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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Had a big of a recent discussion with someone about what’s going on with the corporate press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The TV networks are battling for an audience that’s gotten bigger, but less captive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So you’re NUMBER ONE<\/strong> in cable news? That means, what, three and a half million viewers? There’s more than 300 million US citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When you do the math, it becomes more apparent what the audience is, and why they’re super-serving it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What needs to happen is the name-credibility of the various major media outlets needs to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Who cares that the New York Times<\/em> 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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know, I know, Chuck, that’s dangerous<\/strong><\/em>. I don’t care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It might be a fun experiment to do a retroactive validation of various outlets’ top stories for a particular day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I could wear an Alex Jones Was Right T-shirt now without a lot of irony today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How dangerous is that, Chuck?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stories I’m following today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, another in the string of complete failures of the US government, Kabul is about to fall in Afghanistan<\/a>. That’s another in the list of failures we’ve seen since changing leadership in DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s finished. You failed. Let’s try something completely different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n