It’s the End of the World for Controlled Corrupt Corporate Journalism & We Should All Feel Fine
Media’s Lying Bitches, VVitches & Snitches Suddenly Realize They’re Focked
“The journalism industry is in free-fall. The entire digital media ecosystem that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up in has been completely hollowed out. The newspaper industry is cratering. The Los Angeles Times just laid off 115 people, including their entire D.C. staff in an election year.” — Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz
“Burn, baby, burn.” — Los Angeles R&B DJ Nathaniel "Magnificent" Montague, 1965
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It’s been another wild week in our American Age of Apocalypse, as more and more cultural chickens and buzzards come home to roost, and media’s mostly mentally ill liberal white women continue to crank up the corporatist crazy.
There was a truly glorious example of the contrasting delusional estrogenized insanities of the controlled corrupt collectivist corporate criminal clown media this past week: A series of major publications and majorly panicked publishers fired literally hundreds of hopeless hacks — The Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, TIME, The NY Daily News, Forbes and Condé Nast (and more!)— or flat out closed their doors (Sports Illustrated), even as the pinnacle of government-approved propaganda talking points, National Public Radio, promoted a crazy (IMHO) liberal white woman to CEO and President of the failing fascist private/public non-profit syndication network.
We could detail and revel in all the firings of media people we don’t respect and in many cases outright loathe (see ya, L.A.’s Jean “Larry Elder is a ‘white supremacist’ Guerrero!) in the #FakeNews media, but so many already have that instead we’ll take a sudden hard-right turn outta the L.A. freeway and off-road it into my totally unfair and unbalanced and 100% self-acknowledged Conspiracy Theory that the Los Angeles Times is being destroyed on purpose, like how California is being destroyed on purpose, by a billionaire Chinese asset who is part of the bought-and-paid-for network of California elected and appointed officials —like gaping Gov. Gavin Newsom, who you might recall gave a king’s welcome back in November to China’s leader-for-life Xi Jinping, as if (as if!) Newsom was some sniveling cheese-sniffing toady to Nazis in Vichy France; or the thankfully dead vvicked vvitch Dianne Feinstein and her Chinese spy/handler that toiled in the Senator’s office for 20 years, who the corporate media first assured us was only demonic Dianne’s driver but later dribbled out that he was actually running the loathsome crone’s Bay Area office, AND was her liaison to the area’s Asian-American community, AND attended Chinese consulate functions for the senator…all while Feinstein was Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
California’s top politicians are all psychos, freaks, whores and traitors. But water’s wet, so let’s move on. This is about media corruption, not government corruption, though the separation line has faded to mighty thin.
Before digging into to dual citizen and big pharma billionaire Patrick “super-shady” Soon-Shiong, owner of the Los Angeles Times, let’s briefly go through the sad travails of the once-great, now shitty daily newspaper itself.
The downfall of the Los Angeles Times is remarkably similar to the destruction of the likewise once-great, now also shitty Baltimore Sun, which I’ve written about before. Like the Sun, The Los Angeles Times has been trapped in an ever-ratcheting downward nightmare of musical chairs ownership and diminishing reputation, all the way into the bowels of laughingstock.
Like the Baltimore Sun (and many other urban newspapers), originally and for decades the L.A. Times was owned by a wealthy local: First the Otis family, then, in a shift through marriage, the Chandler family. Seeking to expand their national footprint, the Otis family formed the Times-Mirror Company in the late 19th Century, which the Chandler family then put into overdrive in the 20th, either launching or acquiring many magazines and newspapers, including Popular Science, Sporting News, Field & Stream, Newsday, The Denver Post, The Dallas Times-Herald, and many more, including the tragic Baltimore Sun.
In 2000, the massive media mergers and acquisitions started, just in time for a minimal number of publishing conglomerates to get their stories straight beforehand as America lurched into the 21st Century with the wild, still-uncertain 2000 Bush/Gore election/disaster and then 9/11 and The War on Terror™, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.
