MTV News Shut Down As Paramount Global Cuts 25% of Its Staff (npr.org) 79
Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Showtime, announced today that it is laying off some 25% of its staff and shutting down MTV News. NPR reports: In addition to reports of a soft ad market, Paramount Global is doing considerable restructuring. Earlier this year, Showtime merged with MTV Entertainment Studios. In an email to staff obtained by NPR, Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks, explained the decision-making behind the cuts. While touting the "incredible track record of hits" such as Yellowstone, South Park, and Yellowjackets, McCarthy wrote, "despite this success in streaming, we continue to feel pressure from broader economic headwinds like many of our peers. To address this, our senior leaders in coordination with HR have been working together over the past few months to determine the optimal organization for the current and future needs of our business."
"This is a very sad day for a lot of friends and colleagues," wrote MTV News' Josh Horowitz on Instagram, "Many great people lost their jobs. I was hired by MTV News 17 years ago. I'm so honored to have been a small part of its history. Wishing the best for the best in the business." The news comes on the heels of a disappointing first quarter earnings report for the corporation.
"This is a very sad day for a lot of friends and colleagues," wrote MTV News' Josh Horowitz on Instagram, "Many great people lost their jobs. I was hired by MTV News 17 years ago. I'm so honored to have been a small part of its history. Wishing the best for the best in the business." The news comes on the heels of a disappointing first quarter earnings report for the corporation.
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So metal up your ass!
Well, you're not wrong. I live in the South, and kids listen to either Rap or Country (there's something surreal about pulling up next to a pickup truck at a red light, with a teenaged boy in John Deere ballcap blasting Gangsta Rap).
The war is over, and Rap won.
Rock and Roll is pretty much dead. There's no new rock or metal outside of some boutique Nordic death metal stuff that American stations wouldn't play anyway. Boomers and Gen X will take Rock to their graves with them, and then its gone.
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Tennessee-born Zennial here, I listened mostly to EDM and industrial metal growing up. I will admit, my musical taste is very different from most people I know my age, but I don't know hardly anyone my age who listens to just rap, or if they do, it's really experimental Death Grips-type shit.
Well there's your problem. I don't
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Go woke go broke (Score:2, Insightful)
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Your AI sucks.
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Ah yes, found liable for defamation by refuting a rape claim that the jury in question explicitly found him not liable for. That's not ripe for a 1st amendment challenge at all. That doesn't even get into all the egregious missteps by the judge regarding jury instructions.
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The only reason that it wasn't actual rapey rape was that she wasn't sure if he had successfully penetrated her. That's the real news here. Your idol is a micropenis. We already knew he was an abuser, since his ex-wife told us all he raped her before later saying he didn't after she started getting death threats. Of course, that wasn't legally rape either, but only because by state law a man couldn't rape his wife at the time. But I bet you want that law to come back, right?
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He's not my idol. I did not vote for him. Stop with the ad hominem and strawmanning. It's unbecoming. Be better.
The reason it wasn't rape is no rape was or could have been proven. That's the entire point of the statute of limitations. After a period of time it is no longer possible in most cases to determine guilt in a just way and this is still an innocent until proven guilty legal system, or supposed to be, anyway.
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He's not my idol. I did not vote for him.
How's about you stop defending him with the same fervor that those who did demonstrate, then? You're borrowing all of their arguments. When you become indistinguishable from his supporters, you become one of his supporters. It's that simple.
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I am defending the United States Constitution and everyone's right to a fair trial.
If that happens to align with his supporters, so what? I don't give a flying fuck if it was literally Adolf Hitler on trial. Adolf gets a fair and impartial trial, the same as everyone else. The moment we pre-decide someone we don't like gets a different/lesser standard of Justice, it's fucking over.
What are you doing? Certainly not defending Justice or the US Constitution.
Be better, dude.
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I am defending the United States Constitution and everyone's right to a fair trial.]
