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(4,919 posts)I follow her on Twitter, and she seems to be a very vocal (and welcome) critic of other "journalists" these days. I think she's freelancing and allowed to speak her mind by not being affiliated with any media outlet.
Cha
(297,200 posts)I see her on twitter I stop to read it.. and this is the very heart of the matter from Matthew Dowd.
Thank you, targetpractice
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Cha
(297,200 posts)Thanks, bobbieinok
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)IIRC she did an important show on MLK.'s assassination. And one on the history of blacks participating in the Olympics.
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csziggy
(34,136 posts)In June 2013, O'Brien formed the production and distribution company, Starfish Media Group.[29][30] Starfish Media Group signed a deal to produce a series of hour-long documentary specials for Al Jazeera America.[31]
In September 2016, O'Brien became a host of the Hearst Television show, Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, which is produced by Starfish Media Group; in addition to its broadcast availability, it is carried by A&E on Sunday mornings (a network Hearst partly owns).[32]
Other work
From 2013 to 2016, O'Brien was moderator of National Geographic Bee, replacing Alex Trebek who moderated for 25-plus years.[33]
In 2014, O'Brien co-taught a Harvard University Graduate School of Education class with Professor Joe Blatt on "Advancing the Public Understanding of Education."[24]
On May 1, 2016, O'Brien hosted PBS NewsHour Weekend, filling in for Alison Stewart.[citation needed]
On January 12, 2016, O'Brien appeared on PBS's TV genealogy program, Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Finding Your Roots. The focus was on O'Brien's Irish ancestry.
In 2016, O'Brien presented the 'I Am Latino in America' tour, with nationwide stops across the United States. The tour was streamed live globally on MOSH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad_O%27Brien#Starfish_Media_Group
Cha
(297,200 posts)Fla Dem
(23,666 posts)Starfish Media Group
In June 2013, O'Brien formed the production and distribution company, Starfish Media Group.[29][30] Starfish Media Group signed a deal to produce a series of hour-long documentary specials for Al Jazeera America.[31]
In September 2016, O'Brien became a host of the Hearst Television show, Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, which is produced by Starfish Media Group; in addition to its broadcast availability, it is carried by A&E on Sunday mornings (a network Hearst partly owns).[32]
Cha
(297,200 posts)Fla Dem
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Cha
(297,200 posts)Soph0571
(9,685 posts)I put something up a while ago about a black author and journalist who talked about this. She is invited on as an anti-racist onto a programme and so they have a racist on for balance...WTF? There is no balance there... she walked. Swore never to do it again.
K&R
Cha
(297,200 posts)It is EVERYWHERE. And, this from Matthew Down should be posted in EVERY newsroom and newspaper.
Marcuse
(7,480 posts)calimary
(81,250 posts)Oh both sides! Both SIIIIIIIIIIDES!
NO!!!! Sometimes you do NOT need different sides to examine an issue. Especially when one side is complete bullshit.
Theres only room for ONE side: the TRUTH.
TryLogic
(1,723 posts)Cha
(297,200 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)I doubt trump would have made it to the White House. I stopped watching TV news and pundits during the 2016 campaign because of the ridiculous both sides policies and having someone like Santorum or McEnany spewing their lies. Good for Matthew Dowd.
Cha
(297,200 posts)watched and read any m$$$media since November 2002.. but I know from DU that it's only exponentially worse now.
I looked up Dowd's twitter page to see who he is..
https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Mahalo, CatMor!
CatMor
(6,212 posts)when I first read the OP I thought it said Maureen Dowd and then realized it couldn't be her writing something so intelligent and fair.
Cha
(297,200 posts)but I had seen Matthew Dowd's name before(only I couldn't place him).. so I immediately thought he was brilliant!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Cha
(297,200 posts)Mahalo!
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)Cha
(297,200 posts)2002 and I know from DU they've only gotten exponentially worse.. so yeah.. I can relate!
Mahalo, uponit!
Igel
(35,300 posts)"The goal of this ministry is to preach the truth, not be impartial to both sides."
For some, "balance = equal time."
For some, "balance = impartial." An equal effort to hear both sides before being judgmental.
Didn't like it back in the '80s, don't like it 30 years after.
Esp. when in the '80s it was clearly a matter of faith, "evidence of things not seen", while in the '10s it's more a matter of supposed veridicality, "my truth" instead of "the truth" with a push for the two to necessarily be identical: "My truth must be the truth, your truth? Well, sod off."
Cha
(297,200 posts)The US media should shun the lies.. this is what got us where we are.
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)Cha
(297,200 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Cha
(297,200 posts)Mahalo, Pepsidog!
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)There was a time when the news was "mainstream" and everyone basically got the same story so that people from the different perspectives could discuss the interpretation, but since the emergence of a consolidated right wing media ecosystem, a whole segment of the population either hears nothing or hears significant spin about the shared reality. Case in point, Donald Trump. How anyone can believe that he has done anything good for the country is beyond me but if you are hearing what a terrific job he is doing and how the "liberal media" and "fake news" is trying to tear him down, then you are pretty much inoculated from getting any actual facts and trusting them.
There is always a concern of this happening from the left, but there is NOTHING like a consolidated media ecosystem on the left to sustain it. We have mainstream/corporate media, independent media, left leaning and left wing media (tiny) and the right wing media system consisting of Fox News, Sinclair Broadcasting, and other affiliate sources like Breitbart, NewsMax, Drudge, etc... not to mention the thousands of radio stations that send out Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, and their ilk.
Then they want "balance". It is bull crap. They want total media dominance.
Cha
(297,200 posts)our country for a long time and has reached its crescendo with the psycho in power.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)It has been a long project since the Nixon administration with Roger Ailes, Pat Buchanan, Cheney and Rumsfeld, and other creeps who have been around in our politics for far too long.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)That the press NOT print anything that tRUMP says UNTIL it is vetted for truth. That might fix is orange ass or the suckers who suck up to him. Conway, Miller, the lot....Just sayin...
What do you all think?
Cha
(297,200 posts)MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 30, 2019, 08:22 PM - Edit history (1)
Have we come 180 on this issue?
Cha
(297,200 posts)gas lighting of those like Matthew Dowd, mcar!
Thank You!
Mahalo, Scurrilous!
Cha
(297,200 posts)highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)Cha
(297,200 posts)steventh
(2,143 posts)Cha
(297,200 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)Cha
(297,200 posts)Thank You!
Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts)It is a syndicated show that follows MTP here.
Cha
(297,200 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)Cha
(297,200 posts)BootinUp
(47,144 posts)from. Im just so fucking addicted to it, 24/7 I leave it on, GOT to HAVE it!
/sarcasm
Cha
(297,200 posts)at doing the thinking for its viewers.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Discussion of opposing positions within the boundaries of fact is good. What we have now or what it has morphed into is fact versus the illusion of fact. In logic there is neither premice nor resolution when arguing factual reality against dataless fantacy. It simply becomes a battle of wills where both sides stalemate. The only way to reach a factual conclusion is to eliminate the illusion. There's nothing to balance.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Hooray Soledad!
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)aikoaiko
(34,169 posts)By this trend, I mean having people both sides of the liberal-conservative continuum on newsy talk shows who would defend their side regardless of facts.