I was alone... I felt that with the UK not having free speech, the truth of what was going on in the mainstream media
would never be exposed. I gazed across the Atlantic and envied their.... (insert record-player needle screech!)
They write as if they're the bastions of virtue and sentries watching for corruption. But in reality, those mediums
that were once the darlings of the Left have their own secrets. As the scales fall away from the public's eyes and
they begin to see the mechanism in the background that manufactured the narrative, that same once-trusted
apparatus begins to eat itself.
Maybe one day, we'll see the real ogre that is mainstream media.
would never be exposed. I gazed across the Atlantic and envied their.... (insert record-player needle screech!)
They write as if they're the bastions of virtue and sentries watching for corruption. But in reality, those mediums
that were once the darlings of the Left have their own secrets. As the scales fall away from the public's eyes and
they begin to see the mechanism in the background that manufactured the narrative, that same once-trusted
apparatus begins to eat itself.
Maybe one day, we'll see the real ogre that is mainstream media.
Quote:Newsweek plunged into chaos by its own reporters' exposé.SOURCE:
'Newsweek, once one of the most powerful publications in US media, has a scoop on its hands
–one that has plunged the troubled title further into chaos.
On Tuesday the magazine published an exposé of its owner’s ties to a small evangelical Christian
school, , founded by the David Jang.
Staff were fired and several editors threatened to resign as management tried to interfere in the
publication of the story.
The story –entitled –details links between Newsweek Media Group and Olivet University’s efforts
to develop a campus in upstate New York.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office raided the downtown newsroom of Newsweek in January,
taking 18 computer servers. Its investigations have been reported to be into ties between Olivet
and Newsweek Media Group, formerly known as IBT Media.
Jonathan Davis, co-founder of Newsweek Media Group, is the husband of Tracy Davis, president
of Olivet University. After the raid Olivet denied “shared ownership interests” with Newsweek but
acknowledged “payment for a licensing and R&D arrangement”.
According to the Newsweek report, tax records show Newsweek Media Group paid Olivet millions
of dollars for licensing and research and development agreements. Olivet also offered New York
county officials free advertising in Newsweek, according to the report, as it sought permits and tax
breaks for its new campus. In 2017 Newsweek ran 10 full-page ads –valued at about $149,000
(£106,000) – promoting local services, all free of charge.
“At the same time as Newsweek Media Group was giving away $150k in free advertising as part
of negotiations to secure property for Olivet University, I watched reporters in tears as they laid off
two-thirds of the people in the newsroom,” Newsweek’s associate politics editor, Jason Le Miere,
on Tuesday night.
The story was accompanied by an extraordinary editors’ note describing turmoil at the magazine
and “egregious breaches of confidentiality and journalism ethics”.
“As we were reporting this story, Newsweek Media Group fired Newsweek editor Bob Roe,
executive editor Ken Li and senior politics reporter Celeste Katz for doing their jobs,” it read.
“As we continued working on the story, we were asked to take part in a review process which,
we ultimately learned, involved egregious breaches of confidentiality and journalism ethics.”
The editors claimed “subjects of the story were shown parts of the draft, if not the entire piece,
prior to publication by a company executive who should not have been involved in the process”.
The Daily Beast, which used to be owned by the same company as Newsweek, reported that
the story had been in the works for weeks and had encountered “significant headwinds” from
management.
The editors and reporters involved in the Olivet piece said they resisted efforts of management
to influence the story and “felt they would be forced to resign”.
However, a senior Newsweek Media Group executive then promised that the company’s owners
would ensure editorial independence in the future.
Eventually the story was published, but not without another note at the bottom reading:
“Celeste Katz contributed reporting to this article before she was fired.”
Newsweek Media Group, which bought the 85-year-old publication in 2013, did not immediately
return a request for comment...'
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