Posted on 01/28/2024 8:48:20 AM PST by Steely Tom
Sports Illustrated stopped being about sports a long time ago.
The swimsuit issue just became its rallying call for all the kooks and perverts. It was the ultimate in your face to normal sports fans or any normal person for that matter.
I'd occasionally pick it up when visiting from Atlanta, GA. Subscribed years ago and now receive it in Huntsville, AL.
They hired younger kids who have no real world experience and have been indoctrinated into a form of thinking that has its own language and definitions unrecognizable to most people. “White supremacy” doesn’t mean white Aryan nation types; it means, to them, anything that perpetuates “the ways of culture and commerce” which is why and how the LA Times can call Larry Elder, a black man, a “white supremacist”.
They have become tools of propaganda and this is not new, but essentially regurgitate talking points handed to them by political hacks. There are many internet video memes I’m sure you’ve seen some where they spice together scores of different broadcasters all using the same phrase like “bombshell story”. They never question the narrative they just repeat it. They are not journalists in the sense of Woodward and Bernstein trying to get their hands on secret documents to challenge authority, they are advocates for causes and are fed documents and sources that feed into their biases.
Then there is the economics of it. All these outlets cater to the same audience so they fragment the market. Advertising dollars are diluted and there are fewer ad dollars because the days of going to a department store to buy appliances and clothes and sundries are over. Technology has played a part as advertisers no longer carpet bomb their ads the ads are targeted using computer algorithms to drive potential customers to specific destinations- or right on Amazon. Amazon is, iirc, the 3rd largest advertising platform in the world. Google I think is #1.
Well at least someone holds to tradition. I used to read The New York Post but stopped because I got tired of the anti Trump bs.
Small-town weeklys are still mostly local/area news. The political coverage is muted and more attuned to the logical issue and pesonalities.
Metro dailies? No thanks.
In virtually every organization there is an expectation that the employees adopt the philosophy and values of the employer with regard to their work behavior. It’s always a mistake to assume any employee of a news network actually believe (personally) what they say on the air. They’re “talent” and are paid to perform as expected by their bosses.
Simple as that. Megyn had a boss at Fox. Now she’s her own boss.
“So many woke people think they can ignore the Laws of Supply and Demand.”
Only government can ignore. Look for government being the only source of news in the future.
“They are closing things because power has been consolidated….”
There used to be multiple newspapers available in most cities of any size and varying viewpoints. I used to get a morning and an afternoon paper and would read both, plus a weekly magazine or two. Now the mass print media is substantially consolidated and the stories are crafted to fit the narrative, they don’t need as many reporters and staff. And much easier to control the smaller numbers.
Together with the internet enabling the truth to get out sometimes a lot can’t trust the media. Unfortunately some old school still buy into the party line stories.
Highly recomm3nd it highly?
Department of redundancy department.
Dead tree editions of everything have been steadily failing in the face of the digital onslaught for what, now, thirty years? No surprises there. And if you cut your potential market by 50% by taking political sides, you've cut your market by 50%. If your margin is 3%, well, that's a problem, now isn't it?
I don't get why they don't get it. And it's an issue exacerbated by the fact that AI's can write propaganda just as well as people and already know how to code. Bye bye, buggy whip salesmen.
“She was Tucker before Tucker.”
Yes. Before her, there was Glenn Beck, and before him Bill O’Reilly. I think they were all good and got good ratings. As a bonus, she’s easy on the eyes.
Only #2 is important. WWW would not have overtaken print if the latter could have maintained any semblance of integrity and honesty. It is like a church. If the priest/pastor/imam is found to have committed an atrocity against the embedded religion the higher ups might as well stage a friendly fire as that church is cursed — which is kinda the point of religions.
Print media let Marketing/Sales pimps have influence over news/opinion and the wall between the two. Kinda like letting HR come in with CRT/DEI and just stand there.
With the obvious loss of integrity, print buyers walked off.
I personally ran into this out here in CaCaLand. Two papers were popular, one conservative and one liberal — before the latter became a lie for commie trash. The conservative one let the rabid dogs (S&M) inside so they went under. We switched to a county paper that was, truly balanced. But, they too started putting nothing but agitprop on the pages. We cancelled. Got a call from a S&M twerp about re-upping. I told him directly that we cancelled as the paper was nothing but propaganda now, especially the front page. Ooh, did he get mad!
The problem with digital media is that it's impossible to convince people to pay for content that they've become accustomed to getting for free.
There...fixed.
Department of redundancy department.
My proofreader takes Sundays off.
That edituon might become a collectors item. You know, like misprinted postage stamps.
Bkmk
-From 'The Gods of the Copybook Headings' by Rudyard Kipling
...much like the television media outlets running the movie about Moses on Good Friday.
“ I know Megyn Kelly is not welcome by many here, but you can FF past her if you really find her that objectionable.”
I think she’s doing a bang up job and saying things that need to be said
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