There is this strange phenomenon I’ve been noticing lately and I’m starting to wonder if it’s just me or if there are others like me observing the same thing taking place.
I usually read a lot of different things and I have been doing so ever since I can remember. It’s like a gym habit for me.
Some people like to maintain a healthy body and exercise regularly for years without skipping a day, I wish I was like that but for me that regularity comes in a different form.
I just like to digest and analyse a wide array of ideas.
So as the years go by, you start to assemble your go-to websites for different categories of information.
However, there is something strange that seems to be taking hold of editorial rooms lately. The weirdest part is that it’s spreading across various categories of entirely different niches.
While we used to visit information portals to learn about recent events, discover cool things and entertain new ideas… These days it seems like pulling teeth to go through a single day without a TMZ-type hit piece targeted towards a famous person that we’re now supposed to hate.
True story: I visited some of the very same business websites I’ve been reading for years, and I came across a fascinatingly weird hit piece on Jeff Bezos for the darndest thing.
Apparently he said something in the lines of: Smart people are those who have the ability to change their minds whenever they encounter new information, as opposed to those who believe that they are always right and who believe that they’re never wrong.
Now, the fact that somebody takes offense at something like that and takes the time to write a sensationalist hit-piece and do so in a business website (not a gossip one) is pretty wild.
Times are certainly changing, and this may be the new normal for a while.
I won’t name names (as it try to never do) but one of my favorite tech websites has been doing the exact same thing for months now.
The reason I go to that websites is to find fascinating ideas or learn about exciting new projects.
I’m not logging in to consume some syrupy gossip stuff like:
“Oh my god have you seen that son of a gun named Musk? He smoked weed on the Rogan podcast! Can you believe the atrocity?”
And the same virus seems to be spreading everywhere.
You go to film websites to read the critics’ reviews and you end up bombarded by stuff like: “former actress wants all women to launch a global boycott on sex”, or “Chris Hemsworth commits cultural appropriation crime by wearing a Navajo costume for Halloween”.
Oh no! Let’s accuse him of the native American genoicde while at it.
It’s pretty incredible when you think about it. Even more so as you realize that this wasn’t the case merely a few years ago.
And it’s spilling everywhere as if it was toxic waste. Even in sports websites you can’t hide from this stuff nowadays.
Which begs the question:
Can’t a man just read some news and learn something without being provided with somebody new to hate?
And yet, they wonder why people are so divided and defensive these days.
I don’t know about you but I think that we need new media.
Media, mainstream AND alternative, is just one big Jew-owned scheme. Nothing special or interesting.
This is splendid and delightful, friends...
It's simple supply and demand economics at play. If that's what happens to sell best, that's what those who desire above all else to stay relevant (to the majority) will supply (money talks). Give the market what they want and your wallet will remain fat.
Money over pride, sell your soul to the devil, etc. Soulless, brain decaying, energy wasting content; sadly, that's what the majority demands today. The greedy hesitate not to comply.
You've got a solid point. Money talks and the editorial lines follow that, whatever sells click right?
It's kinda sad but I think you're right.
No, its just you.
The MSmockingbirdM has been this bad for all of my life.
It is just now, with alternative media telling an alternative view that we start to see it.
The difference between soviet russia news and american news is that the americans believe it to be true.
Take this story.
After the Dixie Chicks made a derogatory statement on foreign TV about The US
everyone boycotted the Dixie Chicks and had CD burnings.
... the problem is, CDs don't burn. And i know no one who did so.
But, it was everywhere, according to the news.
Haha yeah, I remember that story going around. That's an excellent point, if CDs don't burn then somebody has been lying.
Another great point about the soviets, at least they knew the media was lying to them. They had 2 outlets only Pravda (which means the truth) and Izvestia (the news) and they used to joke that there is no truth in The Truth, and there's no news in The News.
Well, at least from what they say. You never know these days.
The media has always been full of yellow journalism, but it does seem to have been getting more gossipy as "journalists" worry more about virtue-signalling than journalism. No questions are begged, though.
Haha yeah, and they also like signaling the perceived lack of virtue as well :P
I think that it’s because some of these niche medias are becoming more and more popular, and they want to satisfy their new audience.
I agree with @jamesbrown , because of this new audience, medias have to adapt and sell their content to become easy to read and mainstream ...
However, it’s in those moments that people who used to go read relevant contents in those medias start their own, because they are not satisfy anymore with what they learn
Yeah I agree with that as well.
And as you said, luckily people can start their own now, so that at least is a blessing :)
Hey man, something fun happened this week in France (I don't think it's the case elsewhere)
I don't know if you've seen any news about it, but the situation in Sudan is a little tense at the political level. No French media reported on the situation or the latest developments in the situation. They focused on their usual mainstream articles.
And there, a movement of ordinary people began to show support for the Sudanese people and asked for more information about what was happening, and for the media to do their job.
So I think that whatever bullshit these mainstream media are feeding us, they can very well be called to order when it doesn't fully cover the subject. They are therefore obliged to offer content with a minimum of quality to keep their readers and their credibility.
Finally, if information is not present in these media, social networks now allow us to access information.
Oh I didn't hear about that, thanks for sharing. I'm glad that people are calling them to order as you said. And you're right, now social network allow us to access way more information than when they had absolute monopoly.
Actually maybe new medias will help
Yeah let's hope so
Truth is, it's all smoking mirrors. I limit my listening. What I am most aware of is how swiftly primary topics change. It seems as one huge deflection. One week it's talking about war. The next week migrants are flowing in. The next week 'Russia' gate...on and on...I'm beginning to realize that the most relevant news is community news.
Peace.
Haha yeah, don't forget about Shark Week ;)
so many media forms already we are messed up badly hahah
Haha that we are