This is the stuff I'm a doomer about. Real journalism takes time - even a quick, original 700-word story requires a lot of legwork, relationships, etc.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
"Journalism...is built on the economics of attention"
Facts are boring. Conspiracy theories are exhilarating. Besides, fact checks are happening in spaces where the lie consumers aren't. No Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, NY Post, WSJ oped consumer is reading Politifact or Kessler. JFK is alive, after all.
Facts are boring. Conspiracy theories are exhilarating. Besides, fact checks are happening in spaces where the lie consumers aren't. No Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, NY Post, WSJ oped consumer is reading Politifact or Kessler. JFK is alive, after all.
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For every Elon Musk there's a Mackenzie Scott or Mark Cuban. Still rich & powerful, yes, but also hands-off patrons?
People are gravitating towards “news” outlets that create content that fits their ideological prejudices, and is light on facts.
https://youtu.be/NNco4dayC1M
"Facts are boring for stupid people." There, fixed it for you.
Belief and conspiracy theory have displaced the actual desire to know what is real and what is not in far too many.
Hard days ahead.
because who wants to lose money in the mad dash to the ad engagement trough by taking the time!
I recall the Churchill aphorism.....America will eventually correct itself, after footfalls in all directions.
el problemo es capitalismo.
If they want sensationalism it exists they just won’t do it - they won’t report the crimes of the powerful white men
Democracy was fun while it lasted.
They think he's entertainment.
~ Orson Welles
"That's entertainment"
~ Bobcat Goldthwait
Almost everything in the US is on a short-term timeframe: profits, political and business decisions, food, etc.
This is why issues are advanced in terms of how combatants feel. Not think. 👁️
The days of Walter Cronkite have devolved into a culture of TikTok.
I too am sick of the "views media" and its stars, but journalism and the news media are filled with honest working people doing their best to serve their neighbours.
These clowns claiming legacy media is "dead" AREN'T JOURNALISTS.
Unfortunately it's happening at a time when the whole of human society must pull together to save our dying ecosystem. We don't have time to watch them crash and burn.
Side note: preordered your new book!
Jefferson first observed it during his administration. He wouldn't read them today. I don't.
"Attention economy"
Short Attention Span Theatre
https://bsky.app/profile/midimyers.com/post/3lerwvucop22r
On Bluesky I’m free to read sources that I trust. Over there the owners decide what I see.
I agree this time is a little different (the slop mascarades as real) but have we not solved most of this problem before, and how?
They consume but don't invest, taking their supply for granted, while the snows shrink ... and shrink...
And once "free" truth is gone...?
It creates video bibliographies that serve as a proof-of-work tool, and differentiate the hunters from the scavengers. Also differentiates humans from LLMs.
https://austingmackell.medium.com/how-to-prove-youre-not-a-robot-fab1e255a6b6
Create a Bar for journalists, to rescind licenses based on ethics and integrity.
No journalistic enterprise can be owned, they must operate not for profit.
Opinions limited to a portion of the news programming.
My grandad published his town's newspaper. He knew everybody. People would talk to him. The value of real journalism is the person creating original work that started with an idea and a blank page.
The right-wing billionaires have been buying up all the media now over the last 4 years and all now can spread a lie faster than ANY fact to counter it!
Maga is going to get crushed by Musk and Trump, then they will get it! But far too late!
When Newspapers like NYT became basically political shill operations.
Also when TV became 24/7 arguing talking heads.
Also Fox News.
It's not coal mining but it requires more work than "BREAKING: Some shit I stole from CNN"
This is the challenge. Pundits query where the Democrats, their messaging, & & their candidates failed.
There was no failure. All of the above could dent the onslaught of the Reputinikkklan tsunami of lies
The TRUTH is fukN riveting!
Haul MAGATS to the edge of a cliff and debate gravity.
I would like an environment in which people can have a free exchange of ideas without descending into name calling. A ban on ad hominem attacks would be good, though I have /1
As for revenue, I think the model should be that the content provider should be able to charge a small fee for access to an external source. I'm thinking pennies, or fractions of a penny. The user must be in control of costs incurred. But that gives content providers /2
I hate this medium because I can't express a coherent thought in the space allowed. But I love this medium because I can see the thoughts and /3
Clothing
Housing
Education
Food
All else is frivolous abuse.
But keep ignoring the truth.
Maybe an unofficial process? Like, we all vote on the worst "journalist" of the year and then we tar and feather them.
It’s not a great result but you’re the cause of it, not us.