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Posted on 05/27/2017 2:10:46 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
What really powers the media’s fake news scandal machine.
Fake news is profitable.
The New York Times hit piece on the Comey memo earned the paper its most concurrent readers per second. Pretty good for a piece about a piece of paper that the leftist paper had never even seen and which was, supposedly, described to it by one of Comey’s associates.
But that didn’t stop it from racking up over 6 million views.
Media fake news isn’t just an agenda. It’s enormously profitable. Hit pieces powered by anonymous sources bring in over 100,000 readers in an age when live is king. For individual reporters, finding a source, real or fake, that can back up the left’s Trump conspiracy theories can put them on the map.
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Next year, the Post suffered an 85% earnings loss. Baron’s plan to save the paper had failed. Instead what made it a powerhouse again was the flow of anti-Trump hit pieces. As Baron euphemistically put it, “I think there’s a direct connection between investigative reporting and subscriptions.”
“The people who are subscribing clearly want us to do investigative reporting... that’s something they are willing to pay for,” he said. But he was playing coy. Those subscribers wanted anti-Trump hit pieces. . They expected the paper to bring down President Trump. They were investing in dead tree media the way they invested in any left-wing political campaign. The Post had become just another PAC.
The media’s business model was to become Media Matters. The parasite had eaten the beast.
The stories fit Baron’s definition of fake news as “stories that have no basis in fact” and “disseminating bizarre conspiracy theories.”
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos bought the Post for $250 million and invested another $50 million in it. Bezos is famously intolerant of failure. The paper must deliver growth and its growth strategy is Trump fake news.
[You are forced to] making up stuff so you don’t get fired, is now the modus operandi of the entire Washington Post.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/16849/americans-know-65-polled-say-msm-full-fake-news-joseph-curl
But that didn’t stop it from racking up over 6 million views.
Media fake news isn’t just an agenda. It’s enormously profitable. Hit pieces powered by anonymous sources bring in over 100,000 readers in an age when live is king. For individual reporters, finding a source, real or fake, that can back up the left’s Trump conspiracy theories can put them on the map.
The China Daily is a more reliable source of news than any of the U.S. media outlets. I mean that as no exaggeration. We are living in an age where “news” is all propaganda.
When YouTube Vloggers became the reliable source of news, Youtube demonitized anyone putting out political content that was not in keeping with the approved propaganda message.
Those Youtubers are increasing relying on ads they insert into their vlogs and Patreon direct viewer contributions.
I make patreon contributions on a monthly recurring basis for about six of my favorite YouTube news vlogs but I am not made of money. And I contribute here on most FR fundraisers.
Sad how the free press has been lost. I am of the opinion the first amendment protections afforded the mainstream media need to be done away with.
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I’ve added NYT, WaPo, HuffPo, Buzzfeed, and their fellow travelers to my do-not-read list. If I see a link to one, I do not follow it.
Can’t remember last time I read a story on one of those sites that was actually both meaningful and true, so it’s no loss.
“I’ve added NYT, WaPo, HuffPo, Buzzfeed, and their fellow travelers to my do-not-read list. If I see a link to one, I do not follow it.”
yes, I don’t read their SH#! either.
Total fabrications and lies. #FAKENEWS
I do post on it though. Trying to get others to wake up to the total corruption and associated propaganda.
Excellent article. So how much are the fake news posters making posting Fake News on Free Republic?
Are they paid by the post or by the hits or a combination of both?
Great analysis.
Spot on.
Off topic question. Went to research something found in a WaPo article, tried to get on Nachumlist. Anybody know what happened to him/her? Where research went? According to twitter, he/she hasn’t posted since December. Last notification I received from FR was Jan 2016. So much research! Would love to know if anyone downloaded.
“I’ve added NYT, WaPo, HuffPo, Buzzfeed, and their fellow travelers to my do-not-read list.”
While I don’t have an explicit list, I’ve found over the last few weeks that I quit going to those sites because they publish nothing but lies dressed up as news and if you’ve read one fake Trump/Russian conspiracy story, you’ve read them all, and reading any more is a complete waste of time.
I’ve also noticed that the only commenters remaining at WaPo are virulently ignorant and hateful Progs who post short, vituperative rants full of scatological references, insults, and profanity. WaPo is a now a total cesspool of fake news that seems to appeal only to the nastiest and stupidest ignoramuses.
I’m not kidding, and don’t consider what I just wrote to be over the top in any way. Anyone who has recently been to WaPo knows what I mean.
The same year Bezos bought WAPO, which was going under, he received a $600 million contract from the CIA for ‘Cloud Services’. That is not a coincidence.
Amazon has bever been wildly profitable. It was 11 years in operation before it experienced a full year of profit and that profit was shaky, quite marginal.
Bezos did not get to be a gazillionaire by selling other’s people stuff. He got it because Wall St. networks were told to buy his stock. The Wall St. players that propped up AMZN got their funds indirectly from ‘liquidity facilities’ of the Federal Reserve The Fed created the digital money units in their computers and electronically transferred the digi-dollars to members to pass on to other members, especially fronts for the CIA.
Bezos is a good salesman but he’s not that good. He’s a CIA-Wall St. creation. WAPO is now a CIA mouthpiece to sow fake news, disinformation, and propaganda.
Ping.
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Looks like the domain expired and is now owned by a domain squatter. There are archives of the site at the Wayback Machine at Archive.org. Stick Nachum.com into there and play around.
A very useful tool.
Bookmark
Thanks. Will try it. I was on his Nachum ping list on FR for years. Wonder what happened.
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