Friday 27 December 2024 13:33:39 PM CDT
The uncontrollability of information was a factor in the election and the events leading up to it. The liberation of Twitter was probably
the biggest single factor but there have for years been dozens if not hundreds of news sites and blogs with audiences in the millions and
it continues to grow. While the Drudge Report tanked after it for whatever reason turned left the audience of
Citizen Free Press
grew massively and continues to do so. Other sources large and small and mainstream like the New York Post and Fox News or non-mainstream
like The Blaze and Newsmax and in talk radio conservative shows dominate. Out of the top two dozen the only leftist show is BBC. I
got that from Wikipedia and it doesn't have
Clay and Buck
on the list so take it with the proverbial grain of sodium chloride. Sounds kind of sinister that way, doesn't it. I believe Clay and Buck
are in numbers near the top of that list.
Meanwhile CNN and MSNBC were hemorrhaging audience before the election and it has only gotten worse. It appears that those two at
least will be cut loose by their owners who are apparently finally tired of subsidizing them. Not that they seemed to have any qualms about
spewing solidly credentialed propaganda that would make Soviet-era TASS and Pravda blush. Today the Russian news is generally more reliable
honest than the no-longer-mainstream media here. What will happen to the other
Alphabet News
organs remains to be seen - the old three-letters (ABC/NBC/CBS) have been losing market share as well and since the election debacle aren't in
much better shape and are a financial drag on
the megacorps that own them. Paying midwit (on a good day) bimbos [1] to read the the stuff millions each to simply read poorly
written material or act out scripts - badly. Some of the newspapers [2] still aren't catching on as we see from this piece of work:
The only question for the big newspapers seems to be who will own them and if their policy will change. The
Washington Post demurred
on the presidential endorsement as did the
Los Angeles Time .
Both are owned by people with a lot of money and don't like throwing it away and like it less when it's in a
lost cause.
Bezos is a fairly smart guy and has been to Mar-a-Lago along with
everyone who is anyone
and I'll be surprised if he doesn't either sell the Post or make some changes. I'll be surprised if the LA Times doesn't make any changes at all
if its current owners don't sell it.
Meanwhile X marks the spot where the center of the universe in things socio-political is located. Much as the left hates it now (almost certainly
more than they loved it when their pals owned it) they have no choice but to go see there to what's happening. Facebook has the numbers but it's
mostly for people chitchatting with F&F and putting up pics of their kids and cats. Maybe all the cat ladies are there. Zuckerberg did make the
pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago and may open Facebook up some but it's largely irrelevant in the important discourse.
[1] Bimbos (bimboes?) come in both sexes (that's right kiddos, there are only two of them) and various colors, races, ethnicities and whatever.
In the 'news' business women do predominate and the majority are caucasian.
[2] Newspaper these days means websites. Even with printed distribution web traffic is for the big ones their major exposure and thus revenue.
Information is not like money or any other commodity.
The cracks that it can slip through are almost infinitely small,
and it can be duplicated at almost zero cost. Soon information
will be like air, like the weather, and as easy to control.
David Brin, Tomorrow Happens
"I remember your gom jabbar," Paul said. "You remember mine.
I can kill you with a word."
The Fremen around the hall glanced knowingly at each other. Did
not the legend say "his word shall carry death eternal to all
who stand against righteousness
Dune
Frank Herbert
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So New York Daily News
Woman dies after she catches fire in Brooklyn
subway car; NYPD suspects homicide
Woman dies after she catches fire in Brooklyn subway car.
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