MacFarlane goes Meidas (f*ck CBS)

[DoBW]

BREAKING: Award-winning journalist Scott MacFarlane is joining MeidasTouch as our Chief Washington Correspondent.

This is a major expansion of our enterprise and investigative reporting in D.C.

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-03-23T15:04:34.676Z

[SuzyandPuffpuff]

1. Good job

Cudos one and ALL

[2naSalit]

2. Good news!

Right on Meidas Touch!

[Klarkashton]

3. Bari may be out of her job pretty soon.

That was a huge mistake.

[Wiz Imp]

5. Nope. She was hired into that position explicitly to destroy CBS News

And she's doing an impeccable job of it.

[GiqueCee]

7. I've never seen...

... a president insinuate himself into the affairs of a private enterprise like Trump has. It just wasn't done. Y'know, the 1st Amendment, and antiquated concepts like that. But then, what did Dubya say about the Constitution? "It's just a piece of paper!"
God bless the Republican Party! Or is it God DAMN the Republican Party? Yeah, that tracks.

[ABC123Easy]

9. Inside knowledge?

Rumors? Inside stories?

Your post has me salivating to see her tossed out on her ass.

[spanone]

4. K&R

[aggiesal]

6. (f*ck See BS) ...

There. I fixed it.

[City Lights]

8. This is great!!!

Pound sand, CBS!

[Bluetus]

10. The legacy media is finished. They just don't know it yet.

There is still money in entertainment, but the days of providing news and shaping national opinion are waning.

It won't disappear completely for a few more decades, just as we have a few newspapers till doing news. But people are moving to other sources for information. Meidas is positioning to be a prominent source as this evolution continues.

They have over 6 million subscribers on Youtube. They are approaching a million on Substack, plus some amount across the podcast channels. I don't know how this equated to a DAILY reach, but it is certainly ALREADY on a scale similar to the legacy teevee networks.

A key point is that, in the new media universe, content and distribution are two different things. In the legacy days, Walter Cronkite was the content and he was on one channel. In this new media world, the content reaches audiences through many different distribution paths. People like Larry Ellison are still thinking in legacy terms -- to own the network. But the networks are becoming less valuable.

[Joinfortmill]

11. Yup. TickTock you Corporate F*cks.