The media purge continues apace.
MSNBC dismissed most of Rachel Maddow's staff and gave Joy Reid the boot. Other networks have either fired or had journalists step down, including Andrea Mitchell, Norah O'Donnell, Chuck Todd, and Jim Acosta.
Now Disney, the parent company of ABC News, is cutting 200 jobs and restructuring some programming:
🚨JUST IN🚨
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) March 5, 2025
ABC News is cutting 200 jobs.
ABC News, owned by Disney, is reportedly restructuring its programming, including merging its “20/20” and “Nightline” programs and consolidating its “Good Morning America” productions.
Disney is also cutting the FiveThirtyEight data… pic.twitter.com/tN2jsPHeI8
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Disney is also cutting the FiveThirtyEight data news site.
'As we’ve often talked about, streamlining our operation to best serve our viewers and continue to position ourselves as a leading news organization has been a goal for some time,' said ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic in a memo to employees.
Here's more from The Hollywood Reporter:
The Walt Disney Co. is slashing just under 200 jobs at ABC News and at its Disney Entertainment Networks division as the traditional TV business continues to face economic headwinds, a source familiar with the decision tells The Hollywood Reporter. The cuts represented about 6 percent of the division’s workforce.
ABC News will be hit particularly hard, with the data-driven digital news brand 538 being shuttered, teams from Nightline and 20/20 being consolidated, and all three hours of Good Morning America moving under the same top producer, Simone Swink. The company is also merging its digital and social operations.
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As media continue to double down on being propagandists for the Democratic Party, expect more of this.
They do the top of the hour news on AM radio stations across America and are atrocious.
— CoolRick and 1 million others (@CoolRickCentral) March 5, 2025
Lies, lies, gaslighting, lies.
That's what media do best.
USAID money spigot is off
— Blaine S🇺🇸 (@BlaineS8675309) March 5, 2025
The timing does make us question whether or not this is the case.
We wouldn't be surprised if it is.
They can consolidate the evening line up and call it Nighty/Nighty.
— Tracy Bullard (@tracy_1966) March 5, 2025
They can rename the morning show to just Good Morning, because most of America ain't watching it.
Those are not bad suggestions.
Absolutely an incredible "Feel Good" story considering ABC news track record of lately.
— Daniel Bell (@Total6Package) March 5, 2025
We need to see more of this as independent media gains viewership.
We are media now.
Cut @TheView ! Cut @TheView ! Or at least get a whole new panel. @ABC
— American Rose (@American_Rose_) March 5, 2025
We have to wonder how long 'The View' will hang on.
How much USAID money is no longer making its way into the coffers of ABC news? https://t.co/56whYlYrYM
— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) March 5, 2025
Lots of people asking this question.
GMA is nothing more than a long commercial bracketed by advertisements. https://t.co/UL9ys9q0rh
— habez (@habe3693) March 5, 2025
This is accurate.
Even Disney is DOGEing. https://t.co/88tUoDqJ28
— AV8R (@av8r992) March 5, 2025
DOGE is inevitable.
Are they going to show crying videos of those they are firing? Maybe someone will sue them and force them to keep all those employees … https://t.co/bfyEKldlhD
— JoJo (@cjs130) March 5, 2025
That's what the federal government employees are doing.
Private sector employees have no such luck.
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