor that you are about to go the way of the dinosaur..
I hope it’s true!
Wharton School of Business.
What’s,wrong with going to NYU?