Today, @splcenter – an organization with nearly a billion dollars in reserves, given an F rating by CharityWatch for “hoarding” donations – gutted its staff by a quarter.
— SPLC Union (@SPLCUnion) June 12, 2024
SIO, the SPLC, and The Daily Beast all falling to ash in the last 48 hours.
Massive wins. pic.twitter.com/kfen1Uc5qL
— Andrew Torba (@BasedTorba) June 15, 2024
Daily Beast announced buyouts, dumping 70% of union staff.
SPLC, Vice, Media Matters … all firing staff.
Nature is healing … feel good stories this week. pic.twitter.com/JiPX1ioKG8
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) June 15, 2024
Bad News: I’ve been laid off from @mmfa, along with a dozen colleagues.
There’s a reason far-right billionaires attack Media Matters with armies of lawyers: They know how effective our work is, and it terrifies them (him).
— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) May 23, 2024
I’m glad that I was too busy to react to this story.
The dominos have continued to fall over the past few days with the Stanford Internet Observatory shutting down and more news about the mass buyouts and layoffs at The Daily Beast. This comes in the wake of VICE going bankrupt and mass layoffs at Media Matters and BuzzFeed.
Democracy might even die in the darkness at The Washington Post:
Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis had a blunt message for his staff during a tense meeting following the sudden ouster of executive editor Sally Buzbee, according to the paper’s own reporting.
“We are going to turn this thing around, but let’s not sugarcoat it. It needs turning around,” Lewis told the paper. “We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.” …
Kat Abu at Media Matters is out of a job.
Michael Edison Hayden is apparently out at the SPLC.
Taylor Lorenz wasn’t exaggerating in that video about the death spiral of “journalism.”
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Author: Hunter Wallace
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