Free of mid-bending Republican talking points

[gotsnowgotslush]

Free of mid-bending Republican talking points


Billionaires that support the Supreme Yellow Orange tRump that sits in the Oval office, have decided to purchase struggling print media publications, and kill them. Cross-over interwebs news media sites suffered the same treatment.


We may soon be enjoying a publication that was sent to the guillotine, but won a reprieve.

WNYC in New York, WAMU in Washington DC, and KPCC in Southern California, has banded together to bring some of those sites back from the dead. The three stations are acquiring the assets of Gothamist and some of its associated sites, including LAist, DCist, and DNAInfo. The deal was spearheaded by Gothamist founders Jake Dobkin and Jen Chung, and is being funded by two anonymous donors who have contributed an undisclosed sum to acquire the brands. As part of the deal, the archives of both sites will remain online. Gothamist, led by Dobkin and Chung, will begin publishing new stories this spring.


A nearly century-old radio station like WNYC swooping in to save a group of sites that helped write the rules of online journalism does contain a hint of irony. But when you consider these radio stations have managed to weather technological changes from the transistor to the television, the idea that they might be able to help younger newsrooms navigate the choppy waters of the digital revolution—while benefitting from their digital native audiences—doesn't sound so crazy after all.


https://www.wired.com/story/gothamist-dcist-laist-return-wnyc-public-radio/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Will Gothamist return , Spring 2018 ?

March 13, 2018


Studies by the Pew Research Center and the Knight Foundation have shown strong links between consumption of local news and civic engagement: those who are more likely to read about local news are also more likely to vote in local elections.

So preserving local news platforms is important for our democracy—and I believe public media organizations are best equipped to do it. At NYPR, we don’t rely on advertisers alone. We’re supported by a diverse mix of funding streams—membership, sponsorship, and philanthropy—which allows us to be resilient in the face of a rapidly changing media landscape.

In fact, funding for our acquisition of Gothamist was provided by several generous people and institutions, including our station partners, supporter Josh Reznick, and a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. Meanwhile, the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, along with New York Public Radio Trustee Cynthia King Vance, has provided critical funding for the digital transformation of the WNYC newsroom, of which Gothamist will be an integral part. And in the week since we announced the acquisition, we’ve heard from dozens of listeners and donors who offered additional support.

The transition will take time and hard work—but I’m so excited for what the future holds. This partnership will allow us to fulfill our promise to the people of New York.

As we assemble a transition team for the first six months, we’ll include staffers from Gothamist and WNYC, who will work together to create a sustainable plan for the integration of our newsrooms. Their top priority will be to make sure this plan contributes to our broader organizational mission and goals, both internal and external: to create content that informs and inspires, to shine a light on the broad and diverse issues affecting our neighborhoods, to attract and support the best and brightest journalists in the world, and to serve as a beacon for media organizations everywhere.

This spring, we’ll be relaunching the new site at Gothamist.com

https://www.wnyc.org/story/nypr-and-gothamist-are-mission-save-local-news/

 

[Hypoxia]

Studies by the Pew Research Center and the Knight Foundation have shown strong links between consumption of local news and civic engagement: those who are more likely to read about local news are also more likely to vote in local elections.

This makes tons of sense. I can't CARE about my community if I don't KNOW about my community. And if I consume news from sources covering remote communities, I care about them, whether they impact me or not. I'd rather have the local edition.

I must know my precinct. If I don't know the local school issues, I'm unlikely to vote for school bonds, even though improved schools raise property values. Is an extra US$100 annual local tax worth boosting my selling price by $50k? Duh.

Tip O'Neill said, "All politics are local." All news is local, too; it puts you there. Too many of us are always put in big media cities. I don't really care about DC. It's not my home.

 

[urguyscott]

A combined TASS and Joseph Goebbels enterprise where free speech and press will be used as a door mat and lies and fake news and fake Hollywood reality court jesters and swamp monsters from the establishment of corrupt politicians and rich fat cats will be the heros of the snow flakes..

