I’m clearing out things that are sitting in my draft queue because I’m kind of lazy, and don’t want to really dig through my prompts to find something to write.
News.
Had a big of a recent discussion with someone about what’s going on with the corporate press.
The TV networks are battling for an audience that’s gotten bigger, but less captive.
I think I’ve touched on it a bit previously. There’s just so much fragmentation, and the audience that is still sticking with the legacy methods is dying off.
So you’re NUMBER ONE in cable news? That means, what, three and a half million viewers? There’s more than 300 million US citizens.
When you do the math, it becomes more apparent what the audience is, and why they’re super-serving it.
If there’s a TV commercial that warns of negative effects for those going through menopause, I can know I’m really not in the plurality of the audience.
Some of the discussion I’ve heard on my regular podcasts (I can’t remember which, exactly, could have been “The Fifth Column,” “Blocked and Reported,” or “Honestly.”) the for the print media, with the subscriber model, the editorial decisions about news are really guided by what the paying customers, the subscribers, want to consume.
Oh well.
What needs to happen is the name-credibility of the various major media outlets needs to die.
Who cares that the New York Times reported something? Did they actually report it accurately the first time? What did they fail to report? Were some of the failures to report something based on worry about subscribers’, or the staff’s reaction to the story?
The “alternative” media sources shouldn’t be dismissed immediately because of why they are. Similarly, the corporate press shouldn’t be given any specific weight because of who is reporting it.
I know, I know, Chuck, that’s dangerous. I don’t care.
It might be a fun experiment to do a retroactive validation of various outlets’ top stories for a particular day.
I could wear an Alex Jones Was Right T-shirt now without a lot of irony today.
How dangerous is that, Chuck?
Stories I’m following today.
First, another in the string of complete failures of the US government, Kabul is about to fall in Afghanistan. That’s another in the list of failures we’ve seen since changing leadership in DC.
It’s finished. You failed. Let’s try something completely different.
Another example of maybe super-serving the audience. Thousands of COVID-19 cases and deaths may have been due to wildfire smoke, new study says
Uh, maybe people are, you know, gathering indoors where they’re protected from directly-inhaling the fire smoke by filtering HVAC systems?
“Experts also told The Post that wildfire smoke leads to people spending more time indoors, where the virus is more likely to spread.”
Okay. They did get to it, but it’s way down in the article. Why is that?
And I thought I had problems – 8/9/2000
On second thought, nobody is worse than me. I saw the ex today….didn’t talk to her. But I’m sure it’s her. New car. Go figure. Her hair is now some color not found in nature. But I decided not to pull her over and talk to her. Perhaps I give her too much credit. Her new automobile had a bumper sticker that reads “Bad Cop, No Donut.” Please. Rant forthcoming. If you don’t want to read it, skip a paragraph….
Don’t fuck with the cops….they will always win. If a cop pulls you over, be as polite as possible. Obey everything he/she says. Take mental notes. If it’s a standard traffic stop, and he/she asks to search your car, politely decline. Don’t put anything on your car that’s gonna put them in a bad mood when they see you. They win. You lose. It’s as simple as that. You can’t beat them. But fighting them will only get you hurt. If they do something wrong in the process, your mouth isn’t going to punish them….the law will. But remember, in general, the law is on your side. Your attitude has a lot to do with it. So there.
I cut it there, because the rest was really rambling. I was talking about flirtations with vegetarianism again. What’s there, however, speaks to my general outlook on many things.
Take care of yourself, and don’t intentionally set people off.
I have other things I want to write about, but I think I’m finished for today.