Larry, you know I pride myself on my brevity.
I like to say, when crystalizing the state of the News Misleadia: “Pravda and Isvestia never worried about their ratings.”
Please borrow that. Makes a powerful point with one sentence.
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No they don’t and some folks like bezos are so wealthy that any loss they take in media is a joke.
Even in citizen kane, the main character bought a newspaper and was told it was losing money. I don’t remember the exact line but he said at that pace I’ll be broke in 50 years.
I’m too lazy to go find the exact quote :-)
I wish that sometime during the next few days, President Trump could record a speech that he could override all the major networks with. I don’t even know if that’s possible anymore, but a John Galt like speech wherein he said, “Just for 15 minutes, let’s have silence from the networks, and CNN, and FOX. Let’s shut down Twitter and Facebook and Instagram for a bit, and remember what it feels like to not be subject to all that relentless negative, Marxist messaging.” Then maybe a montage of beautiful shots of America from sea to shining sea, with his voiceover about what is great about this country, and freedom, and capitalism, and individuality...
I think that's true. I wish I knew how that could change.
I really hate marketing. Professional manipulators. I think it's bad for society, but I certainly don't think it's going away.
Unlike the other networks, Faux sold their entertainment arm. They aren’t subsidized by a Comcast or AT&T. If their ratings and ad revenue tank, they are done. Put differently, the news arm of Faux is Faux while AT&T can count on CNN as a money sucking tax write off.
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That’s a great line. I shall look for opportunities to use it.
No more Twitter clicks for me going forward. Time for them to wither on the vine. It seems reasonable for freepers to cease linking to that propaganda cesspool. Not calling for a ban though, just a quiet walkaway.
Whomever makes a simple 30 min syndicated newscast in the style of one from the pre-1995 era will have a ratings juggernaut.
Doesnt have to be right biased, just straight.
You guys are the best analysts around
Grant that money does not equal survival. That does make sense in the present climate.
What about the portfolio carried by the media to inculcate, supress, manage and otherwise control ALL information?
If people do not watch (click;buy), then they are not being influenced.
If there are choices (and there are, even if they devolve down to the samizdat level), people will gravitate to those choices.
If the MSM cannot fulfill its revolutionary purpose and is still subsidized by the power-mongers, then why?
To play hog-in-the-trough and crowd out the dissenters? That _could_ happen if/when commies take total control. Hence, the samizdat option.
How long can any institution remain smugly confident they are the only source of whatever they produce and so, everyone must partake and agree?
This is how counter-revolutions arise.
America has been rotted from within. Result: at least 1/2 the populace disbelieves any institution and that number keeps growing.
But, humans have been re-hardwired to create institutions over the past 200 years. Don’t they then create alternatives with the result of institutional civil war, dueling authorities, and at some point, outright kinetic war?
The Soviet experiment last 70 years. For at least the last 25, the populace was cynical, sullen, resentful and just needed organizing to rebel. If they had been armed, would it have happened sooner?
Today, with information technology, everything is sped up. Information technology favors individualism: anyone can write a book, set up a web site, promote their views (I realize this is becoming more and more difficult)
Even with the enlistment of violent youth and professional street cadres, ala the Asian Communist model, there is still not a uniformly compliant populace.
Isn’t this particular approach of a controlling news media already failing and sowing the seeds of a new, more distributed model?
Yep, Vremya was always the most watched show in the Soviet Union.
“The most insidious power that the news media has is the power to ignore.“ Chris Plante, WMAL.