@Martymacmarty Interview
Added 2020-07-08 07:22:00 +0000 UTC
Comments
I liked the question Marty raised about the US media being so coordinated. I think part of it is that many of the smaller newspapers and local channels are owned by the same couple of companies. There have been examples of the exact same script being read in multiple markets on the 6 o'clock news, stuff like that. They have all been losing money since the internet got going, but also because they are owned by private equity groups that want to slash budgets so they have 30% profit margins. So there are very few actual reporters, because that is expensive and doesn't always lead to the the juicy headlines which attract advertisers. You get info-tainment instead of news. Why does ESPN have all these talking head shows all day long? Because there isn't enough actual sports to show people 24 hours a day, or it would cost them more to broadcast that. A couple guys in suits screaming at eachother in makeup is cheaper. The rest of journalism has adopted that model. I watched all the Democrat debates this past year (like a sucker 'cuz I never even got a chance to vote - our primary has been delayed to August) and it reminds me of watching the Olympics. The music, the graphics, the personal interest stories, something about the tone of it. And then you have the aggregators like Huffington Post, whose business model was literally to steal stories from other sites. And stories being written by computer programs. So there is less and less actual information, controlled by a smaller number of people who all went to college together. And I don't think it's neccessarily a political or revolutionary conspiracy. They like these stark good guy vs. bad guy narratives because it fits better in the First Take kind of programing. Maybe there are some people trying to manufacture consent by showing the police shooting coverage so much, or maybe it's just the old "if it bleeds, it leads" kind of journalism. It can have the same effect without the conspiratorial motive. But if I were going to look for a conspiracy, I'd be looking at the corporations who advertise on these news platforms. The threat of losing ad revenue is what makes them censor or control what they report. And all these multinational corps love BLM for some reason. I saw something the other day about how twitter has been losing advertisers and I wonder if that is why they have started banning all these people. That's something that isn't coming from the universities or critical theorists and I wish more people would look there.
Hikikamore
2020-07-27 18:38:47 +0000 UTCHave the Good Ol Boyz listened to the podcast “It Could Happen Here”? Seems right up everyone’s alley. Was put together a year ago, and is downright prophetic.
Holly X
2020-07-12 22:44:36 +0000 UTC
