I think the realization they came to in 2020 is that if they keep it up, they could end up either on charges of sedition/treason, or they could end up on the receiving end of a mob of angry pitchforks.
I agree and in addition to that the realization the Nation is laughing at them, their industry has become a joke, and their ratings are in the negatives.
Remember when Bill Barr was accused of attacking Trump's enemies using his office? Barr responds, name ANYONE who I have indicted that is a Trump detractor.
Barr seemed quite proud that he had indicted exactly none of the coup plotters, participants, or anyone else who has slandered, or lied under oath against Trump.
Which is why this meme I'm seeing going around the tech community that UBI is "capitalism 2.0" is utter insanity. How do people.e not see that if you depend on the government for your food and housing that the government can then get away with any evil it wants?
She didn't learn anything really. One of the reasons she gave for leaving is that they weren't covering "important topics" like mass mail-in voting. She IS the cancer, just doesn't realize it.
(also notice her passive voice: it's the "job" or the system that is the problem, not the people who work in it)
Member after the 2016 where all those shit-lib outlets did 'a lot of soul searching' about what they got wrong about their election coverage? And they were gonna commit to an expanded editorial viewpoint and an emphasis on objective truth without navel-gazing as part of the beltway/coastal elites?
The cure is honest reporting. That’s how you beat lying, shitty politicians. Is by having an actual press. It an emotional serving shitshow you call news.
You see what happens when the NYT tries to occasionally write an honest headline. Their sjw Twitter users revolt and then NYT swiftly changes headline to "Orange Man Bad Again". Leftists have no desire for the truth.
Twitter is one of the worst developments to have arisen since the dawn of the internet. A few thousand angry leftists and foreign bots use Twitter to exert massive influence over government and corporate policy, and it has completely changed our world for the worst.
Are you going to wake up one day and trust the lying liars that lied to you? Cause I sure a fuck won't be doing that, as far as I'm concerned the whole business needs to be done away with most harshly. Also I don't think their MSDNC references are going to get them hired...anywhere...ever...again. I think openly advocating treason/sedition/insurrection of the United States government should ban you from earning an income.
You can't do away with it without allowing much worse to get away with things without any attempt at finding it out. Would you say that Andy Ngo is doing good things? What about OAN? They aren't perfect but they are doing what journalists should be doing and making sure that what's actually happening is getting out for the public to see as best as they can.
The problem comes in with trying to figure out a system that allows for people like Andy to do what he does and be protected while doing it and not allowing groups like CNN and the rest of the MSM to blatantly lie and still be protected.
MSM needs to die the death of a million cuts they are useless to society. Andy and OAN are not the MSM although I would like to see what they would do with their resources.
You just said you wanted the entire business to be done away with most harshly. Andy, OAN, and many others that are doing the right things are in that business. You are advocating for them to be swept away with the rest.
Welcome to the world of sweeping generalizations. "All Journalists Are Bastards" cuts both ways.
We're not alone, either. Go look at what UK/EU "journalists" did with Brexit. Or "refugees" in the EU. Or terrorism. We're right behind them in that regard.
It's always fun when a brainwashed UK resident lectures us, when they're so programmed it's breathtaking.
"an organization that is not leftwing will become leftwing over time" because they get in, snake their way up the chain, then once they have power they gatekeep
She seems to honestly believe in reporting the truth. Her problem is she thinks the Progressive angle is what the truth is. Blind to her own biases. How like a journalist.
She probably wants MSNBC to be more like the NY Times. To wrap the progressive bullshit in a more sophisticated wrapper. She probably hates being surrounded by circus clowns like Sharpton and Joe and Mika.
Everyone is blind to their own bias in one way or another. The difference only comes into play if you're willing to let yourself be made aware of your bias and try to get past it to do the objectively right thing.
She's whinging about how scary the future is for her.
She's so self-involved and self-important that she thinks not knowing where her next cushy gig will be is the real tragedy here, with seeming no awareness of who she's been working for, or any accountability for her actions to assist them to inflict the damage she admits they do on a daily basis.
Consequently, it makes me think this "letter" is more likely her attempt to create that cushy gig for herself by driving the traffic generated from this to her site, where she posted it.
Typical over-confident "journalist" maneuver, IMO. If she really wanted to make a statement she would've published a letter and given permission to who ever wanted to publish it. That would've insured the greatest coverage and most eyeballs reading it.
You'd think a journalist with her credentials would have known that prior to releasing the letter the way she did. Makes the decision to post on her blog even more transparent, IMO.
She talks about how she doesn't want to leave her beloved New York City but will reluctantly move to her home in Virginia. Where I am sure she will vote for mail-in voting and all her favorite leftist causes.
Don't shed a tear for this wolf in lamb's clothing.
If it were up to me, I say stop her at the border and not allow her to enter the commonwealth.
