Posted on 05/11/2023 6:43:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s becoming a lot of fun to watch the propaganda organs react to the recently announced plan of Tucker Carlson to use the recently liberated Twitter as his future platform, post-Fox. The combination of Elon Musk, who has become a free speech disciple, and is not-so-incidentally one of the world’s richest people and widely admired by the public for his pioneering entrepreneurship, with Tucker Carlson, who already was the most important political commentator in America, has got them scared.
NBC News dug up Brian Stelter, the recently-fired CNN commentator, to help its own Tom Costello bemoan the fact that nobody s going to provide censorship. It’s going to be a “free for all” -- which is the last thing that propaganda media want to see.
They actually said that free is bad (transcript, screengrab, and video via Grabien):
COSTELLO: “OK. Well listen, Twitter was already under fire from misinformation, disinformation, all out lies —“
STELTER: “Right.”
COSTELLO: “— anti-Semitism, racism, before Elon Musk took over and now it’s gotten kind of crazy, right, seemingly unmoored, if you will. Will anybody be able to police what Carlson says or is this the point? It’s just a free for all.”
STELTER: “I think this is the point. It is a free for all. That’s what Elon Musk wants to provide. This move by Tucker may cement the idea of Twitter as a right-wing website.”
The characteristic response of the tech oligopolists (minus Musk’s Twitter), all-in with the propaganda media for control to the public’s information flow, has been to starve conservative outlets of revenue. They do this with advertiser boycotts and sheer monopolization of online advertising revenues by Google and Facebook parent Meta. But will this work with Tucker on Twitter?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
He’ll make much, much more by taking his show to Twitter, which opens up multiple revenue streams for him. It’s a model that could easily be replicated by others, with top cover being provided by Elon Musk himself. And it’s a model that would be a reckoning for the establishment media, with all-important ad dollars leaving cable and broadcast news (does that even still exist?) and migrating to independent platforms and creators.
First, there are sponsorships. If we use the CPM (cost per one thousand) model, Tucker could easily command a best-in-class rate of $40 from advertisers (and there are plenty looking to support free speech!). That’s $40 for every one thousand listens, views, or downloads. We know that his two recent Twitter videos garnered millions of views and his show averaged around three million viewers, so we can safely estimate a Twitter viewership of at least two million (and that’s probably low). That means Tucker could charge $80,000 for each ad he reads during the show. And he would likely do at least three ads per show, and possibly more, bringing the daily total to $240,000. You can see how he could quickly and easily surpass his Fox News earnings just on sponsorships. (snip)
free speech
very very scary
to the LEFT
tyrannies depend on
a tightly controlled narrative
Twas a Dominion lawsuit that set the next Rush Limbaugh free.
Tucker tells it as it is.
Think of Tucker’s emancipation as the best thing Dominion Voting Systems ever did.
He and Musk will create a new model
This is going to be epic.
Nobody s going to provide censorship.
The radicals will be drinking early and often.
The left will use lawfare.
Just like they did on Fox.
Sue sue sue.
Their courts will muzzle him.
Yes
Tucker is back on Twitter.
I am convinced he is the new CEO of Twitter.
If I am correct, this should be interesting.
Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson (May 9, 2023)
We’re back.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1656037032538390530
The Dan Bogino show (May 10, 2023)
The Media Revolution Is Happening (Ep. 2008) - 05/10/2023
https://twitter.com/TX_1/status/1656844757794947076
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