About this episode

Oliver Darcy joins Jon Favreau to discuss the current state of journalism and media consolidation, including the challenges faced by journalists at major news organizations.

What exactly is happening inside CBS News, and how much is Bari Weiss to blame? How are journalists at CNN feeling about becoming the Ellisons' next target? And what has corporate consolidation done to the media? Oliver Darcy, founder and writer of Status and former senior media reporter for CNN, joins Offline to break it all down. He and Jon also discuss Comcast's announcement that it may spin off NBC, what's going on at Jeff Bezos's Washington Post, and why Oliver has taken his reporting independent. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast, episode title, and episode date.

People in this episode

Host: Jon Favreau

Guest: Oliver Darcy

Topics covered

• media consolidation
• journalism
• corporate influence
• CBS News
• CNN
• independent reporting

Keywords

• Bari Weiss
• Oliver Darcy
• CBS News
• CNN
• media consolidation
• journalism
• Jeff Bezos
• Washington Post

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CBS News, CNN, Comcast, NBC, Jeff Bezos's Washington Post, Status

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