https://jonathanturley.org/2024/06/04/lets-not-sugarcoat-it-people-are-not-reading-your-stuff-post-reporters-outraged-after-publisher-drops-truth-bomb/
Really good article about something I think about a lot: these media outlets that are utter garbage today once weren't. They were infiltrated and infested, and even people who used to do good work were infected with a mind virus. It's easy to rewrite history to think things have always looked this way, but go back 20 years and the whole world looked way different. Not saying there weren't biases and media spin and political spin, but rather that the character of society was much different. It's like the classic Yakov Smirnoff joke: "in America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, the party can always find you!" -- things were a lot more about having fun. You could see it in the movies, hear it in the music, feel it in the video games.
There's a reason why for so long when someone came "back" from that time period everyone got excited for a while, because people want to go back to having fun. But instead every time we end up seeing more preachy bullshit.
That isn't owned solely by the woke either. Every report I hear out of the daily wire plus is that It's just the same content flipped around. I don't want to pwn the libs, I just want to see a fun to watch story.
Let me give an example demonstrating what media could be if we stop letting $currentyear define everything: this season I'm watching one show about a prince trying to use his ability to see people's skill levels to help him rule a barony through a time of conflict, a story about a goblin who has the ability to learn more abilities by eating trying to help his people thrive, a story about a kid playing with magic with intense passion, a story of a young man's second chance in a fantasy world, a story of a slime becoming the most powerful demon lord through the power of friendship, the story of a hero coming back after defeating the big bad after 500 years and trying to find his bearings and the relationships with his old friends, and a story of a guy who fights in a modern self defense force against city destroying monsters while secretly using his powers as a city destroying monster to tip the scales in the humans favor. Some people want to say "everything is political", but do any of those stories strike you as overtly partisan? I feel like generally speaking I could sit next to someone of any political stripe and we could enjoy those stories together.
I don't know if media institutions that were previously perfectly acceptable and enjoyable and worthwhile can be saved, but it would be nice.
Really good article about something I think about a lot: these media outlets that are utter garbage today once weren't. They were infiltrated and infested, and even people who used to do good work were infected with a mind virus. It's easy to rewrite history to think things have always looked this way, but go back 20 years and the whole world looked way different. Not saying there weren't biases and media spin and political spin, but rather that the character of society was much different. It's like the classic Yakov Smirnoff joke: "in America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, the party can always find you!" -- things were a lot more about having fun. You could see it in the movies, hear it in the music, feel it in the video games.
There's a reason why for so long when someone came "back" from that time period everyone got excited for a while, because people want to go back to having fun. But instead every time we end up seeing more preachy bullshit.
That isn't owned solely by the woke either. Every report I hear out of the daily wire plus is that It's just the same content flipped around. I don't want to pwn the libs, I just want to see a fun to watch story.
Let me give an example demonstrating what media could be if we stop letting $currentyear define everything: this season I'm watching one show about a prince trying to use his ability to see people's skill levels to help him rule a barony through a time of conflict, a story about a goblin who has the ability to learn more abilities by eating trying to help his people thrive, a story about a kid playing with magic with intense passion, a story of a young man's second chance in a fantasy world, a story of a slime becoming the most powerful demon lord through the power of friendship, the story of a hero coming back after defeating the big bad after 500 years and trying to find his bearings and the relationships with his old friends, and a story of a guy who fights in a modern self defense force against city destroying monsters while secretly using his powers as a city destroying monster to tip the scales in the humans favor. Some people want to say "everything is political", but do any of those stories strike you as overtly partisan? I feel like generally speaking I could sit next to someone of any political stripe and we could enjoy those stories together.
I don't know if media institutions that were previously perfectly acceptable and enjoyable and worthwhile can be saved, but it would be nice.
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Oversupply has crushed publishing and media. Social media just made it worse because now no one actually reads the articles, only the summaries.
Oversupply has crushed publishing and media. Social media just made it worse because now no one actually reads the articles, only the summaries.