Americans are sick and tired of the mainstream media’s bias and outright lies advancing the official Democrat-party narratives. From Russia! Russia! Russia! to Covid masks and vaccinations to 95% negative coverage of Trump and 95% tongue bath coverage of Kamala Harris, the legacy media has shot itself in the foot. A news story about Illinois losing 86% of its journalists clarifies it nicely. Maybe those “journalists” – many really just nothing more than Democrat Party operatives with bylines – can learn to code.
That’s right. Learn to code.
Karma comes around after years, indeed decades of anti-gun rights “reporting” in local newspapers. Heck, the Champaign News-Gazette and the Bloomington Pantagraph still sport “No Guns” signage on their doors last time I drove by their respective offices. Why are they so opposed to good guys carrying in their offices? Do they think so little of us that we are going to slaughter them just because we’re having a bad day? Maybe they might feel like shooting people they disagree with if they had a gun, but we don’t even though we do have guns.
From WBEZ Chicago:
As newspapers continue to close across the country, Illinois has been particularly hard hit. The state has lost 86% of its journalists since 2005 — the highest percentage decline in the nation, according to the Medill State of Local News report released in October. Nationally, there was a 60% drop in newspaper journalist positions during that same period.
Illinois’ disproportionately larger number of newspaper job losses is because many of its news organizations are owned by corporate chains, Tim Franklin, director of the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, said at a presentation last month at the Field Foundation. Several of those corporations are all, or in part, controlled by private equity or hedge funds.
“Those ownership groups have been especially aggressive about cutting costs, especially Tribune-owned Alden Global Capital. Several other chains, including Gannett and Lee, also have hollowed out newsrooms and are duplicating news coverage across their various Illinois markets,” Franklin said.
No kidding?
Since 2005, more than one-third of U.S. newspapers — 3,300 outlets — have closed. In that time, Illinois has lost 36% of its newspapers, or 232 outlets, and Cook County has lost 40% of its newspapers.
Illinois has also lost 54% of its newspaper workers, or about 4,600 positions, in the decade ending in 2023.
That’s a good start. Until and unless they resume unbiased reporting, it would seem there are a few thousand additional positions that can get lost.
The Medill report said Illinois has five counties that are “news deserts,” which includes Clay, Edwards, Jasper, White and Alexander counties. News deserts are areas without any locally-based source of news. Forty Illinois counties now have only one news source.
No, we have alternative media, along with local TV and radio (for those who still watch tv or listen to terrestrial radio, which is quickly headed towards zero). Alternative media online is thriving as people want unbiased reporting. Something these J-school scribblers have no clue about.
In a separate report also shared last month at the Field Foundation, the Institute of Independent Journalists found that women, younger people and journalists of color were disproportionately affected by job cuts, said Katherine Reynolds Lewis, executive director of the IIJ Foundation.
Women comprised 68% of the 176 survey participants who were laid off in 2022 or later, IIJ said. However, women make up only 46% of U.S. journalists.
Yeah. These are the people that would headline a story about an Earth-bound asteroid like this: Asteroid to strike Earth. People of Color and Women disproportionately at risk.
Journalists of color were 42% of respondents, but only represent 17% of the industry’s workforce.
Of the survey’s laid-off respondents, 58% were White; 20% were Asian; 13% Hispanic and 7% Black. By comparison, the U.S. media workforce is 76% White; 8% Hispanic; 6% Black and 3% Asian.
The racial obsession of these people is off-the-charts.
Was at the store recently, and they had the News-Gazette on the stand. It was the weekend edition, and I believe it was over $4. Can’t imagine they are selling a whole lot at that price.
I don’t have a cat so I don’t need anything to line a litter box with.
I don’t have birds so I don’t have to line the birdcage with a newspaper.
The only use I have for the crap rags that all newspapers have become (except gun news of course) is to wash my car windows (that’s a little trick my mama taught me- if you guys are unaware using newspaper doesn’t leave streaks while using paper towel does) or lay one down in front of the fireplace when I clean out the fireplace ash and it’s about time so I may have to actually buy a newspaper for the first time in a decade. I’m not saying I hope this saves them from bankruptcy but what am I going to do when there aren’t any newspapers left?