How did the tech industry get so powerful? It's simple. There are major media outlets that will simply copy paste anything they say - ThreadSky

edzitron.com • 157 days ago

How did the tech industry get so powerful? It's simple. There are major media outlets that will simply copy paste anything they say

Reposted from NPR

Netflix says more than 200 countries tuned into the "Beyoncé Bowl" and its two NFL games. We may just be starting to learn what that ultimately means for the future of television and sports media.

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minerva1.bsky.social•157 days ago

The stuff tech barons have gotten away with over the years is shocking. Worse than Wall Street.

droseph.bsky.social•157 days ago

This recent article by Will Tavlin on Netflix and the streaming industry for N+One Mag is excellent

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/

droseph.bsky.social•157 days ago

rubyji.bsky.social•156 days ago

Same as they do for cops. Apparently stenography generates more ad revenue than reporting does.

spicy-orange.bsky.social•156 days ago

https://www.nfl.com/news/super-bowl-xli-broadcast-in-232-countries-09000d5d80022760

philhamm.bsky.social•156 days ago

Those media outlets uncritically copy/paste anything from the tech and alt energy lobbies.

mentoch.bsky.social•157 days ago

There's no way you can legally purchase Netflix in 200 countries.

smellycandle42.bsky.social•157 days ago

There aren't even 200 countries in the UN! They would have to be padding out the list with stuff like American Samoa and British Virgin Islands, and even that is unrealistic

olieliminated.bsky.social•157 days ago

Depending on what count you use, there aren’t even 200 countries.

madradhu.garbage.computer•157 days ago

they lied

mentoch.bsky.social•157 days ago

What countries are the UN hiding from us?!?!

bxe123.bsky.social•157 days ago

Utopia and Fruitopia.

mentoch.bsky.social•157 days ago

Hollow earth Nazi Antarctic base

bxe123.bsky.social•157 days ago

They love Bey.

xkingrune.bsky.social•157 days ago

Medias , medias, medias… and a bit of incompetence on top

saveourfarms.bsky.social•157 days ago

Inhabitants of the Moon and Mars also tuned in, truly incredible

matthewdowsmith.bsky.social•157 days ago

They have invented broadcast television again, only now we pay for it, and it's more expensive than cable ever was.

egrattan.bsky.social•156 days ago

Broadcast didn’t go anywhere and the game was on broadcast in respective markets.

billwx.bsky.social•157 days ago

I refused to spend Christmas Day watching football, especially when the NFL has become so greedy.

falafelbandit.bsky.social•157 days ago

Do VPN’s get counted twice?

cbobda.bsky.social•157 days ago

Only MAGA is angry

intothejunction.bsky.social•157 days ago

The highest ratings ever posted on the moon for an NFL telecast, sources say

agilbertson.bsky.social•156 days ago

Number of countries is a very suspect metric anyway. Why not say how many households watched? I'm sure Netflix *has* that metric. That they're not sharing it makes it seem like they found that number disappointing.

charlesnorwood.bsky.social•157 days ago

"How many countries are there in the world? There's like a thousand, right? We'll just say 200 of them watched, that should be believable."

gammarayghoul.bsky.social•157 days ago

Netflix should name over 200 countries and cause an international incident.

kemaiku.bsky.social•156 days ago

"More than 200 countries", 194 countries in the world, good trick.

spicy-orange.bsky.social•156 days ago

https://www.nfl.com/news/super-bowl-xli-broadcast-in-232-countries-09000d5d80022760

jamescalbraith.co.uk•156 days ago

And Netflix is not available in 4 of them. Unless North Koreans were VPN-ing to see Beyonce.

ryanbonick.com•157 days ago

what does “a country tuned in” mean lmfao. one person in a country watches the nfl and it’s a big deal?

360barking.bsky.social•157 days ago

There talking like its the first worldwide broadcast ever

mrsdewinter.bsky.social•157 days ago

Elvis says, "Aloha, Via Satellite!"

joelorenzo.bsky.social•157 days ago

Yeah, weird flex.

maniccage.bsky.social•156 days ago

We had VPNs hitting us from Thailand, Russia, Bulgaria

superfx.bsky.social•156 days ago

When newsrooms continuously get gutted for 30+ years because of a business model that is no longer relevant, the people left are either overworked or underqualified. And that's how you get articles that might as well just be a press release.

We stay losing from every angle.

turbowombat.bsky.social•157 days ago

In North Korea you are required to watch decadent imperialist halftime show 150 times a day.

romabysen.bsky.social•157 days ago

Oh yeah, all those countries other than the US who cares about the super bowl. Might even be as many as 10.

heyben.com•157 days ago

huh at least 200 people watched

dialogcrm.bsky.social•156 days ago

I'm a minority but I hate watching any kind of sport on TV of any kind. I am very active and so for me sport is something I do - not something I watch.

