Video: The News They Kept To Themselves

by Ed Driscoll | May 22, 2010 3:04 am

Recently the Washington Post announced that they were putting their weekly liberal opinion magazine Newsweek up for sale[1] after recording horrific financial and readership[2] losses. And about the same time, CNN and CBS announced that they were in talks[3] to consolidate their news operations.

What ties these two stories together? Well, to paraphrase Eason Jordan, CNN’s former chief news executive, all three outfits fell victim to The News They Kept To Themselves:

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So what does it all mean? Tune in here to see!

(Originally posted at Ed Driscoll.com[21])

Endnotes:
  1. Newsweek up for sale: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/301345.php
  2. financial and readership: http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/12/09/is-newsweek-a-brand-that-will-disappear-in-2010/
  3. CNN and CBS announced that they were in talks: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/business/media/05network.html
  4. that created the legacy media: http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2002/01/17/20020117_175502_ml.htm
  5. Koran-in-the-can moment: http://www.newsweek.com/id/51950
  6. its retraction: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156612,00.html
  7. let’s run the same cover story: http://trackacrat.com/2009/10/09/5007/
  8. .except when it isn’t: http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/02/11/assuming-dissent-is-still-patriotic-count-me-out-newsweek/
  9. Some industries deserve bankruptcy: http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/539fjevm.asp
  10. the canary in the MSM’s coalmine: http://spectator.org/archives/2010/05/18/newsweek-the-canary-in-the-lib/
  11. dictator: http://eddriscoll.com/archives/007744.php
  12. CNN: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3756437.ece
  13. hasn’t: http://www.babalublog.com/archives/007467.html
  14. propped: http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/june02/chain.html
  15. up: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2007/08/28/msnbcs-abrams-hits-cnns-amanpour-defending-islamic-fundamentalism
  16. Twas the Night Before ObamaCare at CBS: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/11/23/katie-couric-campaigns-obamacare-christmas-poem
  17. Document Dan: http://www.mediaresearch.org/profiles/rather/crisis.asp
  18. the books: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040921.asp#1
  19. Eason Jordan comes clean: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/the-news-we-kept-to-ourselves.html
  20. Ad lib a tease: http://bigjournalism.com/jboot/2010/05/09/ad-lib-a-tease-is-rick-sanchez-really-ron-burgundy-in-disguise/
  21. Ed Driscoll.com: http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/05/18/video-the-news-they-kept-to-themselves/

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