If you feel you can’t get mad at the industry that’s impoverishing you, it’s much easier to get mad at the people who you feel are unjustly succeeding in that industry. Trying to cancel Glenn Greenwald (again) because he criticizes the media harshly? Trying to tarnish Substack’s reputation so that cool, paid-up writer types leave it and the bad types like me get kicked off? That they can maybe do. Confronting their industry’s future with open eyes? Too scary, especially for people who were raised to see success as their birthright and have suddenly found that their degrees and their witheringly dry one-liners do not help them when the rent comes due.
Today…
Previously…
CBS was so hoping that Twitter would crash this weekend. “OMG all the Twerps quit!”
I personally think they were chumming the waters, claiming Twitter was bleeding and mortally wounded, hoping to stir up some sort of cyber attack to finish off Twitter once and for all.
And just like that, after taking the weekend off, CBS is back.
Elon sends a message… and yes, I think Elon’s hilarious!
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594509880840388610
FASTER PLEASE!
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I imagine Justin’s ‘Professional, Prepaid Media‘ is doing
just as well as their American cousins. Seems people
don’t especially like being talked down to by their
political and media betters after all.
Or maybe… they’re just too busy keeping up with the
many and varied Hollyweird Kardashian substitutes.
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Wow! An Apocalypse-pending!
Thankfully Joe’s fellow diaper-wearer, turdo la doo, came up with a solution a few years back: massive injections of tax-payer dollars to “save” the industry. About 10 billion ought to do it … for now.
Cast your glazed gaze northward, Joe Depends! It’s your chance to be the Saviour of the press.
Bad comparison. Dinosaurs didn’t kill themselves.
So true! They destroy their business model every single day with their ridiculously biased coverage. But they don’t care. They would rather go out of business than change their ways. Good riddance to these Bolsheviks!
I could totally see myself subscribing to the nearest big city paper, in my case the Philadelphia Inquirer, for coverage of news in my region, but they consistently ignore/suppress any and all stories that are damaging to the Democratic Party. In June of this year it was reported that they were tied with the newspaper in Tampa Bay for the largest single year over year decline in circulation – 20%! What a shame! LOL
The Calgary Herald, as of Oct 17/22, has dropped most of their legacy cartoons and puzzles and replaced them with never-heard-of-before options, probably a lot cheaper for them. This at the same time that they announced that they would not be publishing on Mondays. Half the paper is full page ads for climate change crap credit cards and compact cars, as well as the usual feeds from AP and Reuters. I let them know that changing several things at once is not a good business strategy, since they will not be able to assign any (positive or negative) changes to any one policy change. No response received to date.
Paper is no longer timely. News and information is almost instant today for anyone with a computer or a smart phone. To sell the written word on paper the content has to be exceptional not mediocre.
CBS = Clinton Bragging Service
Complete Bull Shit
I thought it was ABC that was Always Boosting Clinton
“Some people are turning to alternative media to find options that are neither reactionary ideologues or self-righteous woke yelling. “
Ain’t that the truth. Over here, you have to be high if you think I’m going to be insulted from the likes of that smooth brained hasbeen, Kinsella (Seriously, who at the Toronto Sun thought that was a good idea?) and that pompous Laurentian ass, Coyne whose only claim to fame is a BOC daddy and a cousin who was PET’s beard, taking one for the team whenever Bucky needed his “Genuine Hetero” card punched. That’s just two.
Y’all had a good run…the party’s over. I guess pissing off half of Canada isn’t the business model you thought it was.
How is that journalism degree working for you? Could have been a chemist, electrician, plumber, engineer or accountant.
I have a hard time believing that any journalist has the smarts or work ethic to be a chemist, electrician, engineer or accountant.
So?
Even more massive subsidies for our “heroic independent media”..As shown by Dear Leader in Can Ahh Duh..
All media in Canada is State Media.
Pick any subject you know something about. Guns, cars, dogs, oil, whatever. When you look at what the media says, they never say anything that disagrees with the Liberals in a serious way. When the Libs change their minds, the media changes right behind them.
Spot on.
Here is your sub-head.
As we head into the next World-Wide Depression, Newspaper demand falls to the lowest level since the last World-Wide Depression.
It would make a lot more sense and be more carbon friendly if the newspapers were trucked from the printing plant to the recycling plant given how little read most of them are
And yet, still not low enough.