Media’s struggle to survive driven by ideological suicide

[SugarDaddy1]

Though no simple explanation exists for why traditional media are losing the struggle to survive in the digital era, much of the industry’s woes can be attributed to self-inflicted wounds.

Mass media production, for instance, taught audiences long ago that they don’t have to pay directly for the news. Who wants to shell out for information that will eventually appear elsewhere at no cost, whether on the radio, news aggregation websites, or televisions in public spaces? Not enough paying customers, that’s who.

Another problem, one that is quite possibly the main driver of the steady drumbeat of closures and firings, is the product itself. To be blunt: It’s not particularly good, it has not been particularly good for a long time, and it seems unlikely to improve any time soon.

There’s a larger conversation to be had regarding how best to keep the lights on in the era of free and instantaneous information. There’s also a more extensive conversation to be had regarding whether the press produces a product worthy of anyone’s money.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...gle-to-survive-driven-by-ideological-suicide/

 

[ll74]

That's a dumb article

 

[TastySuckToy]

Mainstream media continues to circle the toilet drain, and it can't happen fast enough. It along with other things like Hollywood will soon join the dead pile of centralized power structures, and good riddance.

 

[Rightguide]

That's a dumb article

It's a harbinger of things to come.

 

[DeluxAuto]

It's a harbinger of things to come.

You've been saying this since Obama hit your radar.

Has the harbinger bothered to show us things yet?

 

[ll74]

It's a harbinger of things to come.

It's a dumb article

 

[PaxNurgle]

Mainstream media continues to circle the toilet drain, and it can't happen fast enough. It along with other things like Hollywood will soon join the dead pile of centralized power structures, and good riddance.

Why is that "good?"

What will replace it?

Non-accredited self-proclaimed "Journalists" making up things and not fact-checking their sources and creating "News?" The problem is, this is what some people rely on to keep themselves informed- and wind up being misinformed, as a result (for example, half the sources the O.P. quotes fall into this category.)

When you get rid of MAIN-stream media, you replace it with EX-treme media. And the problem with EXtreme media is, they have neither the funds, the will, nor the desire to present facts or tell the truth, but rather, to spin facts, or invent facts, to further their agenda.

And obviously, some, like, well, YOU for example, cannot tell the difference. Or worse, deliberatly avoid mainstream media and seek out EXtreme media to justify their extreme- and unpopular (and categorically false) positions.

You have claimed the 2020 election was either "Rigged" or fraudulent. This has been debunked multiple times, not only by trusted media but by independant audits, who repeatedly found no evidence of it. But you continue to claim it is true despite all evidence to the contrary. Why? Because Extreme Media told you, and you sought out Extreme Media who told you what you wanted to hear, not what was the truth. And Extreme Media does not have an agenda to tell the truth! It has an agenda basically, (in this case) to promote a totalitarian and illiberal agenda, shamelessly back one political faction, that may not be acceptable to the mainstream.

 

[Chernosoth]

And trust. Corporate media lost the trust of the public.

 

[TastySuckToy]

And trust. Corporate media lost the trust of the public.

That the public ever trusted the corporate media in the first place is crazy.

As if bias, political motiviations, deceit, profiteering off of information control, ignorance or just being plain wrong are brand new concepts that never affected media sources until recently.

 

[HisArpy]

That the public ever trusted the corporate media in the first place is crazy.

As if bias, political motiviations, deceit, profiteering off of information control, ignorance or just being plain wrong are brand new concepts that never affected media sources until recently.

When you go back to the days of town criers you'll see where the trust aspect began. Town criers couldn't state their opinions, they could only shout proclamations that were issued and notices of events.

 

[ll74]

When you go back to the days of town criers you'll see where the trust aspect began. Town criers couldn't state their opinions, they could only shout proclamations that were issued and notices of events.

When media wasn't owned by large corporations, it was managed locally and more responsive to local and regional politics. Now only a few media companies own everything and politics are national and driven by the number of clicks.

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

That's a dumb article

You'd prefer the concept to appear at a practical level for discussion?

 

[ll74]

You'd prefer the concept to appear at a practical level for discussion?

