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President Trump celebrated the news. “I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired,” he posted on Truth Social. “I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”

Whether overtly coordinated or not, this was the signal for Brendan Carr to approve the Skydance merger.

is there any clearer sign of what’s happening than some of the most prominent left leaning members of the “opposition” party posting their concerns on a right-wing platform?

Adam Schiff is "left leaning" in the same way that Elon Musk is a socialist.

But yes, it is abundantly clear that the Ellisons are buying out Sumner Redstone and the Viacom shareholders in order to impose a more modern Silicon Valley tech sector politics on a network that's long been a thorn in the side of the Republican Party. Just like when Murdoch bought up National Geographic and the Moonies took control of the Washington Times and Bezos seized the Washington Post. Hell, just like when William Randolph Hearst bought up the San Fransisco Examiner and the New York Journal.

only a matter of time …

Back under the Bush Admin, Phil Donahue got axed for opposing the Iraq War and Dan Rather was forced out at CBS for revealing Bush's embarrassing Texas air national guard service. Or just the massive exodus of professional journalists following media consolidation during the 80s and 90s.

We've always been living in this moment. Now we're just at the point where a late night comedian is the last vestige of broadcast media still critical of a sitting President.

Just look at the list of journalists shit-canned in 2024 alone.

This wave of journalism layoffs shows no signs of receding. Since we first published this list, The Intercept, Vice, BDG, WAMU, Engadget, NowThis, and Law360 have let more than a hundred media workers go. With the help of former staff at each, we’ve managed to gather 119 new names. We also heard from many readers that we’d been too conservative in placing the start date of this wave on January 1. The pre-holiday cuts at Wired, The New Yorker, PopSugar, The Washington Post (where former employees hastened to point out that they’d taken buyouts rather than suffering layoffs), Vox, Vice (in a separate wave from this latest one), and Popular Science were too brutal to ignore. So we’ve moved the start date of this list back to November 1 — which is closer to right but is, nevertheless, somewhat arbitrary, given how often media layoff waves tend to crash.

Since we first published, we’ve added more than 250 new names to the list of 354 we had before. We’re under no illusions that this represents everyone affected by mass layoffs in media.

Haven't had cable in 20 years and have never paid for a streaming service.

Life finds a way.

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