Give up trying reason with dinkypoo on anything. It's like trying to argue with a treestump. I believe he is nothing but a deliberate troll, if you will notice he clearly has no clue on anything he is talking about. Everything you posted about the case is a fact. Once the case has a venue change it will quickly be tossed out.
As for dinky, I said I believe he is a deliberate troll but from my experience most trolls try to blend in to sew discord. They will try to keep a coherent story to keep the lo
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He's not my idol. I did not vote for him.
How's about you stop defending him with the same fervor that those who did demonstrate, then? You're borrowing all of their arguments. When you become indistinguishable from his supporters, you become one of his supporters. It's that simple.
Your bias is showing along with a changed narrative to suit your beliefs.
Stating facts isn't defending someone - it's facilitating the ability to talk about something from a place of knowledge instead of mistaken assumption or misinformation. You'd do well to talk about the matter at hand rather than attack the person speaking intelligently to it.
Trump is all kinds of terrible but that doesn't mean he also never did anything good. The inability to discuss things objectively instead of "orange man bad" is
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This wasn't a criminal case dipshit. It was a preponderance of evidence standard. Guilt doesn't enter into it. You are either found liable, or not liable.
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Our Justice system -requires- fairness. Was his trial fair? Did the judge follow the same standards that's normally applied to random people?
No.
That's it. That's all it comes down to.
Was it a fair trial or not? No, it clearly was not. I don't give a shit who is on trial. It could be Hitler or Pol Pot or whoever the fuck. They get a fair trial. This was not it.
I am defending the very concept of fairness in our Justice system. For -everyone-. What are you doing? Certainly not concerned with the Uni
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Lol you sound like someone that lost an election. WAAAHHHH I LOST IT ISN"T FAIR!
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I've watched dozens of trials in the US. I can't imagine that I'd call any one of them fair.
There is so much that has to do with the knowledge, skill, talent, and preparation of the lawyers involved that most trials are as fair as a one hundred-pound ultra flyweight going up against Mike Tyson in his prime.
Trump's lawyers seemed to be blowing off the case or were dealing with a client who was blowing off the case and not taking it seriously so they couldn't mount a real defense.
In theory, Trump could have h
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Only a fucking idiot would fall for the perjury trap that was this case and testify in court, or even attend court and allow the media circus to build. Then you had Carrol's lawyer admit that she helped get the law extending the statute of limitations in New York by one year explicitly to allow this lawsuit passed. That makes that law a Bill of Attainder, which in the US is unconstitutional.
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Maybe, just maybe, I didn't vote for him in 2016 because for the first time I stayed home because I thought both candidates were shit.
My vote always goes to the candidate I want in office. I do not vote for lesser evils, ever. I sure as Hell didn't want a criminal pos like Hillary in office and Trump was a NYC real estate magnate and therefore also likely criminal. You can't get anything of significance built in NYC without dealing with the mob.
For 2020, I had the choice between the guy who was an obnoxio
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New York A.G changed the sexual assault limitations for 1 year so they could go after Trump
New York STATE GOVERNMENT [cnn.com] changed the statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions of rape and other sex crimes in 2019.
New York STATE GOVERNMENT [ny.gov] passed the Adult Survivors Act, for a one-year window of ALL victims of sexual assault crimes previously blocked by inadequate and inappropriate statutes of limitations.
If you inbreds are too fucking dumb to understand who did what, no wonder you fucking retards
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"They" Uh, no, she's not funding anything. The lawsuit was funded by someone else. Then there's the fact that the judge allowed character evidence of the defendant, but not the plaintiff. Specifically, he disallowed that she claimed in her book that she had been raped many times by different people.
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The Jury found all that stuff because it's New York, they hate Trump's guts, and they were going to charge him with something, because they knew they couldn't prosecute him for rape. All this stuff will be dismissed on appeal, and she'll never see a dime.
Keep telling yourself that. Wonder why the fine folks of NYC would hate his guts?
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"found liable for defamation by refuting a rape claim that the jury in question explicitly found him not liable for."
