every media company's leadership has made the decision of 'we'd rather lose money chasing after the RW viewer that already has 1000x more options than even pretend to appeal to the untapped left leaning audience' and it honestly makes no sense to me. especially in a country as polarized as ours - ThreadSky

whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social • 6 days ago

every media company's leadership has made the decision of 'we'd rather lose money chasing after the RW viewer that already has 1000x more options than even pretend to appeal to the untapped left leaning audience' and it honestly makes no sense to me. especially in a country as polarized as ours

Reposted from whoops, excuse me. oh man, my bad.

i just can't believe there isn't a single TV/money guy who sees the herding of media on the right and thinks to themselves "huh, sure seems like there is an untapped market opportunity here", but i guess that's post-material politics for ya.

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fsobrat.bsky.social•6 days ago

The left wing audience isn’t untapped. There’s myriad left wing podcasts and websites and magazines out there

The issue is that audience isn’t very big and often aren’t looking for accuracy in reporting so much as dopamine hits. They don’t want to read an article that tells them they’re wrong

fsobrat.bsky.social•6 days ago

So it just isn’t an option media orgs with a commitment to accuracy and journalistic ethics

Same reason the the right loves all their media orgs that just lie all the time, and why Fox had to scramble to up their lying when Newsmax threatened them by lying more

jameshart.bsky.social•6 days ago

News stories out there proclaiming Gutfeld the ‘new king of late night’ with his 2 million viewers. Networks: ‘the left doesn’t watch TV’. Meanwhile Jon Oliver is pulling in 4.1 million viewers. Conclusion: the left doesn’t watch TV *that features ads*.

whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social•6 days ago

but is seemingly more willing to pay subscription fees/patreons/etc. which again, makes it crazy that like, CNN tried to launch their CNN+ subscription service while *running to the right* and then were shocked it failed.

davidjorgonson.bsky.social•6 days ago

They're chasing state favors, including for other parts of large corporate conglomerates.
Democrats have explicitly said they won't favor supporters over opponents. But Rs say they will.

whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social•6 days ago

i mean, maybe it will help stave off any malicious prosecution *for now*, but i don't think any outlet that had historically appeared even vaguely to the left of fox is gonna get any favors. like, they all still hate wapo/nyt/cnn despite how hard theyve run right since 2020.
https://bsky.app/profile/whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social/post/3liz5kbgouk2b

davidjorgonson.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah, they may not get what they hope for. Especially since con media are still whipping hate against MSM

whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social•6 days ago

and they have no incentive to stop, so why would they? especially when the MSM is clearly trying to cannibalize con media viewers.

davidjorgonson.bsky.social•6 days ago

Bingo. More they suck up, the more they're competitors

nateb.bsky.social•6 days ago

I didn't realize huge revenue difference in RW the court exposed that Alex Jones was raking in millions from selling supplements.

Is there a left version of pedaling gold coins, meme coins, and vitamins?

kirblar024.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes, but it's the The Producers stuff with perennial failing campaigns (Nina Turner, George Santos until he accidentally won, etc.) - the Nigerian Scam email effect weeds out way more liberals- https://www.tomvanheuvelen.com/asocialblog/2020/10/1/are-partisans-smarter-im-not-totally-convinced

nateb.bsky.social•6 days ago

There's obviously a left-coded grifty market. Like Goop, etc. But that's not as directly attached to the political content.

whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social•6 days ago

yeah, grifting cons is just easier because they like to be obviously, cynically, and condescendingly pandered to. slap a jesus or american flag on something and they'll slurp it up like pigs at a trough

grifting libs is more targeted like newfangled health food/equipment and artsy/shop local shit

nateb.bsky.social•6 days ago

It'd be darkly hilarious if the tipping point towards a dystopian future came down to the profit margins of vegan leather vs "liberal tears" coffee mugs.

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