Anyway, after the last competent Chandler croaked, the Times-Mirror Company got acquired by Chicago’s Tribune Company in 2000, then after seven years of cutbacks and controversies and shrinking revenue, the Tribune Company got sold to real estate entrepreneur Sam Zell, who everybody said was only in it for the land and corporate buildings, then kinda proved it when he put a former radio executive and disc jockey with no newspaper experience, Randy Michaels, in charge.
That went pretty much as you might’ve expected, with Michaels proving to be a bro’s bro but not much else. He oversaw the layoffs of more than 4,200 newspaper and magazine employees while also giving large bonuses to the male executives and hosting costly beer-and-poker parties and “creat(ing) a hostile workplace and culture promoting sexual harassment and debasement, with executives openly discussing the ‘sexual suitability’ of employees in the office,” per the late great New York Times media reporter David Carr, back in the day when the Times still meant something besides treason and normalizing the sexualization of children.
Zell’s ownership of the Tribune Company was a disaster for everybody, including Zell, who ended up having to pay $200 million to settle allegations of fraud for alleged "unlawful" dividends and fraudulent transfers as part of the acquisition of Tribune.
But Zell’s ownership at least provided some good laughs to us media observers, when for a short period he changed the name of Tribune to “Tronc” (“Tribune online content”), one of the clumsiest and dumbest “modern” corporate brand name switchups in history, right up there with the marketing/advertising/web consultancy marchFIRST, the massive $500 million aggregate of a bunch of smaller agencies which formed in March, 2000, when I was Southeast Editor of Adweek and I told everybody at the mag (now rag) it was the most idiotic brand identity ever, and if the logic-defying lower-case/UPPER CASE name was what the corporate leadership at a marketing conglomerate thought was a good idea, they were idiots and the thing was doomed. marchFIRST declared bankruptcy in April, 2001, and a month later was liquidated.
I’m digressing, digressing, sorry, sorry, but I’m just trying to give you a sense of how stupid these so-called “Masters of the Universe” in media are, and have been for decades. But we’re not close to done with the L.A. Times, so to “circle back”….
The Tribune’s “Tronc” identity lasted exactly two ridiculous years, from June 2016 to June 2018, before changing its name back to Tribune Publishing. Then Tribune started selling off its assets, including the L.A. Times and the even more pathetic San Diego Union-Tribune (I was there; I saw), to Chinese-American billionaire biotech investor Patrick Soon-Shiong.
So who is Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner and executive chairman of the Los Angeles Times? He’s a 71-year old guy who looks shades younger, is worth $5.4 billion, according to Forbes, but my guess is a lot more; Forbes has also called him “the richest oncologist in the world.” He made serious bank after developing the drug Abraxane, which received Food and Drug Administration approval for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, lung cancer and pancreatic cancer, and then selling it for $9.1 billion. Cancer has been very very good for a few very very wealthy people in the world.
Patrick Soon-Shiong is a dual citizen of the United States of America and South Africa, where he was born to Chinese immigrant parents who fled China during Japan’s occupation in WW2. He came to the USA in 1984, and became an American citizen some time after, though via the compromised search engines I can’t find exactly when.
As a dual citizen, how well is Patrick Soon-Shion holding up his American side of the bargain? Not so hot, if you ask me. Treasonous, in fact, or at least half-treasonous due to his dual citizenship. In the same way that it appears Joe Biden couldn’t be doing a worse job destroying the country if he tried, so too could you say about Patrick Soon-Shiong’s stewardship of the L.A. Times (and the San Diego Tribune, until July of this year, when he unloaded that dying rag to the worst-of-the-worst, the V.C. vultures at Alden Capital — "one of the most ruthless corporate strip-miners seemingly intent on destroying local journalism.”).
