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Media Winners & Losers

MEDIA WINNERS:
Oprah Winfrey, David Zaslav,
Joe Rogan

Three major media figures made it onto the annual Time 100 Most Influential People list this year.

Viral podcaster Joe Rogan, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO and President David Zaslav, and media mogul Oprah Winfrey all made the list of 100 most influential as the only 2022 honorees who are primarily in the media business.

Rogan is in the “Leaders” category of the list, in between Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China Sun Chunlan, and President of the United States Joe Biden, along with other major figures like Russian President Vladimir Putin, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Both Oprah and Zaslav are under the Titans heading on the list, alongside Apple CEO Tim Cook, actress Michelle Yeoh, and matriarch of the Kardashian marketing empire Kris Jenner.

New York Times columnist and podcaster Kara Swisher wrote about podcast "pioneer" Rogan, Chip and Joanna Gaines described their boss Zaslave as "the titan next door," and former First Lady Michelle Obama wrote that Oprah connecting with something "validates" it, and "no matter where you go, everyone knows her name."

Being primarily a media figure isn't a big plus in popular opinion these days. So in the rarefied air of the Most Influential list, these three stand out even more.

MEDIA LOSER:
The Washington Post

The Washington Post falsely stated on Monday George Floyd died two years ago this week after he was “shot and killed” while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department.

The paper tweeted the rewrite of history late Monday evening but it was taken down after a swift, loud reaction.

“On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was shot and killed in police custody,” the tweet read. “His death sparked outrage, wide scale protests and calls to change policing. Two years later, what has — or hasn’t changed?”

Floyd was not shot, but was instead murdered by former former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin kneeling on his neck until he died.

Within minutes of deleting the initial tweet, the paper did share another post about Floyd.

The paper vaguely noted, “We’ve deleted a previous tweet for this form that included language that was changed after publish.”

It wasn't just in the tweet, however, the error was on the paper's website as well.

That's not a minor error or oversight. The murder of George Floyd is one of the most significant stories of the last 10 years, with enormous impact on American society.

It's the kind of thing you are supposed to get right and, as a member of the press, you should recognize as wrong before it ever hits the public.

The A-Block

"Breathtaking"

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and his crew tore into Georgia Republican Senate candidate David Perdue over a “breathtaking” and “blatantly racist” attack on Democratic rival Stacey Abrams.

On Wednesday morning’s edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski played Abrams’ comments to the Gwinnett Democats’ Bluetopia Gala, during which she said “I am tired of hearing about being the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live,” and went on to add “Let me contextualize. When you’re No. 48 for mental health, when we’re No. 1 for maternal mortality when you have an incarceration rate that is on the rise and wages are on the decline, then you are not the No. 1 place to live.”

Brzezinski then played a clip of comments that Perdue made on the John Fredericks Show in response to Abrams, including him saying, "She is demeaning her own race when it comes to that."

A stunned Scarborough told his colleague Willie Geist “Willie, I don’t know where to start with that. I mean, no endorsement from low energy Don is going to erase all the things that happened there.”

“He got replacement theory in there. He got the fascist refrain of 'go back to where you came from' in there," said Scarborough. "This is not a dog whistle. This is like a foghorn blaring."


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Must See Clip

‘F*** the War!’ 

Despite Russia’s continuous efforts to thwart political dissidents and protests against the invasion of Ukraine, concertgoers in St. Petersburg joined together and gave a vocal condemnation of the war.

Lyubov Sobol, a Russian opposition politician and ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, posted footage on social media showing hundreds of people chanting “f*ck the war!” Reports indicate that the protest happened on Friday at the A2 Green Concert venue during a show from the Russian rock band, Kis-Kis.

It's a pretty awesome moment.

Links We Like

Left-Wing Prosecutors Prepare Plan B on Roe
- The Editors, National Review
The “Ellen DeGeneres Show” Is Ending, Leaving Behind Complicated Legacy
- Krystie Lee Yandoli, Buzzfeed
The Real Reason Why The Disinformation Governance Board Got Cancelled
- Terry Jones, TIPP Insights
America's Free Speech Anger Pivots From Big Tech to Big Media
- Sara Fischer, Axios
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