| Over a decade of shrinking outlets leading to ever-decreasing payrolls, and now this. The poor darlings. |
[Breitbart] The U.S. journalists who are ignoring the displacement and demotion of many U.S. professionals by millions of imported visa workers are suddenly complaining about the inflow of British journos into their top media jobs.
“UK media execs are being handed some of the biggest jobs in U.S. journalism,” said a critical article in the media-industry site, The Wrap.com. The article continued:
some question whether the [hiring] choices are what America’s democracy needs. “Everybody’s screaming about how we have a crisis in local news,” said Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at CUNY. “I say we have a crisis in national news too, at this time when fascism is at the door.”
“Right-wing Brits running the Washington Post? Stuff of nightmares,” said a tweet from Dan Froomkin, at PressWatchers.org.
The Brit arrivals include Will Lewis, the new CEO of Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post.
“It feels very much like a dive headlong into the abyss,” responded Drew Magary, a columnist for SFGate.com. “Lewis is British. NEVER trust a British media executive,” Magary wrote. |