I cancelled my Netflix sub after 7 years. There is better content for me out there. I am a movie buff so some invented game show is not for me.

warmcoffeebreath.bsky.social•157 days ago

Content doesn’t matter when the goal is just to get ads in front of people

historiken.bsky.social•157 days ago

kinda like cops, then

dnezzysmith.bsky.social•157 days ago

You'd have a better case if it wasn't missing the first two words.

personandstuff.bsky.social•157 days ago

No, I'm sure 200 million people watched Red One.

matthewkeys.net•156 days ago

Okay but I’m not seeing the fault in what Netflix is claiming — are you suggesting subscribers from 200 countries didn’t watch some of the halftime performance?

davidrvetter.bsky.social•157 days ago

Well, you see, the richer and more powerful a corporation is, the more truthful their statements are.

captainlinguini.bsky.social•157 days ago

All the best legacy media institutions, reduced to mimeography.

kevdog.bsky.social•157 days ago

"Okay, one dude in Lesotho tuned in. Check another country off the list."

ezrarising.bsky.social•157 days ago

NPR has been.... the downward spiral is concerning lol

davesnothere24.bsky.social•156 days ago

Of all the ways to find out my application to form the nation of Davesnothereistan has been recognized internationally.

hulet.tech•156 days ago

Netflix is now banned in China for officially recognizing the existence of Taiwan

electricrabbit.bsky.social•157 days ago

And in 196+ of those countries, the viewers were three fifths of fuckall percent of the populace.

jonhalling.bsky.social•156 days ago

I feel like this would say 200 if it was 200 for one thing......

jalapenopants18.bsky.social•157 days ago

I also hate that so much of the MO of the tech industry is just telling people information with 0 paperwork or data to back it up, this forces people to investigate and hopefully get some insider leak/info, or just take everything at face value

alexanderlambrt.bsky.social•157 days ago

and by the time that publication's reporter has opened their first browser tab to research, everyone else has already posted a copy and paste job 😞

ctc3d.bsky.social•156 days ago

National Puppet Radio.

cointelpronoun.bsky.social•157 days ago

I don't know for sure but I wonder if it's a situation where they feel insecure about how smart they are, the person they're talking to seems smart but their eyes glaze over when they're talking about the latest thing and they don't want to admit they don't get it so they just fawn and stenograph

isibb.bsky.social•157 days ago

Doing PR for a company like Netflix must be so awesome. You don’t even pitch, you just send out your release and 40 people print it as if it’s reported news.

edzitron.com•157 days ago

yeah startups you are continually having to justify their existence but at Netflix/meta/openai’s stage it’s a fart and then they are the biggest most hugest and most special of all things

theblackcourant.org•156 days ago

Netflix said all 200 countries live in Canada that's why you don't know them

acinixys.bsky.social•156 days ago

So what they are saying is that 199 countries have 1 American in them

And that 1 guy watched the NFL

Bravo Netflix, excellent fake data reporting

endora-bullshit.bsky.social•156 days ago

created new countries just to show their fidelity to american media

murderxbryan.bsky.social•157 days ago

Yes, we have the exact numbers, no, you cannot have them but suffice to say they are muuuuuuch higher than you think they are

rabbitwitch.bsky.social•156 days ago

2 billion people watched red notice

uhh they al live in uhhhh canada

no not vancouver more around qubec

edzitron.com•157 days ago

Why don't we want to share them now? Simple. We're talking to our lawyers to see the legal limits of how we can rig them

sparra.bsky.social•157 days ago

It’s not securities fraud, it’s using a proprietary definition of the word “watched” that we cannot share with anybody

andylevy.net•157 days ago

the real numbers are so powerful that they would kill anyone who saw them unless they were specially trained the way our executives are

wood-mousse.bsky.social•157 days ago

This is what they’re doing in Severance

craigwinston.bsky.social•157 days ago

https://youtu.be/Qklvh5Cp_Bs?si=pCDwF7fM-ea1syO0

parisdog.bsky.social•157 days ago

this sounds like xenu level power

chrisgeidner.bsky.social•157 days ago

You need glasses.

posindustries.bsky.social•156 days ago

Why?

d4c3.bsky.social•157 days ago

'Buddy, they don't even let *me* fuck the numbers'

jjo42069.bsky.social•157 days ago

Yes we have exact numbers but we will say something in the most opaque way that doesn’t explicitly constitute fraud against our shareholders

psgjr.bsky.social•156 days ago

The numbers are so big, we don’t want to say them out loud.

ronnpiano.bsky.social•157 days ago

NPR has been especially egregious as of late.

restlessjack.bsky.social•157 days ago

Hell, "The 'Beyoncé Bowl' halftime show was a massive hit for Netflix. The football was too" is one of the laziest headlines I've seen in a while. Just no attempt to pretend is a real article.

facedog.bsky.social•157 days ago

Did he get it roughly right in Flat Earth News, Ed? Laziness being exploited rather than conspiracies to pushing an agenda?

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