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Soledad O'Brien: This times 1 million. (Original Post) Cha Aug 2019 OP
What is Soledad doing these days? targetpractice Aug 2019 #1
I don't even have a tv.. but when Cha Aug 2019 #2
Didn't she have a CNN morning show and get fired cuz she didn't 'toe the line'? bobbieinok Aug 2019 #3
I hadn't heard that. Cha Aug 2019 #4
I remember watching her a few times in the morning, and then she was gone. bobbieinok Aug 2019 #14
Mahalo! Cha Aug 2019 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author SnowCritter Aug 2019 #45
She has her own media compant now csziggy Aug 2019 #7
Thanks for that info, csziggy! Cha Aug 2019 #43
She has her own production company and host a talk show on A&E. Fla Dem Aug 2019 #44
That's good to know.. Thank you, Cha Sep 2019 #57
KR NT ProudProgressiveNow Aug 2019 #5
Thank you, PPN! Cha Aug 2019 #9
It is a plague that is everywhere Soph0571 Aug 2019 #6
Thank you for sharing that, Soph! Cha Aug 2019 #11
"Good people on both sides "🖕🏿 Marcuse Aug 2019 #37
Yep. That's like feeling compelled to include the Flat Earth Society to a panel from NASA. calimary Aug 2019 #47
Make that x 2 million. TryLogic Aug 2019 #8
Yes! I was thinking.. Cha Aug 2019 #13
If the press followed that goal .... CatMor Aug 2019 #10
Yes, Good on Matthew Dowd! I haven't Cha Aug 2019 #17
Thank you Cha for the info on Matthew Dowd ..... CatMor Aug 2019 #23
I've done before with certain names.. Cha Aug 2019 #25
Me too lol grantcart Aug 2019 #36
Heh, grant! Cha Aug 2019 #42
MSM stenographers get on my last damn nerve uponit7771 Aug 2019 #12
I stopped all m$media in November Cha Aug 2019 #20
I've heard that before. Igel Aug 2019 #16
Thank you for your post, Igel! Cha Aug 2019 #29
Thank You for sharing ...k and r Stuart G Aug 2019 #18
Thank you for helping, Stuart! Cha Aug 2019 #31
Don't give righty nuthobs a platform to spew lies Pepsidog Aug 2019 #19
Yeah, makes the m$m look stupid, too. Cha Aug 2019 #34
Balance has been the tool by which liars propagate their wares. Caliman73 Aug 2019 #21
It's been slowing building up and destroying Cha Aug 2019 #56
Yes it has been. Caliman73 Sep 2019 #58
Let me suggest SayItLoud Aug 2019 #22
Brilliant suggestion, SayItLoud! Cha Sep 2019 #62
And yet...constant calls for the Fairness Doctrine to be restored. MadDAsHell Aug 2019 #24
+1000! mcar Aug 2019 #26
Grateful for the Brilliant sanity and NON Cha Aug 2019 #27
K&R Scurrilous Aug 2019 #28
... Cha Aug 2019 #41
K&R. dchill Aug 2019 #30
Thank you, dchill! Cha Aug 2019 #52
K&R! Thanks for posting this, Cha! highplainsdem Aug 2019 #32
Thank you for kicking for Truth, highplainsdem! Cha Aug 2019 #33
a cartoon reply to the thread steventh Aug 2019 #35
Exactly, steventh.. Thank you! Cha Aug 2019 #54
Twitter reply : Rhiannon12866 Aug 2019 #38
Perfect, Rhiannon.. Cha Aug 2019 #55
Soledad O'Brien is on our local NBC affiliate every Sunday morning on "Matter of Fact" Stinky The Clown Aug 2019 #39
Good to know.. she seems Fearless! Cha Sep 2019 #59
K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 spanone Aug 2019 #40
Thank You, spanone! Cha Sep 2019 #60
But where will I get the mind numbing propaganda BootinUp Aug 2019 #46
I hear faux is pretty good Cha Sep 2019 #61
This is the fact! defacto7 Aug 2019 #48
k & r flamingdem Aug 2019 #49
K&R n/t dajoki Aug 2019 #50
K & R & Retweeted! SunSeeker Aug 2019 #51
Amen! Catch2.2 Aug 2019 #53
Where did trend start? Crossfire? aikoaiko Sep 2019 #63

targetpractice

(4,919 posts)
1. What is Soledad doing these days?
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 05:28 PM
Aug 2019

I follow her on Twitter, and she seems to be a very vocal (and welcome) critic of other "journalists" these days. I think she's freelancing and allowed to speak her mind by not being affiliated with any media outlet.

