Tag: Fairness Doctrine
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No mystery
Nieman has an article on a nonprofit local news startup in Wichita. It’s failing quickly, and the reasons are not mysterious. 1. The Wichita paper was a branch of a more successful paper in KC, and the management in KC thought they should be handled the same way. I’ve lived in both cities. Wichita is…
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Profit leads to sanity
Via Variety, Scripps-Howard is laying off a large part of its “journalists”, along with everyone else in the deservedly dying “news” biz. = = = = = START QUOTE: “Amidst an already difficult linear television advertising marketplace, many brands and agencies have decided that advertising around national news is just too risky for them given…
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We’re supposed to waste our emotions
As usual we have dozens of overdoses every day, some fatal. There are two responses. Dark humor and caring. Dark humor is winning, as more and more people realize that caring is a fraud. Media and rulers want us to CARE about everything so they can feed our caring with solutions that make things worse.…
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Bankruptcy is the solution.
Denyse comments on the latest evidence that “science” has totally abandoned science for politics. SciAm outright endorsed Harris instead of Trump, AFTER FIRMLY SUPPORTING WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY DID IN 2020. This is the exact opposite of the “independent” activists, who worked hard to oppose WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY DID, and now are universally working FOR Trump.…
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Real reporting
Greenwald is probably the closest thing to objective in today’s media. He’s clearly on Trump’s side now but can’t stop being fair-minded. His piece on last night’s debate started with a wandering tour of the venue by his reporter Michael Tracy, who did some REAL journalism. He showed us what was happening among the media…
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Got it right finally!
Stoller provides an informative history of the Section 230 exemption, which was finally knocked down this week by a circuit court decision. Section 230 was ALWAYS wrong. The distinction between a publisher and a carrier is perfectly clear if you understand what Press Freedom means. The standard misconception is that a publisher is free to…
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Democracy exists, but only…
I often say that “democracy” is a meaningless word. It doesn’t exist and can’t exist. Trying for more precision… If the word means that decisions are formed by negative feedback, sensing the will of many people, then democracy does happen in some situations, but not governments. Competitive businesses MUST satisfy a large enough number of…
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Credit where due
Relentlessly pursuing the Fairness Doctrine! I had the annual Medicare Wellness Visit this week. It’s clear that Kaiser Permanente is trying to restore some of the trust they violently threw away in 2020, plus even a bit more. Long before the holocaust they had a ‘mandate’ that aggravated me. They wouldn’t let me renew the…
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Perfection
This podcast by Gallup is PERFECT. They’re discussing the sins and virtues of media, both traditional and social. They get EVERYTHING right. They grasp the vast sins of the media, and they grasp the needs and desires of real people. They don’t softpedal or downplay anything. They don’t pretend that media used to be better.…
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Who are they talking to?
Repooflicans are returning to Reagan-era slogans or even Truman-era slogans. Who are they talking to? Nobody under 60 even knows what a commie is. I suppose they’re talking to my generation, but we don’t need any training or reinforcement. Most of us are still watching MSNBC/FOX, getting our daily dose of the Good Old Stuff.…
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Deeeee licious
Love love love the smell of unemployed “journalists”. Latest example out of thousands:Axios is firing 10% of its monsters, citing a “volatile media environment.” Translation of “volatile media environment”: Customers finally got tired of being punched in the face. Customers got tired of seeing nothing but fear and panic, with far less than zero factual…
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Why the shift?
Last week I was thinking about the universal convergence of former activists against Trump’s holocaust. All of them in my circle have now become Trump cultists. I remembered that Vietnam protesters DIDN’T flip. After the war was done we moved into normal life concerns, but none of us fell in love with LBJ or Nixon.…
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Journalism is a cult.
After trying to read more weirdly lunatic shit from NiemanLab, I reached a conclusion. Journalism isn’t entirely crazy, it’s a high-status cult like Scientology. The members live in a completely isolated bubble of thought, surrounded by their fellow cultists and hearing only their fellow cultists. Reprint of a more general version from 2017, which isn’t…
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Loss of filtering
In former times, news and entertainment media served as a noise filter for both money swindlers and political swindlers. They devoted considerable time to dramatizing scams. The Fairness Doctrine REQUIRED media to skip partisanship and pay attention to reality. Frank Edwards, the best newsman of that era, did the best job of filtering political noise.…
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