Posted on 10/15/2020 3:54:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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.
Media ping.
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 used to say, all the way back in the early 2000’s:
“We defeated the Soviet Union. Then we became them.”
How prescient I was.
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.
WOW! I love your idea.
Communists are very patient. They see the battle in terms of generations and not months or even years.
More like decades.
And I don’t know when they started working in earnest here but boy they had a lot of success by the 2000s. You are right.
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.
:^)
When I write, I ruthlessly edit myself, again and again.
The goal is to get any piece I write, down to one sentence.
This time I succeeded.
I’d like to see some form of “trust busting” where each media outlet can have one owner and one owner can have one media outlet.
Oprah wants a magazine? OK. No TV show.
Disney wants to make movies? OK. Nothing else.
etc.
The idea that 6 big media companies basically control all “messaging” is just awful. There should be about 50,000 individual owners controlling the messaging and they should all be struggling to product a product that gets good ratings.
Over a century ago. Really got rolling strong with the relocation of The Frankfurt School Communists to Columbia University in the early/mid-1930s.
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.
Actually, that's a nice side-effect of me crossposting Larry's stuff here. :)
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.
Agreed.
Will never happen.
You guys are the best analysts around
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