A recent segment on CNN featuring Goucher College media critic and professor David Zurawik represented the very worst in the mainstream news industry’s collective freakout over Elon Musk buying Twitter, with Professor Zurawik arguing that if the media can’t control the message received by the masses, the result is a one way ticket to the gates of hell. Yes, he really said that. Coupled with another eye-rolling segment of Brian Stelter’s show, it becomes clear that CNN is genuinely melting down over its growing irrelevance.
Jimmy and American comedian Kurt Metzger discuss what mainstream media outlets like CNN can do to gain back 1/10th the audience enjoyed by, say, Joe Rogan.
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