More and more people have gone to free speech social media. Not all. but its a trend
Took um on and broke em!
>> More and more people have gone to free speech social media. Not all. but its a trend
Yup, and one important feature of true “free speech social media” is the phenomenon of the “long interview”. That is to say, rather than ultra-short (malleable) “sound bytes”, the interviewee is subjected to an hour or three during which they can be thoroughly examined by a skilled interviewer, as well as mount their own skilled exposition of what they believe. This is a YUGE!!! development. And the bullshit agenda-driven “mainstream press” are NOT happy with this development! They will adapt, or their asses will be ruthlessly kicked. That’s a GOOD thing.
I personally think podcasts have revived the long- form interview. Furthermore they are unbound by censorship and format restrictions commonly seen in legacy media. Also, at one point legacy media cynically decided that their viewership doesn’t have the attention span required to do long form interviews. Podcasts proved that if there is some real “red meat” in the interview people will watch something longer that a edited, compressed soundbite.
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Free speech social media has it’s fare share of fake news which in itself is free speech.
Where the left spew the lies is irrelevant to those who believe it and there’s plenty that believe it.
I think the bigger issue are those finally waking up to those lies which are in your face obvious blatant lies.
Hard not to see the obvious when the left tells you everything is fine when you can see and feel the disaster all around you.
There is a viewer market for a 24/7 news channel with straight factual news reporting and separate, balanced investigative reporting and clearly identified well reasoned editorial. Essentially traditional journalism . This format would allow for long format interview programming. A billionaire could buy CNN or MSNBC, hire objective reporters and reasoned thoughtful interviewers such a Joe Rogan. This network would rapidly pick up viewers.
The problem though is obtaining advertising money sufficient to support the business. Look at the quality of advertising today on the mainstream leftist media versus upstart networks like Newsmax and ONN. Even Fox with its large audience depends on second and third tier advertisers such as My Pillow and gold sellers. The left, through its control of corporate executive suites, corporate boards, social activist groups and advertising agencies keeps the big corporate money from flowing to untraditional broadcast media.
A prime example is Twitter (X) which suffers from an advertising boycott by the left. Without Elon’s personal funding, X would be gone.
In a free market there would be a major news network truly providing fair and banded reporting and straight news. We do not have free markets anymore, we have oligopolies allied with big government who determine how investment capital is disbursed.