tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post6701672334978975372..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The American Media Self-DeconstructsStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-40196040594070522072020-07-24T12:19:27.491-07:002020-07-24T12:19:27.491-07:00"There’s too much content chasing too few adv..."There’s too much content chasing too few advertisers and subscribers. The internet took away the death grip that local papers had on certain kinds of advertising and made other kinds irrelevant"<br /><br />Also, considerable harm was done to local papers by the various 'hippie newspapers', which are typically free...they tend to cover local concerts & other events, movie schedules, etc.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-12070355764422024342020-07-24T10:15:40.580-07:002020-07-24T10:15:40.580-07:00"Surely, the new agenda rejects free markets...."Surely, the new agenda rejects free markets. Despairing of competing in the marketplace it aspires to become either a government function or the property of tech tycoons. These latter, as I have often noted, are buying protection. They will let their media do whatever it pleases as long as it leaves them alone..."<br /><br />Stuart -<br /><br />this aspect of "total (totalitarian) control" of the public commons does not get enough scrutiny,imo.<br /><br />Trump has had some success mocking the (dying) MSM, but their is a structural chokehold that is moving under the radar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-82807977321994252152020-07-24T10:15:28.835-07:002020-07-24T10:15:28.835-07:00"And yet, our press increasingly seems to be ..."And yet, our press increasingly seems to be the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party."<br /><br />Increasingly seems?? Where have you beenwhitneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01339343160301118530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-67556328246565786372020-07-24T10:11:04.372-07:002020-07-24T10:11:04.372-07:00"After Trump... A Democrat regime would need ..."After Trump... A Democrat regime would need its own Pravda, Izvestia, or Volkische Beobachter. The NYT would be happy to slurp at the subsidized trough along with NPR/PBS. Google would make sure any dissenting voice is hard to find online and easy to physically track down."<br /><br />"in the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king."<br /><br />samizdat.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-45688651504007388812020-07-24T09:48:56.394-07:002020-07-24T09:48:56.394-07:00After Trump... A Democrat regime would need its ow...After Trump... A Democrat regime would need its own Pravda, Izvestia, or Volkische Beobachter. The NYT would be happy to slurp at the subsidized trough along with NPR/PBS. Google would make sure any dissenting voice is hard to find online and easy to physically track down.Peter Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15122781534685443942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-79521532779817837302020-07-24T08:57:10.552-07:002020-07-24T08:57:10.552-07:00Those of us who are conservative haven't belie...Those of us who are conservative haven't believed anything the media, printed, broadcast, or internet, have told us since the Obama administration, and more likely began to take a dim view during the Clinton years. It is plain they do not report but advocate the democrat socialist stand.<br /> <br />Now, what do conservatives do to keep track of what Congress is doing except follow newsletters from our representatives? Reliable conservative or independent sources can be found but sometimes must be hunted. urbane legendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12699110758399432397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-5262747842300474442020-07-24T08:24:20.244-07:002020-07-24T08:24:20.244-07:00I don't know if the media is a wholly-owned su...I don't know if the media is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party, or the Dems are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the media, but I DO KNOW they are in cahoots!<br /><br />"Papers have been chasing digital subscribers, who are more likely to be younger and leftist, but that’s only a viable strategy for a handful of national papers, the New York Times and the Washington Post, which embraced a radical agenda and a vow to bring down Trump." I despise, detest, and distrust the NYT, and its little dog WaPoo, too!<br /><br />Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com