What an incredible week indeed. On one hand, President Donald J. Trump — yes, the man the mainstream media swore would bring about the apocalypse — just landed a historic diplomatic move in the Middle East. The Gaza-Israel peace deal may go down as one of the most important foreign policy events in decades, and who’s at the center of it? Not Joe Biden, that’s for sure. While he’s busy trying to remember what state he’s in, Trump is jet-setting across the globe working deals that leftists said were “impossible.” And yet, here we are.
Meanwhile, back at home, the left’s media darlings are dropping like flies. NBC News is the latest victim of its own ideological overreach, as reports confirm that about 150 staffers have been laid off. This isn’t just a routine belt-tightening — this is a direct result of years of ignoring what their audience actually wanted. People didn’t tune in for lectures. They wanted news, not progressive sermons about how oppressive the world is.
Legacy media outlets like NBC have spent years letting their newsrooms morph into social justice seminar halls. Instead of reporting facts, they dedicated entire departments to identity politics. DEI teams. LGBTQ+ coverage desks. “Race and culture” editorial squads. All staffed up while ratings went down and trust plummeted. And now? Those very departments are being “eliminated,” according to multiple reports. Cue the pearl-clutching from the activist left.
BREAKING: Fake news NBC has FIRED ~150 employees (7% of its staff) as ratings continue to plummet.
Reports also indicated that diversity teams dedicated to black, latino, asian American, and LGBTQ news were among the cuts.
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The Variety report hit the nail on the head. NBC is finally shutting down its “teams dedicated to covering issues affecting Black, Asian American, Latino and LGBTQ+ groups.” Not because those issues don’t matter, but because viewers got tired of being pandered to and preached at. When you make everything about identity, you stop telling the actual story. Turns out, Americans are smarter than the media gives them credit for — and they’re done playing along.
NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde tried to soften the blow in a memo dripping with corporate sadness. The typical “this was hard,” and “not a reflection on the great work,” speech. But let’s be real: this is the direct result of an industry that’s prioritized wokeness over journalism. They gambled everything on leftist ideology and now they’re hemorrhaging money, viewers, and credibility.
It’s not just NBC, either. CNN — another pillar of progressive talking points — already let go of about 200 employees earlier this year. And now CBS News is joining the spiral. After their merger with Paramount, CBS named Bari Weiss (yes, that Bari Weiss — who left the New York Times over its leftist groupthink) as the new Editor-in-Chief. That’s not just a shakeup — that’s a sea change. And guess what else? More layoffs are coming there, too.
This isn’t just about budgets or ad revenue. This is about trust. The mainstream media spent years telling half the country that their values were wrong, their beliefs were dangerous, and their votes were unacceptable. So people tuned out. They started going to independent outlets, podcasts, and alternative media — not because those sources were louder, but because they were honest.
Let’s be blunt: NBC and friends got too comfortable. They believed the echo chamber they built. They convinced themselves that if they just shouted “racism” or “misinformation” loud enough, they could drown out dissent. But reality, as always, has a way of crashing the party. Now they’re trimming the fat — and conveniently, a lot of that fat was wrapped up in the most performatively progressive departments.
So say it louder for the folks in the back: Go woke, go broke. The slogan wasn’t just a meme. It was a warning. And the companies that ignored it? They’re living out the consequences in real time.
Trump’s in the Middle East building peace. NBC’s back home laying off its DEI department. One of these things is leadership. The other is a well-earned wake-up call.
