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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMedia Congloms are SUFFERING. SUFFERING, I tell you! They need HELP!
So Biden's presiding over the fastest economic recovery in modern history.
Unemployment numbers have reached a 50-year low.
The supply chain is recovering faster than experts would have believed possible.
Vaccination rates continue going up, new treatment drugs are close to being presented for approval, and other good Covid developments are happening every day.
This is JUST TERRIBLE!
TERRIBLE, I TELL YOU!
What is a poor media mogul to do?
During the tenure of [Redacted], most media companies achieved record ratings, earnings, and audiences. The nation - and the world - were riveted by the ongoing horror show, and the media was dutifully covering every new catastrophe, every tragedy, every grotesque distortion of good in 24/7 close-up detail.
And the addicts responded. We clicked, we watched, we commented, we shared, we passed it along, we discussed, we subscribed, we shoveled the cash their way, directly and indirectly.
Now, like the corner drug dealer when a new street clinic opens up down the block and suddenly traffic is down, the media outlets are frantic - where are their customers?!? They have PRODUCT to move! Bottom lines to meet!! Higher-up bosses to please - bosses who aren't afraid to decimate subordinates who can't deliver the eyeballs and the clicks.
Fuck journalism, they need NUMBERS!
And good economic news, effective pandemic strategies, foreign policy progress, etc., don't deliver for the junkies they've trained us to be.
The only solution I know is the one we can't possibly implement: Break up the monopolies, re-implement an updated Fairness Doctrine, take control of the commons' airwaves, broadband, etc., back into the hands of an agency with a mission to ensure they operate to the public good.
Failing that, we're stuck on the rollercoaster, and we're running outta vomit wipes.
wearily,
Bright
Mme. Defarge
(8,036 posts)I logged in to rec. this!
pecosbob
(7,542 posts)I've been brigaded here a few times for complaining about posters linking right-wing spin articles from Politico and The Hill.
LoisB
(7,216 posts)scandals and rifts and something that bleeds.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Iread 2 & that's it ! du is the main !!!
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)Just please ignore him so we can get out of our life!
Dive deep into healthcare needs for those that are too young for Medicare but make too much to qualify for Medicaid. Especially in states that didnt expand it.
Or, Dive deep into Wall Street corruption.
This is not hard but they are failing as the fourth estate.
ShazamIam
(2,575 posts)Democratic elected and of course good old liberals.
Hekate
(90,755 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)The purpose of Cable Noise Drama Infotainment Channels is to fill airtime with talking heads blathering about this or that between ads for drugs we never knew we needed.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. I know that some here seem to hang on every word or gotcha statement by this or that particular personality be it Joy, or Ari, or Rachel, or Brianna, or whoever, but they are simply laughing all the way to the bank while those that watch them get nothing but higher blood pressure from the manufactured outrage.
Best thing to do is to turn them off and leave them off, never looking back.
TygrBright
(20,763 posts)Communications, public awareness, a free press are all part of maintaining democracy.
Vast profits for media moguls, however, have nothing to do with maintaining democracy.
Apparently, we can't have both.
We better start choosing.
gloomily,
Bright