Soledad O'Brien: This times 1 million.

[Cha]

Link to tweet

[targetpractice]

1. What is Soledad doing these days?

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]

2. I don't even have a tv.. but when

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]

3. Didn't she have a CNN morning show and get fired cuz she didn't 'toe the line'?

[Cha]

4. I hadn't heard that.

Thanks, bobbieinok

[bobbieinok]

14. I remember watching her a few times in the morning, and then she was gone.

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

[Cha]

15. Mahalo!

[csziggy]

7. She has her own media compant now

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

[Cha]

43. Thanks for that info, csziggy!

[Fla Dem]

44. She has her own production company and host a talk show on A&E.

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]

[Cha]

57. That's good to know.. Thank you,

Fla Dem

[ProudProgressiveNow]

5. KR NT

[Cha]

9. Thank you, PPN!

[Soph0571]

6. It is a plague that is everywhere

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]

11. Thank you for sharing that, Soph!

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

[Marcuse]

37. "Good people on both sides "🖕🏿

[calimary]

47. Yep. That's like feeling compelled to include the Flat Earth Society to a panel from NASA.

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.

[TryLogic]

8. Make that x 2 million.

[Cha]

13. Yes! I was thinking..

XMILLIONS!!

[CatMor]

10. If the press followed that goal ....

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]

17. Yes, Good on Matthew Dowd! I haven't

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]

23. Thank you Cha for the info on Matthew Dowd .....

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]

25. I've done before with certain names..

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

[grantcart]

36. Me too lol

[Cha]

42. Heh, grant!

Mahalo!

[uponit7771]

12. MSM stenographers get on my last damn nerve

[Cha]

20. I stopped all m$media in November

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

Mahalo, uponit!

[Igel]

16. I've heard that before.

"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]

29. Thank you for your post, Igel!

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

[Stuart G]

18. Thank You for sharing ...k and r

[Cha]

31. Thank you for helping, Stuart!

[Pepsidog]

19. Don't give righty nuthobs a platform to spew lies

[Cha]

34. Yeah, makes the m$m look stupid, too.

Mahalo, Pepsidog!

[Caliman73]

21. Balance has been the tool by which liars propagate their wares.

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]

56. It's been slowing building up and destroying

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

[Caliman73]

58. Yes it has been.

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]

22. Let me suggest

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?

[Cha]

62. Brilliant suggestion, SayItLoud!

[MadDAsHell]

24. And yet...constant calls for the Fairness Doctrine to be restored.

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Have we come 180 on this issue?

[mcar]

26. +1000!

[Cha]

27. Grateful for the Brilliant sanity and NON

gas lighting of those like Matthew Dowd, mcar!

Thank You!

[Scurrilous]

28. K&R

[Cha]

41. ...

TRUTH!!!

Mahalo, Scurrilous!

[dchill]

30. K&R.

[Cha]

52. Thank you, dchill!

[highplainsdem]

32. K&R! Thanks for posting this, Cha!

[Cha]

33. Thank you for kicking for Truth, highplainsdem!

[steventh]

35. a cartoon reply to the thread

[Cha]

54. Exactly, steventh.. Thank you!

[Rhiannon12866]

38. Twitter reply :

Link to tweet

[Cha]

55. Perfect, Rhiannon..

Thank You!

[Stinky The Clown]

39. Soledad O'Brien is on our local NBC affiliate every Sunday morning on "Matter of Fact"

It is a syndicated show that follows MTP here.

[Cha]

59. Good to know.. she seems Fearless!

[spanone]

40. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[Cha]

60. Thank You, spanone!

[BootinUp]

46. But where will I get the mind numbing propaganda

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


/sarcasm

[Cha]

61. I hear faux is pretty good

at doing the thinking for its viewers.

[defacto7]

48. This is the fact!

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.

[flamingdem]

49. k & r

Hooray Soledad!

[dajoki]

50. K&R n/t

[SunSeeker]

51. K & R & Retweeted!

[Catch2.2]

53. Amen!

[aikoaiko]

63. Where did trend start? Crossfire?

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.