 

[Hypoxia]

A combined TASS and Joseph Goebbels enterprise where free speech and press will be used as a door mat and lies and fake news and fake Hollywood reality court jesters and swamp monsters from the establishment of corrupt politicians and rich fat cats will be the heros of the snow flakes..

Yes, FauxNewz and the Tromp Channel. I smell them from here. And Sinclair, which is already propagandizing on its stations. Stinky.

 

[urguyscott]

Do you really believe that CNN and MSNBC and Democracy Now are honest and not a bunch of brain dead anti freedom of speech and press snow flakes? Try something if you have the guts. Watch the news from Japan or Germany or England and compare it to the trash of fools we have in the states. Even FOXX spends more time on Washington and Hollywood (for the opposite reason of the others) than reporting on the world and country.

For example, today their was a bridge collapse in Florida where people were killed. FOXX did report on it, but CNN and MSNBC were talking about the fake Russian story on Trump and on the untrue or incomplete stories of the "student walk out." The reason is that the Democrats don't care about people's lives only if they can find a political agenda to twist into a story. You don't hear about the two million trees the dictator of China ordered destroyed, or the murders going on in South Africa or the collapse of Obama's dream government of Valenzuela and the people leaving the country and going to Columbia. The world is round and there is more to our country than Hollywood fakes and Washington snow flakes.

Buy a dictionary and look up words like "fair, unbiased, truth, freedom, and other unusual words that you don't understand. Also ask any of your dumb fakers if they know what the five W's are, how to name and triple your sources before quoting them, or any of the things they use to tell in Journalism classes.

You don't even know who the mouth piece of the Nazi Dictatorship is or what the trash lying communists propagandist sheet was in Russia. So I understand why my last went over your head. Or through it.

Please don't insult the American Press with another comic bunch of leftist Soros snow flakes. Unless you can find someone funnier and dumber than that Rachel guy on MSNBC. Now he/she is funny.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

yay

Gothamist is up, running, and gathering funding.

Gothamist
@Gothamist
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May 5

THANK YOU to everyone who donated or helped spread the word about our Kickstarter! It has now ended & we're happy to report that we not only met our goal, but more than doubled it. All because of you, we are the MOST FUNDED journalism Kickstarter in NYC and the entire U.S


This week's lunacy, and issues


http://gothamist.com/2018/05/04/extra_extra_3763.php

 

[phrodeau]

Mid-bending Republicans? That's an oxymoron. I've never known a Republican who can bend in the mid.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

gsgs comment- Union busting is a Republican hobby. Much energy and money has been expended to interfere with unions. Union-targeting legislation in nearly every state. "Right to Work" bills were introduced.


Hard-nosed billionaire businessman Joe Ricketts lost well over $100 million on the New York and Chicago neighborhood news site DNAinfo before he abruptly shut it down


Joe Ricketts held a threat over his employees. "Join a union, and I will kill everything."

Every lovely, informative, intelligent, and entertaining outlet was killed, because writers from Gothamist dared to join the writers union.


Gothamist was saved not by small donations, but by two individual donors writing very large checks to buy the property back from Joe Ricketts.


Gothamist and WNYC

WNYC’s resources aren’t bottomless, and Gothamist’s publisher, Jake Dobkin, would like to relaunch at a size closer to where the site was when it closed down, rather than going back to the days when it was a significantly smaller operation. That’s not easy because ad revenues at the site are almost certainly going to be substantially lower as part of WNYC than they were when Gothamist was an independent business. When you get rescued by WNYC, it turns out, you also have to adopt its strict internal controls on acceptable advertisers. Gothamist’s Kickstarter also acts as a proof of concept aimed at its overseers within WNYC. The more backers the site attracts, the more engaged its readers are shown to be, the more internal resources it’s likely to be able to unlock.

https://slate.com/business/2018/04/...-a-new-model-for-the-local-news-business.html

 

[Veroe]

Sorry wrong thread.

 

[FEELINGLUCKYPUNK]

I thought Bezos Soros, Bill Gates, Buffet nbd Zuckrbweg all vote Democrat.

 

[Hypoxia]

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Thanks, Ronnie and Shrub. It's been fun.

 

[ThatsTheGuy]

What's a Republican?