Mass firing at Red State

[jpsb]

Mass firing at Red State

Salem Media, owner of the influential conservative outlet RedState, froze the site on Friday and dismissed many of its writers.

Bloggers were locked out of their accounts -- some just temporarily, while the cuts were made, and others permanently.

Erick Erickson, who founded the site 13 years ago, and left in 2015, tweeted about what he called the "mass firing" on Friday morning.

"Very sad to see, but not really surprising given Salem's direction," he wrote. "And, finally, after all these years, they've turned off my account."




Looks like the NeverTrumpers at Red State got purged.

[Emjay]

Mass firing at Red State

Salem Media, owner of the influential conservative outlet RedState, froze the site on Friday and dismissed many of its writers.

Bloggers were locked out of their accounts -- some just temporarily, while the cuts were made, and others permanently.

Erick Erickson, who founded the site 13 years ago, and left in 2015, tweeted about what he called the "mass firing" on Friday morning.

"Very sad to see, but not really surprising given Salem's direction," he wrote. "And, finally, after all these years, they've turned off my account."





Looks like the NeverTrumpers at Red State got purged.

This has to be a good thing.  I could no longer trust, or even stomach, some of their writers who had become as snarky as anything you could find on Yahoo.

I hope Susan Wright is gone.

[WingNot]

This is a good thing. 

[endicom]

"Additionally, Salem owns conservative websites Townhall.com, RedState, and Hot Air, as well as Twitter aggregator Twitchy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Media_Group

[WingNot]

"Additionally, Salem owns conservative websites Townhall.com, RedState, and Hot Air, as well as Twitter aggregator Twitchy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Media_Group

Red State was the bad seed. 

[XenaLee]

"Additionally, Salem owns conservative websites Townhall.com, RedState, and Hot Air, as well as Twitter aggregator Twitchy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Media_Group

I love Townhall.com.  Used to hang out at their forum (loved Warlady, especially).

[GrouchoTex]

I dunno.

Debate is good, and even necessary, even among people who we agree with most of the time.
We do this here.

Echo Chambers are not good or necessary.

I'll miss RedState.
I don't expect them to be around after the Trump administration, if they last that long.

Did I agree with the writers that they fired?
Sometimes, yes, and sometimes, no.

At the end of the day, it's a business, and I guess the ratings were down.

[Emjay]

I dunno.

Debate is good, and even necessary, even among people who we agree with most of the time.
We do this here.

Echo Chambers are not good or necessary.

I'll miss RedState.
I don't expect them to be around after the Trump administration, if they last that long.

Did I agree with the writers that they fired?
Sometimes, yes, and sometimes, no.

At the end of the day, it's a business, and I guess the ratings were down.

Yep, it is a business.  And debate is good.  But when I go to 'conservative' websites, I expect certain things.  Debate, yes.  But piling on Trump is the norm on most media and I didn't go to Red State to see it.  But, Yeah, I hope Red State hangs around.

[GrouchoTex]

Yep, it is a business.  And debate is good.  But when I go to 'conservative' websites, I expect certain things.  Debate, yes.  But piling on Trump is the norm on most media and I didn't go to Red State to see it.  But, Yeah, I hope Red State hangs around.

It was a mix.
It looks like the NT'ers were bad for business and they are gone.
Some were way over the top, no doubt.

National Review has always had a myriad of Conservative opinion, (but much better writers), since the day Buckley founded it.
They've had there own purges, too, like running off the Birchers decades ago.

The truth is, conservatives are more likely to debate the fine points of policy and tenets, and not march in lock-set, like liberals do.

I hope that never changes.
 

[XenaLee]

It was a mix.
It looks like the NT'ers were bad for business and they are gone.
Some were way over the top, no doubt.

National Review has always had a myriad of Conservative opinion, (but much better writers), since the day Buckley founded it.
They've had there own purges, too, like running off the Birchers decades ago.

The true is, conservatives are more likely to debate the fine points of policy and tenets, and not march in lock-set, like liberals do.

I hope that never changes.

Boy.... is that ever an understatement!  Hell, we conservatives can't even agree (in lock-step) with most conservative issues right here...lol!  Not that that's a bad thing, mind you. 

[GrouchoTex]

The true is, conservatives are more likely to debate the fine points of policy and tenets, and not march in lock-set, like liberals do.

You also caught my spelling error, so thank you for that, now corrected.

[XenaLee]

The true is, conservatives are more likely to debate the fine points of policy and tenets, and not march in lock-set, like liberals do.

You also caught my spelling error, so thank you for that, now corrected.

I generally ignore spelling errors (everyone does it)... unless it's a funny error.   ^-^

[Snarknado]

I was looking forward to rejoining RS but Susan Wright appears to still be there - that's a showstopper for me - she should have been the first one fired.

Criticism of Trump is fine but some of those idiots make it sound like they'd be happy to replace him with Clinton or Obama or Sanders - that's the kind of drivel that drove me away from the site...

[Rivergirl]

This is a good thing. 

  Always good for America to censor any opposition to the prevailing opinions.

[txradioguy]

I dunno.

Debate is good, and even necessary, even among people who we agree with most of the time.
We do this here.

Echo Chambers are not good or necessary.