Since Patrick Soon-Shiong took over the Los Angeles Times, it has crapped out some of the most wildly divisive and unhinged headlines in corporate media, which, considering how things have been going since President Orange went down that escalator, is really saying something. ’Twas the LATimes that gave us black gubernatorial candidate “Larry Elder is the face of white supremacy,” and how “mocking anti-vaxxers deaths from Covid is ghoulish but necessary,” among other no doubt China-pleasing, chaos inducing, Civil War-promoting propaganda.
Moreover, according to multiple reports, Patrick Soon-Shion placed his 20-something “activist” daughter Nika Soon-Shiong as the paper’s unofficial Ombudsman, criticizing and second-guessing the paper’s reporters and editors. According to Politico, the abrasive Ms. Soon-Shiong forced herself into staff meetings and berated them about the paper’s failures in covering race, as well as how it could and should become more inclusive in hiring. She suggested the paper avoid using the word “looting” when covering the unrest over police brutality, compelling editorial to reluctantly tweak its style guidelines.
Shortly after Nika Soon-Shiong inserted herself into the newspaper’s editorial management, she received an appointment to serve as a West Hollywood Public Safety Commissioner, which advises city government on public safety reforms. According to Politico, Times journalists said that on multiple uncomfortable occasions she pitched inappropriate stories about the commission’s work and complained about the paper’s headlines and coverage when they did cover it.
As West Hollywood’s Public Safety Commissioner, Nika Soon-Shiong successfully fought to “defund the police,” pushing an aggressive move to significantly reduce the funding for the LA County Sheriff’s Department. According to Politico, Ms. Soon-Shiong leaned on an editor at the paper’s Metro desk to spike coverage of the budget cuts, even as it was being widely covered by other Los Angeles news outlets.
The Politico story about this bullshit anti-American family just goes on and on and on, including a super-shady section about then-candidate, now L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and the Soon-Shiong’s manufacturing of a Covid vaccine designed specifically for Africa. Then there’s Bass’s scheme to combat homelessness via an abandoned building that housed the old St. Vincent Medical Center — owned by the Soon-Shiong family. It just goes on and on; read the Politco piece, it’s good investigative reporting from Dan Lippman, Chris Cadelago and Max Tani. Hollywood Reporter, believe it or not, also had an intriguing investigative piece about the Soon-Shiong shit show, by Jason McGahan.
So it’s MY OPINION that the Soon-Shiong clan are communist spies, a fifth column inside the fourth estate, complete and total cancers on America and American journalism and the healthcare/medical industry. The sooner all of them are driven out of the country — Nika Soon-Shiong’s already gone, she fled to the U.K. and Oxford University — with torches and pitchforks, the better off we’ll all be. All that money, yet these people are less than worthless.
But the main point of today’s never-to-be-a-TED-talk was intended to take a quick gander at National Public Radio’s truly terrible and almost surely insane (IMHO) new leader, KATHERINE MAHER, because she is all but literally the quintessential poster child for the nutcase, screw-loose radical leftist white woman who has destroyed the journalism industry.
Remarkably, even as there were layoffs after layoffs after layoffs this week, NPR announced they’d hired Ms. MAHER as its new CEO/President, even though she is the perfect personification of every single stupid and terrible and unprofessional element of the #FakeNews ecosystem.
Like Nika Soon-Shiong, KATHERINE MAHER is an ideologue and True Believer, not a reporter. As even NPR’s own Mockingbird moron media “reporter” and garbage-tier little bitch David Folkinflik admits, “KATHERINE MAHER has never worked directly in journalism or at a news organization.”
What the 40-year old liberal white woman has done, however, is leave a pretty impressive virtual paper trail of her hyper-partisan political worldview, even as she’s tried to erase the most extremely partisan of her unsound social media thoughts (“Trump is a racist”) since getting the gig.
