Listen Jon Talks About the Media—And It Talks Back We invited Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan to talk with Jon abou...
Read THE PROBLEM WITH The Media Please Attack Me Too! An anonymous staff writer begs the media to drag him through the mud so that he to...
Read THE PROBLEM WITH The Media Read This Article Or Your Grandma Will Die! Our writer Jay Jurden is begging you to click click click...
Watch How Newsrooms Blame The Audience We like to think TV news is about informing us but like all TV, it’s about ratings. Jon...
Watch Where Does Mainstream Media Go Wrong? One side of the media believes they deliver truth and justice, and the other side is ef...
Watch Ratings Are Killing The News Most journalists get into the news business to tell important stories with a purpose, b...
Watch Can The News Be Fixed? An Interview With D... Jon sits down with former Disney CEO and Chairman Bob Iger, who oversaw ABC news, to se...
Watch MUST WATCH! How TV News Is ACTIVELY Baitin... Before there was clickbait there were TV News headlines: Carefully crafted language des...
Read THE PROBLEM WITH The Media How to Fix the Broken News Media We need to reshape the media industry to focus less on ratings and more on actual ...
Listen Jon Talks About the Media—And It Talks Back We invited Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan to talk with Jon about the media sensationalism—and YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT! Actually, you will. They have a thoughtful discussion about the state of news media and if it can be improved.
Read Please Attack Me Too! An anonymous staff writer begs the media to drag him through the mud so that he too might sell out comedy clubs across the country...
Read Read This Article Or Your Grandma Will Die! Our writer Jay Jurden is begging you to click click click...
Watch How Newsrooms Blame The Audience We like to think TV news is about informing us but like all TV, it’s about ratings. Jon is joined by former CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien, former Fox News exec Chris Stirewalt, and Scripps local news exec Sean McLaughlin to see if there’s a better way. Checking the minute-to-minute ratings and making live adjustments on the fly can’t be good for the integrity of the product. (checks notes) It's not good for the integrity of the product.
Watch Where Does Mainstream Media Go Wrong? One side of the media believes they deliver truth and justice, and the other side is effective. Jon looks at the difference between right-wing and “mainstream media,” and why the stories the news often covers isn't really news at all.
Watch Ratings Are Killing The News Most journalists get into the news business to tell important stories with a purpose, but they often find that the top-down quest to get the highest ratings gets in the way. So the problem with ratings is…well…ok there are a lot of problems with ratings.
Watch Can The News Be Fixed? An Interview With Disney's Bob Iger Jon sits down with former Disney CEO and Chairman Bob Iger, who oversaw ABC news, to see if there’s a better way to do TV reporting. Does news have to be so hyped up? Is there a version that can cut through the noise and still be profitable? Do all these questions make this read like a teaser for nightly news? More at 11.
Watch MUST WATCH! How TV News Is ACTIVELY Baiting You Before there was clickbait there were TV News headlines: Carefully crafted language designed to keep you tuned in and engaged. Thankfully, we have too much respect for our audience to use those manipulative tactics, but we did have a conversation about them, and you won’t believe what happened next.
Read How to Fix the Broken News Media We need to reshape the media industry to focus less on ratings and more on actual news
