"Atlas could have shrugged, but instead he picked up a camera & a microphone, the new media is here !!!"
Dr. Gina Loudon has a good piece at Big Journalism on the sinking ship of old media (via Instapundit) and how the new media is jumping on board. The headline above is from a commenter there who understands that conservatives are now using that new media to control the narrative. I think that Atlas shrugging and fighting back could be a winning political strategy.
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posted by Helen at 8:48 AM
16 Comments:
Most of TV news, radio news, news papers, etc. have simply made themselves completely irrelevant as everyone knows. There is nothing there of interest, other than perhaps the baseball scores, the stock market data, and a few other factual items they have not yet started to fudge.
Even factual stories about murders, rapes, robberies, etc. are invariably told with a PC slant to protect the guilty and violate the innocent. Who needs this? Most of us will find out the facts by some other means, but we know that their headline stories are simply intended to sell their product (newspapers or airtime) while advancing multiculturalism. Most of us simply are not interested.
Companies that have been leaders at one stage of a technology are rarely leaders, and often not survivors, at the next stage of the technology. None of the steam locomotive manufacturers were winners in the diesel world. The vacuum-tube manufacturers were not the leaders in transistors and integrated circuits. And so on.
The disruptive effect of the Internet would have made life very difficult for the old-media companies even absent their political bias...only brilliant and astute management could have negotiated this transition well, and that is always rare. The political bias has made things much, more worse, and has become so blatant and so harmful that I wonder if there's a case to be made for violation of fidiciary responsibility to shareholders.
TO: Dr. Helen, et al.
RE: Heh
I think that Atlas shrugging and fighting back could be a winning political strategy. -- Dr. Helen
I think so too. But trying to convince the county apparatchik of that is nigh impossible. And, after all this time, I suspect there's a 'good', i.e., BAD, reason for it. You see....
....the chairman is literally 'in bed' with the local newspaper, e.g., married to the publisher's daughter. And he won't let us put ANYTHING 'controversial', i.e., fighting back, on the party's web-site.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Politics is war. We may even have to use poison gas. -- Sir Winston Churchill]
I was stuck at Logan (Boston) airport from 3:00 P.M. Friday afternoon until midnight this morning when Air Tran finally got a plane in. I watched more CNN in that time frame than I have since it went on the air. I hope that never happens again.
TV= bad bad bad. Newspapers=-bad bad bad.
but somehow we listen, view, and then make snarky comments about how rotten, useless, unimportant they are.
Did you read a paper yesterday? turn on tv for news or commentary?
HA! I even read a post from fred.
"Did you read a paper yesterday? turn on tv for news or commentary?"
No.
Yes, briefly.
I already knew the news from checking blogs during the day.
Trey
I've shrugged. Oddly, I have lots more cash. After cutting back on everything, including living space, I seem to be a little more flush, even though I earn very little.
I have a blog. Maybe, I'll buy a camera. Thomas Paine was a master corset-maker, and look at the impact his pamphlets made. And before anyone says it, I know, sir, that I am no Thomas Paine. I'm just inspired by him.
I watched more CNN in that time frame than I have since it went on the air. I hope that never happens again.
I had a similar experience when stuck in Detroit's airport last summer. The only channel on any of the TVs was CNN. I marvel at how an entire network somehow manages to kiss Obama's ass at the same time. Their blatant rationalizations over Obama's contradictions was something to behold, but more than my stomach could handle for long. After that experience, I do my best to avoid ever watching them again.
It amazing how in the last few years the new media has taken off and those stodgy old conservatives are using it best. One reason conservatives are so successful at this is that there are more conservatives in the U.S. than any other political ideology and the libertarians, like myself, gladly team up with conservatives on many issues.
I get most of my news from two places, Instapundit and WLW radio in Cincinnati. WLW easily tops the listener ratings in every time slot in Ohio because it offers a line local conservative talk show hosts who are second to none.
There is a large group of people at there who are ecstatic that there are now not only sources of news and opinion that lean more their way but an avenue for their voices to be heard.
"There is a large group of people at there who are ecstatic that there are now not only sources of news and opinion that lean more their way but an avenue for their voices to be heard"
This is very true; however, there are still millions and millions of people who get their info exclusively from the traditional media, and who are totally unexposed to many pieces of knowledge that we take for granted.
TO: fred
RE: Heh
but somehow we listen, view, and then make snarky comments about how rotten, useless, unimportant they are. -- fred
You gotta mouse in your pocket? When you use that "we"?
I killed my television back in '97.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Save yourselves...and your children. Kill your television.]
Open minded people will be receptive to all news & analysis sources(left, right, center, libertarian) and THEN make up their minds. In fact I find my own core beliefs changing by the nano-second.
Alex says that he finds his own core beliefs changing by the nano-second. This suggests a lack of any solid philosophical foundation on which to build a life. Such a life is necessarily built on sand, if the CORE BELIEFS are constantly changing.
Alex, I hope you will think about your situation. This is unhealthy and will lead you to dispair.
news is anything that can directly affect me, everything else is entertainment.
i don`t read newspapers or watch tv other than a soccer game occasionally.
if i need my intelligence insulted i blog.....
Dr. Alistair:
When you watch soccer, you are not one of those idiots in the stands, are you? ;)
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