I'll miss RedState.
I don't expect them to be around after the Trump administration, if they last that long.

Did I agree with the writers that they fired?
Sometimes, yes, and sometimes, no.

But because they weren't exactly enamored with The Donald...you'll hear conservatives cheering long and loud about how a Liberal corporation silenced a conservative website.

At the end of the day, it's a business, and I guess the ratings were down.

The broadcast and radio side of Salem is what's bleeding money.  It wasn't the Conservative websites or blog sites.

[Emjay]

I was looking forward to rejoining RS but Susan Wright appears to still be there - that's a showstopper for me - she should have been the first one fired.

Criticism of Trump is fine but some of those idiots make it sound like they'd be happy to replace him with Clinton or Obama or Sanders - that's the kind of drivel that drove me away from the site...

@Snarknado   Totally agree.  Susan could not have been nastier if she'd unleashed her closet Whoopie.

It's kinda the way I feel about TBR.  Legitimate criticism is fine and often deserved.  Jumping on any tiny molehill to make into a negative mountain about Trump bugs me.

[GrouchoTex]

I was looking forward to rejoining RS but Susan Wright appears to still be there - that's a showstopper for me - she should have been the first one fired.

Criticism of Trump is fine but some of those idiots make it sound like they'd be happy to replace him with Clinton or Obama or Sanders - that's the kind of drivel that drove me away from the site...

Interesting.
The things I have read read here, and on Twitter, lead me to believe this was an NT purge at RedState.
Not that they should or shouldn't do that, it's their business to choose who they hire.
They have every right to staff it as they see fit, of course.
With Susan Wright still there, there seems to be more to the story than meets the eye..

[WingNot]

  Always good for America to censor any opposition to the prevailing opinions.

Poor baby. So blind you wish not see the fact of the matter
When the opposition opinion from that place was (Most but not all) blatant hyperbole and the reporting  presented hearsay and lies as fact I say,  step off.

[GrouchoTex]

Interesting.
The things I have read read here, and on Twitter, lead me to believe this was an NT purge at RedState.
Not that they should or shouldn't do that, it's their business to choose who they hire.
They have every right to staff it as they see fit, of course.
With Susan Wright still there, there seems to be more to the story than meets the eye..

So I did some recon work, and the only Susan Wright article I found, had to do with Hannity's Real Estate, but it was dated 5 days ago 4/22/2018.

So there's that.

Looks like an NT purge at RedState.

[corbe]

 

[corbe]

   This makes me appreciate @mystery-ak even More (if that's even possible), she tolerates all of US as her guests and we cover the WHOLE Spectrum.

 

[Silver Pines]

LOL, I saw the news at Twitter and was looking forward to the reaction here.  All of a sudden the Trump fans who called the site garbage because it wasn't a Donald site are like, "Wtf, I love RedState now!"   

What a time to be alive.

[Silver Pines]

   This makes me appreciate @mystery-ak even More (if that's even possible), she tolerates all of US as her guests and we cover the WHOLE Spectrum.

 

@corbe

No, it's not brown-nosing, it's just the truth.

If people need a site that's going to allow them to exist in a bubble and regurgitate their own opinions back at them, they have places like Free Republic or Orange State.  If you prefer to think for yourself and are capable of sorting out the facts on your own, then just go on Twitter and follow the writers who were fired.  You don't need an account to do it; you can just read.  Those people will be picked up by another site; in fact, a lot of things seem to be in the works even now. 

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: CNN MONEY

URL: http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/27/media/redstate-blog-salem-media/index.html

by by Brian Stelter @brianstelter


Salem Media, owner of the influential conservative outlet RedState, froze the site on Friday and dismissed many of its writers.

Bloggers were locked out of their accounts -- some just temporarily, while the cuts were made, and others permanently.

Erick Erickson, the site's longtime editor who left in 2015, tweeted about what he called the "mass firing" on Friday morning.

"Very sad to see, but not really surprising given Salem's direction," he wrote. "And, finally, after all these years, they've turned off my account."

RedState writers work on contract and are paid based on the amount of traffic to their posts.

Salem had no immediate comment. But an internal memo obtained by CNNMoney confirmed the housecleaning.

"We had to make some tough changes to RedState today," Townhall general manager Jonathan Garthwaite wrote in the memo. "While these changes are painful, they were necessary once we reached the conclusion that we could no longer support the entire roster of writers and editors."

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[Night Hides Not]

But because they weren't exactly enamored with The Donald...you'll hear conservatives cheering long and loud about how a Liberal corporation silenced a conservative website.

The broadcast and radio side of Salem is what's bleeding money.  It wasn't the Conservative websites or blog sites.

Salem owns KSKY 660 AM in DFW. The entire lineup is nothing but hard core, dare I say virulent, Trump supporters. Their ratings have been consistently hovering around 1.0 for months.

Mark Davis, the early AM host, is hard to listen to. The content of the show is awful, with only 15 minutes of actual talk every half hour. The rest is filled with commercials and a bit of news at the bottom and top of the hour. Outside of 10 minutes after the hour to 20 minutes, and 20 minutes before the hour for 10-12 minutes, there's no earthly reason to tune them in. I can't believe Salem's making any money with those ratings.