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1. First version of this network of comped reporters appeared in Research General post #2436167

https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/2435520.html#2436167

 

1. It was generated using information contained in patriotsfight115 (https://8ch.net/patriotsfight/res/62.html#115)

and Research General #2433773 (https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/2433251.html#2433773).

 

1. As networks go there wasn't much to see–just a bunch of hubs (red circles representing news organizations)

with spokes terminating in blue squares (representing journalists/reporters). Those were default colors assigned in

by Netdraw. No significance should be associated with them.

 

1. Only one person belonged to two of these clusters–Jonathan Alter who had ties to both Bloomberg and MSNBC.

 

1. It was noted that "…there are certainly many more connections between reporters and organizations

that are not represented."

 

1. An astute anon anticipated that more connections would be found among the nodes (journalists) and hubs (news orgs)

if prior employment history was incoporated.

 

1. Version 2 of the network incorporates that information, along with any new employment that said reporters have had since then. That information was scraped from

their wikipages, twitter or linkedin profiles, and other readily accessible and publicly-available information.

 

1. There are several important differences between these two network representations. Perhaps the most important

is how connected or "networky" the resulting graph is. Except for the three names in the bottom left corner

Maria-Elena Salinas (Univision), Amanda Becker (Reuters), and Alyssa Mastromonoco (Marie Claire, Vice), the other

87 reporters and 63 news organizations are all linked by way of the employment relationship.

 

1. I counted about 229 employment ties among the 156 reporters and new organizations.

While there are other relationships that could also be considered, this one alone is enough to establish

the high degree of connectedness.

 

1. One thing that's interesting is that no other the reporter's employment prospects seem to have been

hurt–or their reputations seriously harmed–by the revelation of their havign been comped. The only

ones not currently working are the white males who got #metoo-ed, e.g. Charlie Rose and Mark Halperin. Other than

them, everyone else seems to be gainfully employed either at the same place or somewhere else.

 

1. As stated above, all that employment information was gained by looking through the reporters public bios.

Many other bits of interesting information are contained there as well. In no particular order, I noticed that

 

1. …many reporters are married to other reporters; marriage among high-profile reporters seems not uncommon

 

1. … while all college-educated, not one that I can recall has a background in any STEM (science, technology,

engineering, or math-based) field.

 

1. With the notable exception of the late Ed Schultz–who was quite a good college quarterback and got his start

as a sportscaster–none of these reporters seemed to have played college sports.

 

1. None of them seem to have any military experience. They have been to war zones to report, however.

 

1. Only a few seem to have any private sector experience outside of journalism and very few

have done anything remotely entrepreneurial.

 

1. Aside from Jeff Zucker & Arianna Huffington, few others if any, have had any senior leadership responsiblity.

 

1. Several of the reporters have written books, mostly on politics, politicians, and political campaigns. One

even wrote a screenplay based on one those books (Matt Bai's "All the Truth is Out.")

 

1. Only one reporter's bio indicates having worked in a nationally-known conservative outlet (The NYTimes'

Jonathan Martin worked for National Review in 2006).

 

1. A few reporters (Lisa Lerer, Greg Sargent, Ben Smith, Sam Stein) were said to have been members

of the infamous and now-defunct Journo-list which was disbanded (or just gone underground?) in 2010.

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

 

1. Several of the organizations in this network had reporters said to have been part of Journo-list

–Politico, WaPo, HuffPo, TPM, Chicago Trib, Bloomberg, Daily Beast, etc.)

 

1. News organizations with the most links/spokes in the network are ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, NY Times, and Politico.

 

1. Reporters most influentially-positioned in the network include Norah O'Donnell, David Chailan, Jake Tapper,

Jeff Zucker, Jeff Zeleny, John Berman, Alex Seitz-Wald, Beth Fouhy, Phil Griffin, Thomas Roberts, Ryan Lizza, and

Maggie Haberman.

 

1. Created all this with with Excel, UCINet, and Netdraw