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“Joy Reid will lose her 7p show in the next round of reshuffling at MSNBC,” Nicosia tweeted quoting a source. “She does not have a show come mid Spring.” He said the “decision has been made, the only thing left is messaging on the move, which will be ratings. As was the case with Chris Cuomo at CNN, Reid has allies at Comcast, however, she is now viewed as “unmanageable” by many. Also, similar to Cuomo, it appears those allies have found out she has been “less than truthful about past incidents.”

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/01/06/buh-bye-joy-reid-n502931

Good move, finally.

Was she ever misnamed!

According to sources breaking out of Comcast, MSNBC’s Joy-less Reid is going to get the ax. Her show is going to go bye-bye because they finally just had enough with her.

When even MSNBC puts you out to pasture, you're pretty much done in media.

 

Trump Effect On Media

The Hill, Washington Post, New York Times, Politico, Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Vox Media have lost a large percentage of monthly unique visitors since Trump led the nation, according to Comscore data cited by the Journal.

“Newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I’m not there,” Trump predicted in 2017, “because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes.”

 

Looks like Trump was correct, again.

They're down by as much as 48%, now that they don't have him to kick around.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/17/establishment-medias-readership-collapses-48-without-trumps-presidency/

 

Welp,They Finally Stuck A Name On That Big Winter Storm

They're not going to keep calling it "big winter storm". Nope, they've decided to pin a name on it: "Orlena". Whatever, it's in the news now.

In any case, if you're heading out to the liquor store, you probably better get a move on.

 

Time To Find Real Work

Newsroom layoffs reached a record high in 2020, growing nearly 200% compared to the previous year, according to a new study from the global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The grim numbers come as multiple news organizations and TV news networks, including Fox News, ABC News, BuzzFeed, Vox Media, Vice Media, the New York Post, The Atlantic, Fortune magazine, the Tampa Bay Times and the New York Times, announced layoffs across their news and business divisions in 2020.

"Layoff" seems to be a more politically-correct term than the somewhat more bruising term for what's really happening: "you're fired". Are you going to miss any of them?

 

CNN - Your Source For News You Can't Use

They can't even find Minnesota on a map.

 

CV-19

People are dying! Everybody panic! Stay home!

Works for me.

The more people who imprison themselves, the greater my freedom.

I've already had CV-19, several weeks ago, and fully agree with others who have also had it and claim that it's horrible. They're masters of understatement. But after a couple of weeks, we pulled through.

Our forebears made it through times that were much more deadly, but they didn't have media relentlessly and breathlessly "reporting" the horrors to them on an hourly basis.

When I was a kid, an uncle of mine lived in what they called an iron lung. If you want to talk about life, death, and weirdness, try visiting a relative who's in an iron lung. So my view goes something like this:

There is good evidence that being alive on the planet is deadly. 100% of people on this planet will die.

Most of the people who have died from CV-19 have had underlying infirmities ranging from old age to diabetes, while many healthy people tend to survive. I fall into the latter category, even as an old fart. But I'm a healthy old fart.

It's not CV-19 itself; it's CV-19 combined with underlying conditions that results in death - the virus itself is less lethal by far than many of the other illnesses and evils to which we've been exposed in the past. And to which we'll be exposed in the future.

The difference, really, comes down to media exposure.

But since everyone's staying at home, the roads are clear. That's really nice, as it greatly reduces the likelihood of getting into a wreck. So why haven't your car insurance rates gone down?

 

CBS closes NYC offices after two employees positive for coronavirus

Both of the network's viewers are reportedly disheartened.

Finally, Good News On MSNBC!

Always classy, Matthews left in the middle of his show.

 

Killer Ride

VAIL, Colo. (AP) — A skier appears to have suffocated to death at a Colorado resort after he fell through an opening in a chairlift seat and became caught with his coat wrapped around his head and neck, officials said. Jason Varnish of Short Hills, New Jersey, died of positional asphyxia Thursday at Vail Mountain’s Blue Sky Basin area, according to Eagle County Coroner Kara Bettis.

Apparently, we should ban chairlifts, as they're proven killers.

On another note: how, exactly, does someone "suffocate to death"? Of course, it's an AP article, so they probably needed to take up some space. In the real world, the term "suffocate" would suffice.

(1) : to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation)

 

No News Is Good News...

New Jersey Trump rally in Wildwood was YUGE. So big, in fact, that the venue was quickly filled to the brim, leaving some 165,000 people to tough it out around the arena. With that kind of crowd, police closed several streets in the area to parking in order to facilitate a relatively free flow of traffic. CBS News didn't think it applied to them. They were wrong.

Live and learn, guys....

Put that in the "OOPS!" file....