As tracked down by The New York Post, Maher’s spent a lot of time on Xwitter focused on divisive race-smearing, rooted in a bizarre self-hatred she then extrapolates over everybody else. Y’see, since KATHERINE MAHER considers herself an innate racist, she thinks all other white people are too!
“I grew up feeling superior (hah, how white of me) because I was from New England,” she tweeted. “I know that hysteric white woman voice. I was taught to do it. I’ve done it. It’s a disturbing recognition. That is whiteness.”
That’s your whiteness, you insufferable narcissistic skin tag. Don’t drag me into your pathological weakness. Don’t drag all America into it. You’re a vain, conceited, self-absorbed weirdo who can’t see past her own navel and thinks whatever you think and feel can be extended to everybody else. THAT’S CRAZY. YOU’RE CRAZY.
This shameless vvitch would fit right in the socialist star chamber with Ms. Soon-Shiong, since Ms. MAHER is also one of those nutty-as-a-fruitcake elitists who defended blacks looting L.A. because 100 years ago slavery was bad: “It’s hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people’s ancestors as private property.”
First of all: Not MY ancestors, you reprehensible cretin. No Sieberts or Nordhausens ever owned slaves. I was raised by Sieberts and Nordhausens to respect everybody, until an individual showed you reason to do otherwise. Which is why I’m treating you with contempt.
Before landing the NPR gig for which she is completely unqualified professionally, KATHERINE MAHER held a bunch of corporate executive roles in a variety of finance industries and NGOs, which I guess make her qualified in the NPR role from the W.E.F.’s globalist corruption and lockstep messaging perspective. She’s worked for the proven launderers of drug cartels (and Jeffrey Epstein!) HSBC; the pedophiles at UNICEF; and the World Bank, which a guy from my old church in D.C. used to work for until he claimed that he’d discovered some of people there were literally raping/killing/eating children and it drove him insane and he later killed himself (or “killed himself”) in New York City. Maybe he was delusional.
Finally, and most recently, Ms. MAHER was chief executive officer of Wikipedo…excuse me, the Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, which pretty much everybody who’s anybody knows is CIA, et al. So that makes KATHERINE MAHER a spook. In my opinion.
But that’s okay in Law of Inversion Land, because NPR isn’t about journalism anymore, it’s about propaganda and protecting the occupying regime, which is hell-bent on destroying America from within. That requires 24/7 demoralizing and dishonest messaging to assault the synapses of the citizenry.
NPR is a fascist organization by definition, a public/private partnership of corporate and government, Federally approved “news,” the same way the despicable Ad Council is a fascist organization that is similarly run by a crazy liberal white woman, LISA SHERMAN, an unmarried and childless lesbian who hates you and has been waging war on America’s children since at least 2020 by barfing out societally corruptive campaigns pushing transgenderism, childhood mRNA vaccinations and elementary school masking long after it was proven completely scientifically unnecessary and debilitative for both health and development reasons.
The half-human LISA SHERMANs of the world and the KATHERINE MAHERs and the NIKA SOON-SHIONGs and her god-damned father (delivered as a bloodline curse, not a blasphemous epithet), should all be shunned. They are not worthy. They are not deserving. They are the scum of the earth. They are all part of the club that’s really a cult that we’re not part of, at least I’m not.
None of these people deserve a modicum of respect, they all should be dragged out into the light, if not the street, for a tar-and-feathering (metaphorically!). I’m not sure if we’re going to see justice for the worst of the worst or not, but we’re certainly going to see the so-called “elite” cut loose their stupid, worthless, corrupt media minions who’ve lingered past their useful idiot status. Watching these less-than-zero fascist fuckers burn on the bonfire of their venal vanities is gonna be glorious. A Wicker Man inversion. Burn, baby, burn!
That was a long, long length of red-hot coals, over each one of which you dragged Ms. Maher. Thanks.
Great post! I love The Trammps.
Related - have you seen Chris Bray’s requiem for the LA Times? The mighty certainly have fallen.
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/beat-down