FALSE. The jury found... [nytimes.com]
The Jury found all that stuff because it's New York, they hate Trump's guts, and they were going to charge him with something, because they knew they couldn't prosecute him for rape. All this stuff will be dismissed on appeal, and she'll never see a dime.
I'll bet you one internet that when it's inevitably thrown our the news cycle decides it isn't important enough to report on.
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Trump screwed himself on this one. After boasting about grabbing women by the pussy on camera, in his deposition he mistook the victim for his wife, after claiming she wasn't his type.
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You should double check what your script is outputting before blindly posting random phrases that don't parse into anything.
A random word generator will never pass. Try using one of the free gpt services instead of rolling your own.
Malware C&C? (Score:2)
You should double check what your script is outputting before blindly posting random phrases that don't parse into anything.
I've occasionally wondered whether that sort of posting might be some malware gang taking advantage of Slashdot's open posting policy to operate a command-and-control path for a botnet.
That sort of thing might parse into nonsense for a human reader using actual English vocabulary and rules, but parse into bot commands using a custom parser just fine.
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Hmm possibly but why not just use paste bin or other random freebie dump site no one will ever look at? Oh wait, this is slashdot, no one will ever look at it. :-)
I think it's failed text generator using input from other slashdot posts. I assume the long term goal is to have a bot that just stirs shit up and trolls automatically all day.
Re:Nobody went broke (Score:2, Informative)
You can't find one company that went broke. https://www.rollingstone.com/c... [rollingstone.com]
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I saved that article so I could cite it, but it fucking hurts bad, because of this line:
"Kellogg Co. is still outperforming market predictions â" even with inflation raising prices."
So the author may be a social progressive, but they are also an economic ignoramus and bootlicker. Inflation is the condition of prices rising across the board, and Kellogg's has record profits during a period of inflation because they are helping to drive inflation [epi.org] , not the other way around.
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Tell that to Budwiser and Disney. Budwisers sales are in free fall, and has released three of its biggest flops back to back. It is being predicted that Disney latest live action disaster is going to fail, hard. They may not be exactly going broke, but they are feeling the ramifications of pissing off their core customers.
In fact almost every company that "went woke" in the last few years is pulling away from it as fast as they can. There are a few that are doubling down the majority trend, currently
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From the fuck your feelings crowd. Snowflake.
Music TV (Score:5, Insightful)
I can still remember decades ago when a friend of mine's family (that had cable tv, something my house never had) always had the living room TV on and tuned to MTV. That was their house radio basically.
y'know, back when MTV was Music TV.
Re: Music TV (Score:4, Insightful)
The good old days, when MTV played music videos. I can't imagine who watches the trash they produce now, but someone must.
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These guys are all screwed (Score:5, Insightful)
There is a massive glut of content available now, and it's super cheap. I remember when I was growing up in the 90s, there would be like two new season shows each week (Thursday and Friday prime time). The rest was either mass produced soaps, or reruns. EVERY teen show for about a decade was produced by Peter Engel, and almost every drama show by Donald P. Bellisario.
Even back when Netflix was starting out and House of Cards came out, there was little to compare it too. It was great and so people signed up for Netflix.
Now there is so much content I regularly find shows that I've 'missed' from a few years ago that are really great. That's before you add in foreign languages productions which is a huge treasure trove. Or just meh stuff that fills in time and is entertaining enough - that's basically endless. I don't have anywhere near enough time to watch everything I'd like.
Unless they can figure out a way to increase the time people have available to watch content, the situation is just going to get worse and worse, and coming soon is going to be low budget amateur drama productions like what youtube vloggers have done to all the travel/review type TV shows. The falling cost of production tools and CGI + AI is going to accelerate this (just think of the amazing Starship animations that are being done).
Their revenue model basically assumes everyone will pay for all the streamers and they'll be able to keep growing revenues each year after that. The reality is that the whole media industry has likely reached an inflection point where revenues are going to be extremely difficult to maintain.
