what would the news media do without Trump ?

[grandprix1041]

For the last two years you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing his name, good and bad. I don't imagine the next four years will be any different either.

 

[juttjaw]

Hooray!! I can't wait......

 

[Hard_Rom]

I'm sure there is shit going down in the world that is being ignored by the media because T-Rump news makes more money. They could go back and retell old stories. Anyone think migrants are no longer drowning in the Mediterranean? How about watching Venezuela fall into chaos. Maybe one day they will concentrate on every gun death that occurs in the US. Be interesting to see how the public and it's opinions change then.

Media organizations are profit generating corporations.

Marshall McLuhan describes the "content" of a medium as a juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind. This means that people tend to focus on the obvious, which is the content, to provide us valuable information, but in the process, we largely miss the structural changes in our affairs that are introduced subtly, or over long periods of time. As society's values, norms, and ways of doing things change because of the technology, it is then we realize the social implications of the medium. These range from cultural or religious issues and historical precedents, through interplay with existing conditions, to the secondary or tertiary effects in a cascade of interactions that we are not aware of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

We just have to look at blogging, social media with it's post-truths and outright fake news to see that the WWW is the message.

 

[Lancecastor]

We just have to look at blogging, social media with it's post-truths and outright fake news to see that the WWW is the message.

Agreed; Just today for example you lied about the extent of Canadian spying on Brazil.

 

[juttjaw]

Agreed; Just today for example you lied about the extent of Canadian spying on Brazil.

Canada has spies??

 

[Lancecastor]

Canada has spies??

Exactly.

 

[juttjaw]

Exactly.

Understood.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Trump will roll over the press soon enough.

LBJ usta phone CBS and ask them to choose tween the IRS and FBI to spend some quality time with.

 

[Hypoxia]

For the last two years you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing his name, good and bad. I don't imagine the next four years will be any different either.

Oh yes, the horrible nasty lying shit-eating mainstream media that gave Tromp a few billion bucks of free airtime over the last couple years will be bereft when he only communicates in tweets (call him Tweety-Pie) and ignores press pools. And answers no hard questions. And pushes IRS and FBI probes of critics. Yes, the media will be in a flurry. Even his buds at Breitbart, who went apeshit when he picked a soft-on-illegal-aliens turd as SecState. At least InfoWars is still with him. For now. Check again on 21 Jan.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Agreed; Just today for example you lied about the extent of Canadian spying on Brazil.

http://www.jproc.ca/rrp/leitrim_canada_sigint.pdf

It's called the Communications Security Establishment and is responsible for SIGINT. It's satellite monitoring of Latin American countries operates out of CFB Leitrim in Ontario.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Security_Establishment#Role

Due to the US-centric ECHELON system the US probably collects SIGINT from Latin countries itself. CFB Leitrim is either used as a part of ECHELON, used as a backup should US stations be attacked and for Canada's own usage.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/CFS_Leitrim_2.JPG

 

[Hard_Rom]

Understood.

Many times I am mistaken or just plain wrong. But lying is not my thing. Don't place much stock in lanceepoo. He hasn't been the same since he narrowly escaped an IRA bombing.

 

[juttjaw]

Many times I am mistaken or just plain wrong. But lying is not my thing. Don't place much stock in lanceepoo. He hasn't been the same since he narrowly escaped an IRA bombing.

understood.