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What exactly is happening inside CBS News, and how much is Bari Weiss to blame? How are journalists at CNN feeling about becoming the Ellisons' next target? And what has corporate consolidation done to the media? Oliver Darcy, founder and writer of Status and former senior media reporter for CNN, joins Offline to break it all down. He and Jon also discuss Comcast's announcement that it may spin off NBC, what's going on at Jeff Bezos's Washington Post, and why Oliver has taken his reporting independent.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
03:56 - Are we in a new era of news consolidation?
08:26 - Updates on Bari Weiss’s leadership at CBS and the decline in viewership
15:37 - Ad break
18:07 - What will happen to CNN under Ellison’s ownership?
24:01- Comcast split and what it means
28:01 - How will this era of media consildation affect media jobs/consumption?
33:13 - Ad break
34:21 - How is this affecting right-wing media?
40:20 - Are independment media companies with a paywall a real alternative to billionaire-owned media?
45:19 - How do we get back to shared news reality?
For a transcript of an episode of Offline, please email transcripts@crooked.com.
Is the internet slowly breaking our brains, and if so, what can we do about it? Offline with Jon Favreau is a place where you can take a break from doom-scrolling and tune in to smarter, lighter conversations about the impact of technology & the internet on our collective culture. Intimate interviews between Pod Save America host Jon Favreau and notable guests like Stephen Colbert, Hasan Piker, ContraPoints, Margaret Atwood, and Megan Rapinoe spark curiosity and introspection around the various ways our extremely online existence shapes everything from the ways we live, work, and interact with one another. Together we’ll figure out how to live happier, healthier lives, both on and offline.
Photos courtesy of AP Photo Archive
Crooked Media believes that we need a better conversation about politics, culture, and the world around us—one that doesn’t just focus on what’s broken, but what we can do to fix it. We are a media network that showcases stories, voices, and opportunities for activism that inform, entertain, and inspire action, because it’s up to all of us to do our part to build a better world.
That’s it. End of mission.
Learn more about us at crooked.com
What exactly is happening inside CBS News, and how much is Bari Weiss to blame? How are journalists at CNN feeling about becoming the Ellisons' next target? And what has corporate consolidation done to the media? Oliver Darcy, founder and writer of Status and former senior media reporter for CNN, joins Offline to break it all down. He and Jon also discuss Comcast's announcement that it may spin off NBC, what's going on at Jeff Bezos's Washington Post, and why Oliver has taken his reporting independent.
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REMI: shopremi.com/OFF Code: OFF
QUINCE: quince.com/offline
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
03:56 - Are we in a new era of news consolidation?
08:26 - Updates on Bari Weiss’s leadership at CBS and the decline in viewership
15:37 - Ad break
18:07 - What will happen to CNN under Ellison’s ownership?
24:01- Comcast split and what it means
28:01 - How will this era of media consildation affect media jobs/consumption?
33:13 - Ad break
34:21 - How is this affecting right-wing media?
40:20 - Are independment media companies with a paywall a real alternative to billionaire-owned media?
45:19 - How do we get back to shared news reality?
For a transcript of an episode of Offline, please email transcripts@crooked.com.
Is the internet slowly breaking our brains, and if so, what can we do about it? Offline with Jon Favreau is a place where you can take a break from doom-scrolling and tune in to smarter, lighter conversations about the impact of technology & the internet on our collective culture. Intimate interviews between Pod Save America host Jon Favreau and notable guests like Stephen Colbert, Hasan Piker, ContraPoints, Margaret Atwood, and Megan Rapinoe spark curiosity and introspection around the various ways our extremely online existence shapes everything from the ways we live, work, and interact with one another. Together we’ll figure out how to live happier, healthier lives, both on and offline.
Photos courtesy of AP Photo Archive
Crooked Media believes that we need a better conversation about politics, culture, and the world around us—one that doesn’t just focus on what’s broken, but what we can do to fix it. We are a media network that showcases stories, voices, and opportunities for activism that inform, entertain, and inspire action, because it’s up to all of us to do our part to build a better world.
That’s it. End of mission.
Learn more about us at crooked.com
