Īt this point, he started turning to the "mainstream", "liberal" media outlets in an ultimately failed attempt to reach to left-wing audiences. In 2016 Beck laid off 40 people due to a multimillion dollar loan the company couldn't afford, blaming the loss of money on him campaigning for Ted Cruz, thus the audiences for his radio show (which brought ad money) declining, while at the same time hiring a head for its New York operation which at the same time ceased to exist, as well as buying an expensive $200,000 sedan.
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The abrupt departure of longtime Beck confidants Chris Balfe and Joel Cheatwood in 2014, who had made Beck and TheBlaze into a success, plus the appearance of self-described "superfan" Jonathan Schreiber, who was given CEOship of parent company Mercury Radio Arts, made things even worse, as Schreiber made the company's environment toxic while at the same time Beck became more and more distant. Beck has been consumed with his own greatness and paranoia, while at the same time his website has received ever fewer views (from 21.5 million unique visitors in 2014 to 8 million in 2017 ), and at the same time spending ever more money on new toys such as an Oval Office mockup and ever more expensive vintage microphones. mainly The Daily Beast) have taken notice that TheBlaze just isn't the online conservative media star it was when it came out, and has become ever more irrelevant.Īnd it shows. Starting in 2016, some in the media (i.e. In 2015, TheBlaze attracted national attention for raising over $140,000 for an Indiana pizza restaurant owner who publicly pledged not to serve gay couples, following the passage of Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a law frequently accused of facilitating discrimination by businesses against LGBT people. In fact, there's far more legitimate criticism that kids' science shows do not mention climate change enough. There is nothing controversial about discussing human-caused climate change to children, as it's a topic brought up countless times including in The Magic School Bus, National Geographic Kids, Doc McStuffins, and more. In August 11, long after the episodes aired and children enjoyed them, Glenn Beck and other right-wing grown-ups collectively shat their diapers and decided that the US Government and Obama himself were turning into Satan and convincing our children to change light bulbs so that they didn't have "free choice". There was an effort by the Department of Education to promote a reading program that involved distributing books including a SpongeBob SquarePants book on educating children on human-caused climate change. The cartoons promoted such radical ideas such as riding bikes and walking instead of driving, and using fluorescent light bulbs with the additional crime of failing to mention climate change conspiracies and other bullshit. A Dora the Explorer cartoon was issued at the same time, for the same program. In July of 2011, a mini episode of SpongeBob SquarePants was released, specifically to be shown as part of a United States school program about global warming and what kids can do to help. Moderate amounts of politics are also blended in with the articles, mostly with regards to the 2012 presidential election candidates. Many articles as well as participants in the comment section tend to focus on bashing atheists and anyone who isn't a Christian fundamentalist. The faith section of the site has what you would expect from a conservative media outlet, with a small amount of articles that criticize the Christian religion. Some outliers still exist however such as "Top 10 Best Paying Jobs You Can Get Without a College Degree " and "America, Get Ready for Guinness Beer‘s New ’Guinness Black Lager’. The Business section is more on track than The Stories in that they actually have to do with business rather than people's personal lives. Inflammatory content has been published as well, including groundless implications that Trayvon Martin might have committed arson. TheBlaze publicized a story about a Virginia mother who accused her daughter's special education teacher of assaulting said daughter "during a lesson involving a Muslim 'hand sign.'" Don't forget about those eeeeeeeeeeeeevul Moozlims! Expect plenty of "black on white crime" and "school punishes student for prayer" type of stories. Often, this section highlights stories (both political and human interest) that target a white, Christian, conservative audience with a huge persecution complex. Headlines often use clickbait style of headline writing and appear to be more from a tabloid than a news site. and world, and some human interest stories. political events, current events in the U.S. contains five sections titled, "The Stories," "Business," "Faith," "Technology," and "The
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