Here's an extremely illuminating episode on how liberal corporate media works.
When @krystalball and @esaagar left @thehill's "Rising," the Hill struggled to find a heterodox, anti-establishment voice equally popular with its audience. They finally found her: @KimIversenShow.
When @krystalball and @esaagar left @thehill's "Rising," the Hill struggled to find a heterodox, anti-establishment voice equally popular with its audience. They finally found her: @KimIversenShow.
Kim became extremely popular among Rising viewers. She developed a loyal audience size vastly larger than what 95% of employees of large liberal media corporations have. That's because she does what they won't: questions rather than slavishly parrots official orthodoxy.
So -- as happens whenever an independent journalist finds success while not part of their clique, one they can't control -- liberal tabloids like @TheDailyBeast began running jealous, envious hit pieces in her with their standard insults of expulsion.
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Yesterday, Kim announced she had left Rising, in part because they wouldn't let her interview Dr. Fauci. She's been very skeptical about COVID orthodoxies.
I don't know if Fauci or Hill management banned it, but she did the only respectable thing: quit.
I don't know if Fauci or Hill management banned it, but she did the only respectable thing: quit.
Liberal employees of media corporates hate nothing more than independent voices who have a large, trusting audience even while refusing to submit to their corporate constraints. They are so petty and envious, it's what drives them craziest. This is who they hate most: eg, Rogan.
A prototypical sad sack, envy-driven loser for these media corporations - his name is @justinbaragona - immediately published a hit piece on Kim again, with all their go-to insults for anyone not in line: "conspiracy theorist," Russian propagandist, etc.
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But note what happened. Kim's responses to this tabloid's hit piece was widely circulated by her loyal following. But the Daily Beast has so little audience and this enforcer of liberal pieties, @justinbaragona, has none, so virtually nobody even noticed the shit they published.
I can't stress enough how important this dynamic is to their behavior. These liberal media corporations know the public hates them and they have no following. All they have left is uniting on social media to attack those they resent and envy. That's it.
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This is corporate liberal journalism, in one tweet:
I should add that the interview of Fauci which Rising did is well worth watching. Both @bungarsargon and @robbysoave subjected him to questions far more skeptical and adversarial than he's faced in most other outlets. But Kim's critiques are different:
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