What is being discussed? And how many other threads on the topic have been created in this forum?

In fact,. One just popped up today.

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

You asking me? I'm supposed to answer for everyone or just myself?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/10/21/eloise-page-cia-women/

 

[Veroe]

Cable news in general is the band playing on the deck of the titanic. The boat is already sinking. Outside barber shops , doctors offices, and airport lobbies only a shrinking few are watching anymore.

 

[ll74]

You asking me? I'm supposed to answer for everyone or just myself?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/10/21/eloise-page-cia-women/

I asked you what is being discussed....which means the current thread. The answer is nothing. The OP is a hit and run on every thread and the "discussion" always revolves around right wing talking points predicting the demise of "liberal media"

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

Jesus tapdancing Christ, I heard you the first time. Are you the one writing the article? Do you represent their employer?

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Jesus tapdancing Christ, I heard you the first time. Are you the one writing the article? Do you represent their employer?

You read it the first time....JFC

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

It gets the point across. I gave it a "thumbs up". You have to argue with everything?

 

[Fuzzy1975]

You have to argue with everything?

Pointing out factual errors is not arguing. We don't listen, nor talk here, the forum of communication used is writing. We read and write, simple.

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

You weren't the one who wrote it! I'm afraid you'll have to quit your day job as communist spy and downgrade to dysfunctional, gaslighting asshole.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

You weren't the one who wrote it! I'm afraid you'll have to quit your day job as communist spy and downgrade to dysfunctional, gaslighting asshole.

Have the guts to use the quote function. Christ what do you think this is, grade school?

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...gle-to-survive-driven-by-ideological-suicide/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/2923602/medias-descent-into-political-advocacy/

PRESIDENT BIDEN: Remember, in this timeframe, my son is either been deployed or is dying, and, and so it was and by the way, there were still a lot of people at the time when I got out of the Senate that were encouraging me to run in this period, except [President Obama]. I’m not — and not a mean thing to say. He just thought that [Hillary Clinton] had a better shot of winning the presidency than I did. And so I hadn’t, I hadn’t, at this point — even though I’m at Penn, I hadn’t walked away from the idea that I may run for office again. But if I ran again, I’d be running for president. And, and so what was happening, though — what month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30th —

MS. COTTON: 2015.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: 2015.

PRESIDENT BIDEN: Was it 2015 he had died?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: It was May of 2015.

PRESIDENT BIDEN: It was 2015.

MR. BAUER: Or I’m not sure the month, sir, but I think that was the year.

MR. KRICKBAUM: That’s right, Mr. President. It —

PRESIDENT BIDEN: And what’s happened in the meantime is that as — and Trump gets elected in November of 2017?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: 2016.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: ’16.

PRESIDENT BIDEN: ’16, 2016. All right. So — why do I have 2017 here?

MR. SISKEL: That’s when you left office, January of 2017.

PRESIDENT BIDEN: Yeah, okay. But that’s when Trump gets sworn in then, January.

MR. SISKEL: Right.

R. BAUER: Right, correct.

PRESIDENT BIDEN: Okay, yeah. And in 2017, Beau had passed …

Beau Biden died in 2015.

To recap, Biden struggled to remember the year that Donald Trump was elected president, he suggested incorrectly that he left the U.S. Senate in 2017 (he left the vice presidency), and, yes, he couldn’t remember the year his son died even after being reminded. Biden did remember the month and day.

But why get hung up on all of this? It’s “complicated,” says the Associated Press. Also, Hur’s claim that the president “did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died” was “completely false,” says CBS’s chief White House correspondent.

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/2923602/medias-descent-into-political-advocacy/

"What seems new, however, is what we see now: reporters demanding that you disregard the evidence directly in front of your face, readily and easily available evidence, and all in service of partisan narratives.

The stuff we saw this week is beyond mere biased reporting. It’s pure political propaganda. And if anything will accelerate our general descent into chaos and discord, it’s weaponized news media.

Becket Adams is a columnist for the Washington Examiner, National Review, and the Hill. He is also the program director of the National Journalism Center."

https://www.cia.gov/careers/jobs/open-source-collection-specialist/