Cha

(295,926 posts)
2. I don't even have a tv.. but when
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 05:32 PM
Aug 2019

I see her on twitter I stop to read it.. and this is the very heart of the matter from Matthew Dowd.

Thank you, targetpractice

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
14. I remember watching her a few times in the morning, and then she was gone.
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 06:18 PM
Aug 2019

IIRC she did an important show on MLK.'s assassination. And one on the history of blacks participating in the Olympics.

Response to bobbieinok (Reply #3)

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
7. She has her own media compant now
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 05:52 PM
Aug 2019
Starfish Media Group

In June 2013, O'Brien formed the production and distribution company, Starfish Media Group.[29][30] Starfish Media Group signed a deal to produce a series of hour-long documentary specials for Al Jazeera America.[31]

In September 2016, O'Brien became a host of the Hearst Television show, Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, which is produced by Starfish Media Group; in addition to its broadcast availability, it is carried by A&E on Sunday mornings (a network Hearst partly owns).[32]

Other work

From 2013 to 2016, O'Brien was moderator of National Geographic Bee, replacing Alex Trebek who moderated for 25-plus years.[33]

In 2014, O'Brien co-taught a Harvard University Graduate School of Education class with Professor Joe Blatt on "Advancing the Public Understanding of Education."[24]

On May 1, 2016, O'Brien hosted PBS NewsHour Weekend, filling in for Alison Stewart.[citation needed]

On January 12, 2016, O'Brien appeared on PBS's TV genealogy program, Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Finding Your Roots. The focus was on O'Brien's Irish ancestry.

In 2016, O'Brien presented the 'I Am Latino in America' tour, with nationwide stops across the United States. The tour was streamed live globally on MOSH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad_O%27Brien#Starfish_Media_Group

Fla Dem

(23,352 posts)
44. She has her own production company and host a talk show on A&E.
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 09:40 AM
Aug 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad_O'Brien

Starfish Media Group
In June 2013, O'Brien formed the production and distribution company, Starfish Media Group.[29][30] Starfish Media Group signed a deal to produce a series of hour-long documentary specials for Al Jazeera America.[31]

In September 2016, O'Brien became a host of the Hearst Television show, Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, which is produced by Starfish Media Group; in addition to its broadcast availability, it is carried by A&E on Sunday mornings (a network Hearst partly owns).[32]

Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
6. It is a plague that is everywhere
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 05:49 PM
Aug 2019

I put something up a while ago about a black author and journalist who talked about this. She is invited on as an anti-racist onto a programme and so they have a racist on for balance...WTF? There is no balance there... she walked. Swore never to do it again.
K&R

Cha

(295,926 posts)
11. Thank you for sharing that, Soph!
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 06:09 PM
Aug 2019

It is EVERYWHERE. And, this from Matthew Down should be posted in EVERY newsroom and newspaper.

calimary

(80,700 posts)
47. Yep. That's like feeling compelled to include the Flat Earth Society to a panel from NASA.
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 10:43 AM
Aug 2019

Oh both sides! Both SIIIIIIIIIIDES!

NO!!!! Sometimes you do NOT need different sides to examine an issue. Especially when one side is complete bullshit.

There’s only room for ONE side: the TRUTH.

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
10. If the press followed that goal ....
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 06:07 PM
Aug 2019

I doubt trump would have made it to the White House. I stopped watching TV news and pundits during the 2016 campaign because of the ridiculous both sides policies and having someone like Santorum or McEnany spewing their lies. Good for Matthew Dowd.

Cha

(295,926 posts)
17. Yes, Good on Matthew Dowd! I haven't
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 06:49 PM
Aug 2019

watched and read any m$$$media since November 2002.. but I know from DU that it's only exponentially worse now.

I looked up Dowd's twitter page to see who he is..

Proud Pop, Proud Independent, Chief Political Analyst, ABC News; Founder: https://countryover.party , Author, A New Way: Embracing the Paradox.

https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Mahalo, CatMor!

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
23. Thank you Cha for the info on Matthew Dowd .....
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 07:24 PM
Aug 2019

when I first read the OP I thought it said Maureen Dowd and then realized it couldn't be her writing something so intelligent and fair.

Cha

(295,926 posts)
25. I've done before with certain names..
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 07:34 PM
Aug 2019

but I had seen Matthew Dowd's name before(only I couldn't place him).. so I immediately thought he was brilliant!