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Unless they can figure out a way to increase the time people have available to watch content, the situation is just going to get worse and worse,
I've got GREAT news for you! In a couple years we'll automate our way out of ever having to work! THE FUTURE'S SO BRIGHT, WE GOTTA WEAR OUR METAGOGGLES!
Re:These guys are all screwed (Score:5, Informative)
It's a shame because MTV news did some good reporting on issues not covered elsewhere. Their MTV Need To Know channel on YouTube has some good explainers.
Their demographic is particularly broke right now. Younger audiences both don't have the money to pay for this stuff, and are more likely to get news from other sources anyway.
Buzzfeed News was another one that did some great investigations that were largely ignored by other media orgs. They partnered with the BBC and others.
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"Choose or Lose" was good stuff, too.
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MTV and VH1 were great in the late 80s, early 90s. You could sit there all day and flip back and forth watching music videos and it was pretty awesome. MTV went downhill as soon as they started doing "real" tv. The stuff after, Survivor, Big Brother, other stupid crap like that, wasn't really any better either. I know a lot of people that liked some of those shows but meh, I'm good no thanks.
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You get people feeling like they've been set aside like genx really was yet with no serious accomplishments. Genz is now culturally dominant, though, you ain't seen nothing yet!
I was watching Star Trek new worlds last night. Rather than a tight knit military organization like star trek depicted we got a bunch of "What would it look like if genz had warp drive?"
Literally, it was "adult aged children in space, with phasers".
The future is now.
Bitter? (Score:1)
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Anybody else still bitter at MTV Entertainment Studios for turning MTV into a reality-tv station?
As much as I despise reality TV, being bitter about this would require me caring about MTV in the first place.
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Bitter? Somewhat, but that feels like a missed opportunity now.
Music Television stopped playing music.
Scifi rebranded to Syfy and started showing reality television
History Channel started showing Ancient Aliens.
TLC stopped pushing anything of educational value.
Comedy Central became known for news.
I could go on, but the point is all of these organizations shifted away their original programming in order to chase profits.
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History Channel use to be a pretty awesome channel. The again, that was 20+ years ago...
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I was until I realized I can go to YouTube and watch any music video ever made (without the annoying blather of VJs).
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But some of them were great. I still love the two that liked smacking each other, ranting about fire, and their love of Gwar. In fact they're back with a new show, that's sadly streaming only.
Aww shucks (Score:2)
Good thing Kurt Loder moved on to other things.
MTV News? (Score:2)
What is MTV News and why should I care? Why whoud I care even by MTV proper?
Good Riddance? (Score:2)
MTV Forgot Who They Were (Score:3)
I stopped watching it decades ago.
Did Kurt Loder survive? (Score:2)
I guess Kurt Loder needs to get his resume up to date.
You heard it... (Score:1)
[ ...Peace Sells bass rfff... ]
First.
What Happened (Score:1)
In the past, you would wak into a pub/bar, and there would be MTV playing on a few screens.
Now it's wall-to-wall screens - even in restaurants - all full of grunting jocks and talking heads (about the grunting jocks).
Yuck. Thank heaven for my tv-b-gone.
ChatGPT (Score:2)
Just have ChatGPT make up your news!
Low cost... just a few low skilled workers.
Big bucks... people will read it and believe it (and click on the ads).
More useless noise...GONE! (Score:1)
And not a moment too soon!
Um, it really only takes a small staff to... (Score:3)
run music videos all day and all night... oh wait, my bad.
for a moment I flashed-back to the 1980s when Music TeleVision ran music videos.
I forgot we were in the "new and improved" future where MTV runs "reality" TV shows about idiots, Discovery channel runs "Naked and Afraid" endlessly, Headline News runs drama shows, AMC never runs classic movies, Arts & Enterntainment never runs anything entertaining and hasn't even HEARD of the arts, half the channels on cable IN AMERICA are in Spanish, etc
I want my flying car, jetpack, personal robot servant, and those moon bases we were supposed to have in the 21st century.
Hey, you kids, git offa my lawn! [end of rant][smile]