Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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Thresholds
It’s suddenly fashionable to say that AI now makes all truth impossible. ABSOLUTE RAW STINKING BULLSHIT. Visual “news” has ALWAYS been fake because “NEWS” HAS ALWAYS BEEN FAKE. The whole purpose of adding photos and engravings to “news” was to make fakery more credible. The first movie newsreel by Pathe in 1895 was faked in…
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Good!
The agency that runs PBS and NPR is closing down. GOOD. PBS and NPR lost their public purpose 50 years ago. PBS switched from education to entertainment. NPR switched from unbiased to pure DNC. Government is supposed to serve ALL the people, not just the members of one party or one elite class. Education was…
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Misses part of the history
Interesting article about Craigslist and its effect on newspapers. Craigslist is generally credited for taking the important classified ad business from papers. The article gives an insight into the founding principles of Craigslist. But the article misses the earlier part of the decline. Craiglist was simply an online replacement for free Shopper’s Edge and similar…
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More non-news from “news”
I keep watching to see if any of the powerful institutions have figured out what’s wrong. So far I’m not seeing any understanding here in US. Mexico and Canada have OFFICIALLY figured it out and started doing the right thing, which is the FDR thing. Will we ever get there? I suppose it’s possible. Until…
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Lowe’s perfect word
The “two” “sides” are pointlessly arguing about the network decision to drop Colbert. One side says the network was cowardly, the other side says it was brave. (I hardly know who the dude is, since I haven’t watched any TV since 2010 and never watched the late night “comedy” shows either on TV or on…
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Fordist wins
Interesting article on local newspapers that still succeed. The top 25 by circulation, mainly digital now, include a few in the expected places like LA and Chicago, but the list is dominated by much smaller cities. The author notes that several of those smaller city papers are owned by the Newhouse chain, including Harrisburg. When…
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Starting to do the right thing!
NPR and PBS are appealing to the public to support them, now that congress has cut off their subsidies. The basic fact, ignored by both “sides” to maintain their shared lies, is that NPR and PBS were already commercial, mainly supported by advertising and pledges. Only 15% of NPR’s money was from the government. I…
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Real newspaper
I trust the local Facebook group for news because it gives me NEWS, not a batch of meaningless political gossip. It tells me what’s happening here and now, not what DNC thinks. It also provides some damn good entertainment!
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Mexico does FDR!
Mexico is getting SERIOUS about implementing the New Deal. I haven’t been looking much at other countries; somebody on Substack mentioned it. I googled it and found very little coverage in any US “news” sources; it was discussed in a few tech insider publications. The protections were signed into law last month after a year…
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Were books better?
Literary types are always lecturing the unwashed masses about the critical importance of BIG HEAVY BOOKS. If you aren’t reading BIG HEAVY BOOKS you’re illiterate. I used to read lots of books, including BIG HEAVY ones. Did I get more benefit from them than I’m getting currently from social media? Not really. Through the 70s…
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NextDoor tries to reform
The doorbell net NextDoor recognizes that it has become a gossip and bitching party line. It’s trying to add more of the services that people need, services that USED to be provided by local radio and TV and newspapers. I signed up for NextDoor in 2018, but quickly realized it was mostly groundless suspicions, not…
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Clarified
One of the big fact-stoppers has decided to quit using misinformation and disinformation to stop facts. They say the words formerly clarified things but don’t clarify now. In reality, everyone understands CLEARLY now that information means a perfect copy-paste of DNC talking points, while misinformation means an imperfect copy-paste of DNC talking points. The terms…
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Why people trust facebook groups
Recent polls by Pew and others agree that most people in the western countries totally distrust the regular media. Most people rely on less formal sources like local facebook groups. Fine example yesterday. A serial arsonist was working HARD. He started six fires in one hour around 5AM, then went west of the river and…
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Spoiled brats
“Journalists” are worried about Google’s new chatbot. = = = = = START BRAT: The consequences for the internet as we know it will be profound. For news publishers, they have already been profound. Industry executives are quietly sounding the alarm about “Google Zero,” a term popularized by The Verge’s Nilay Patel to describe the…
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Newspapers were snacks
Via Nieman: A media company in Belgium is trying a weird radical sci-fi method to attract PAID readers under age 65. The media company clearly finds this weird approach distasteful but feels it’s needed if they want to survive. = = = = = START QUOTE: Mediahuis carried out qualitative research to find out what…
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