Cha

(295,926 posts)
20. I stopped all m$media in November
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 07:06 PM
Aug 2019

2002 and I know from DU they've only gotten exponentially worse.. so yeah.. I can relate!

Mahalo, uponit!

Igel

(35,197 posts)
16. I've heard that before.
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 06:40 PM
Aug 2019

"The goal of this ministry is to preach the truth, not be impartial to both sides."

For some, "balance = equal time."

For some, "balance = impartial." An equal effort to hear both sides before being judgmental.

Didn't like it back in the '80s, don't like it 30 years after.

Esp. when in the '80s it was clearly a matter of faith, "evidence of things not seen", while in the '10s it's more a matter of supposed veridicality, "my truth" instead of "the truth" with a push for the two to necessarily be identical: "My truth must be the truth, your truth? Well, sod off."

Cha

(295,926 posts)
29. Thank you for your post, Igel!
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 07:54 PM
Aug 2019

The US media should shun the lies.. this is what got us where we are.

Caliman73

(11,694 posts)
21. Balance has been the tool by which liars propagate their wares.
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 07:21 PM
Aug 2019

There was a time when the news was "mainstream" and everyone basically got the same story so that people from the different perspectives could discuss the interpretation, but since the emergence of a consolidated right wing media ecosystem, a whole segment of the population either hears nothing or hears significant spin about the shared reality. Case in point, Donald Trump. How anyone can believe that he has done anything good for the country is beyond me but if you are hearing what a terrific job he is doing and how the "liberal media" and "fake news" is trying to tear him down, then you are pretty much inoculated from getting any actual facts and trusting them.

There is always a concern of this happening from the left, but there is NOTHING like a consolidated media ecosystem on the left to sustain it. We have mainstream/corporate media, independent media, left leaning and left wing media (tiny) and the right wing media system consisting of Fox News, Sinclair Broadcasting, and other affiliate sources like Breitbart, NewsMax, Drudge, etc... not to mention the thousands of radio stations that send out Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, and their ilk.

Then they want "balance". It is bull crap. They want total media dominance.

Cha

(295,926 posts)
56. It's been slowing building up and destroying
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 08:25 PM
Aug 2019

our country for a long time and has reached its crescendo with the psycho in power.

Caliman73

(11,694 posts)
58. Yes it has been.
Sun Sep 1, 2019, 12:59 PM
Sep 2019

It has been a long project since the Nixon administration with Roger Ailes, Pat Buchanan, Cheney and Rumsfeld, and other creeps who have been around in our politics for far too long.

SayItLoud

(1,696 posts)
22. Let me suggest
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 07:22 PM
Aug 2019

That the press NOT print anything that tRUMP says UNTIL it is vetted for truth. That might fix is orange ass or the suckers who suck up to him. Conway, Miller, the lot....Just sayin...
What do you all think?

 

MadDAsHell

(2,067 posts)
24. And yet...constant calls for the Fairness Doctrine to be restored.
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 07:24 PM
Aug 2019

Last edited Fri Aug 30, 2019, 08:22 PM - Edit history (1)

Have we come 180 on this issue?

Cha

(295,926 posts)
27. Grateful for the Brilliant sanity and NON
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 07:38 PM
Aug 2019

gas lighting of those like Matthew Dowd, mcar!

Thank You!

Stinky The Clown

(67,697 posts)
39. Soledad O'Brien is on our local NBC affiliate every Sunday morning on "Matter of Fact"
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 10:56 PM
Aug 2019

It is a syndicated show that follows MTP here.

BootinUp

(46,928 posts)
46. But where will I get the mind numbing propaganda
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 10:17 AM
Aug 2019

from. I’m just so fucking addicted to it, 24/7 I leave it on, GOT to HAVE it!


/sarcasm

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
48. This is the fact!
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 11:18 AM
Aug 2019

Discussion of opposing positions within the boundaries of fact is good. What we have now or what it has morphed into is fact versus the illusion of fact. In logic there is neither premice nor resolution when arguing factual reality against dataless fantacy. It simply becomes a battle of wills where both sides stalemate. The only way to reach a factual conclusion is to eliminate the illusion. There's nothing to balance.

aikoaiko

(34,127 posts)
63. Where did trend start? Crossfire?
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 11:52 PM
Sep 2019


By this trend, I mean having people both sides of the liberal-conservative continuum on newsy talk shows who would defend their side regardless of facts.

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