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Really surprised they couldn’t get Bari Weiss or Joe Kahn or the Ellison or Murdoch failsons on there

Hamish McKenzie is Chief Writing Officer at Substack? Chief Writing Officer? How can I, or anyone, take these people seriously?

Honestly the Microsoft sponsorship may be the most insulting part of this to me

This is the "liberal media" dems have spent 30 years and counting orienting their entire party toward pleasing Meanwhile the right attacks endlessly One model works, one is a flat loser

And, just scrolled down to confirm that the one person I thought might offer some much needed pushback is there on behalf of one of the sponsors (the Knight Foundation) and will presumably be acting as a moderator, not offering their own perspective.

Semafor is a major disappointment. They're trying to model themselves after Politico — access journalism at its worst.

a last aside it's kind of disappointing this performative brunchlord cack is being hosted by The Knight Foundation, who generally does good work on this front. That money should be going to people ACTUALLY restoring trust in news.

Ben Smith been a money scheming fraud for a while now- fair.org/home/why-did...

The “journalists” have to phrase questions in a way that will prevent any slip ups. Half the time the answer they’re looking for is in the question.

“Restoring trust” is Lost Cause-level code for sowing distrust. MLA recommends “never use”. Note Surgeon General nominee used it repeatedly today.

Brendan Carr??? Why on earth would the guy spearheading the censorship and destruction of independent media at the behest of the regime be invited to the “Restoring Trust in Media” confab?

. . . Seriously CARR!?!

My contempt and scorn for Ben Smith is likely irrational. Nevertheless, it persists.

How in the world did they manage to *not* get Weiss on this roster?

Legit lol at Brendan Carr being the first name listed for a conference aimed at "saving media".

Brendan fucking Carr????????

How can the knight foundation be a part of this? It’s shameful for them.

maybe she will show up as a surprise guest in a clown suit

🎯

Thanks for highlighting this. I would have assumed Semafor was "real."

I’m rooting for norovirus

Brendan Carr, bwahahahaha!

I wonder how many of these guys are represented in the Epstein files as well?

Welker is terrible, ostensibly representing POC at the highest echelons and failing at a spectacular pace, she's basically an overpaid sanitation worker.

Brunchlords [chef's kiss]

he's there so Ben Smith can pepper him with a few softballs while pretending it's a "grilling" It's credibility kayfabe

yeah they're not actually interested in journalism they're interested in creating a sort of credibility simulacrum

Jfc

Deborah Furness resigned from the BBC in November after allegations were made of bias against the editing of an interview with Trump.

This is some serious legion of doom level conference scheduling. I remember when the Knight Foundation did some good work, this hurts to see

I didn’t get past the Microsoft sponsor logo

last year overt white supremacist Megyn Kelly was a key presenter, if that makes you feel any better

Hopefully they’re just going to ply all these dipshits with industrial-grade laxatives and deny them access to a bathroom.

😂😅🤣

It sure does

No Bari Weiss?

"Trust" obviously means many things on this issue, but they're going with "not right wing enough"? Dear god.

The way they continuously name things the opposite of their intent is fucking infuriating. “Destroying meaning in language.” “Putting the foxes in charge of the henhouses.” And so many other options for a more factual descriptive term.

Any time I see a Semafor "journalist" on MS Now, I change the channel. I don't know why they give them a platform.

Seems less a conference and more of a meeting of the "Board of Propaganda".

I'll be sure to be washing my hair that day ...

Put a pin in it.

Bunch of douchebags in hot dog costumes

Leading with the FCC chair and the guy responsible for gutting washpo is saying something

Yikes

Jeez, what a lineup. If I weren't so polite & restrained, I'd describe it as a giant circle jerk. But that would be crass.

Oh vom.

what a fucking joke

they will operate under the pretense that it's ok he's there because Ben Smith will "force him to answer hard-hitting questions," which, of course, he won't.

HAHAHAHA Also this: youtu.be/dsoImQfVsO4?...

anyone got any napalm handy?

jesus

I don't think it's possible to restore trust in any media outlet that sided with, collaborated with, apologized for, sane-washed or caved to Trump. They just can't come back from that betrayal of the American people. Some things are simply unforgivable.

Stopped reading at Brendan Carr...

What are you doing @knightfoundation.org ?

I tuned out at "Brendan Carr". Why would one of trump's Chief Simps have anything of note that I would want to waste my time on?

Add Bari Weiss and it's a full house.