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The episode is covering some job stress seen across the media landscape.
First, we take a look at the effective shutdown of Hollywood, as the actors union has walked out, now having joined the writers who have already been on strike for months. There is an interesting connection to the newscasters and it brings up some ethical questions for the industry that has shown a disregard for ethics.
To go with that, a series of layoffs in the media environment has led to specifically affecting the relatively new DEI offices that were all the rage in corporate America. In just the past two weeks at least five entertainment corporations have let their DEI executives go during the layoffs. We show how those jobs had a built-in expiration date. Then we look at a pair of major newspapers that have dispatched their Sports sections entirely.
Now crack one open and savor some mainstream media mayhem and malpractice.
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- The Screen Actors Guild has voted to go on strike.
- The broadcast journalists are part of the striking union (though not on strike).
- In Hollywood, a number of recent DEI layoffs continue the trend of closing these offices.
- The Los Angeles Times eliminates its Sports Section, folding minimal coverage into another.
- The New York Times shifts its sports coverage over to its new website The Athletic.
- Jim Thompson gives us an inside-the-office look at how the LA Times has devolved.