She is an admitted MSNBC Propagandist and declared enemy of the American people.
This same thing is happening in tech as well. The incentives forces startups to make bad decisions. One classic example is where a startup offer a free service, hook users to their platform, and then monetises their privacy. Then it perverses the user experience based on the best monetary value for the company. This is exactly how we have Google, Facebook and Twitter turn into self censoring social justice warriors.
The problem with market system is, it optimises anything you throw at it. If you thorw something unethical, it maximises that as well.
Startup Culture only exists because of completely unregulated monopolies buying out everything under the sun. That leaves only one way to freely build something, and that is to start with selling out to the monopolies as the primary goal. With that kind of mindset permeating the entire industry there is no longer any room for ethics.
There are no long term consequences, those will be absorbed by the monopoly. There is no customer satisfaction or worthwhile causes, there is no real competition, you only need a temporary infusion of a niche market to attract purchasers to the silent auction.
It may be that they filled the only space left to the market, but living in the shadow of the monopolies isn't exactly 'free market economics' anymore.
Is the problem that they are unregulated? Or is it that people don't really care to build up their own companies and would rather sell out quick to Google or whoever in order to get rich in the short term?
As long as we allow people to be held responsible for their actions, it will still work out. For instance, if we are able to sue media for all their malicious reporting, you will find them suddenly develop integrity
Still really bothers me about games...the sjws infiltrated one of my favorite hobbies since I was 5, and now I can’t escape the bullshit. When smaller studios refuse to put black wheelchair bound non binary female furry otherkin vegans with bug eating exception into, let’s say, period European correct game, they get treated like they are shit. I just want to play games
I've watched the industry die from the inside, any decent human being with their opinions were being forced out starting more than a decade ago. It started with big names getting death threats against their families, and just leaving the industry altogether. Who can blame them?
Then it was the ones without a public face, because they "didn't fit the work culture." The smart ones got out early, the rest were forced out one way or another. Then the game design courses started pumping out liberal arts students with barely any practical knowledge at all, and the industry scooped them all up as if those pieces of paper had some kind of value beyond wiping asses.
Indie Games are the only safe market anymore. If you look carefully, and ignore the massive loads of crap, you find devs who just want to make entertaining games. And there are a few who have big game experience, who may or may not be bound by NDAs and not even allowed to claim prior experience in the industry.
Actually many aspects of the tech these past 2 decades. Search engines, social media, peer to peer systems things like Amazon, Uber what not. The gig economy went a step further and managed to monetize exploitation. But the time comes for reckoning, instead of fixing their mistakes, they double down and blame everyone else.
Why wouldn't they? They see the choices as "keep peddling lies and shit for large amounts of money donated through various companies and organizations from people like Soros" or "tell the truth and make far less while having those same people target you for removal because you refuse to push the narrative they demand."
Greed is a thing that most people don't connect to this. There is a LOT of money being pushed around to get leftist thought made the only acceptable thought. It takes someone with a certain type of personality to simply pass on a bunch of money.
The problem is anonymous markets and a morally bankrupt society. If people had strong morals and knew who you were, you would think twice about doing shady things because the people would turn on you. Now you get praised for coming up with the biggest scams.
Well we cant have a system that only works if all people have strong morals. Thats whats great about capitalism and why socialism fails. In capitalism, when immoral behaviour surfaces, its accounted for via various mechanisms. Whereas in socialism, immoral behaviour will slowly push the society into abyss. This is what makes capitalism so great and so universal.
Personally I think all the problems in our current society can be traced back to the mis-incentive we have for stock prices.
Executive bonuses are tied to stock performance. So they have no incentive to work on getting solid revenues. Just increase user base, hype up the product, get some idiots to speculate on their stocks, and cash in the bonus and move on to the next scam.
When the world's richest man didnt really create much profits, thats seriously wrong.
I can't believe when they flash 50 aggressive and repetitive ads per page for dog treats and customizable dog jackets... that cover over 50% of the screen, just because one time I asked google "what is a portugese water spaniel"... and I don't even have a dog... I just can't believe that advertising model isnt working for them. Who would have thought.
Hey, you know these things called smartphones? Yeah, these things that people are using all the time because they can access our content from their pockets in no time?
I know, let's NOT filter the ads we display on them, and allow redirect malvertisement that takes them to a different page that tries to convince them that there's malware on their phone.
What? Users are using browsers with adblockers now? Who would have known? Oh well, there's always the app!
I think Google, and therefore China, needs to be made an example of and Sundar Pichai needs to be charged with perjury for his lies to Congress to start fixing the advertising business and Big Tech in general.
I think Google breaking up would cause their monopoly on the advertising market to fracture and allow real competition to be fostered in the industry again, assuming they break up Google the right way and don't just allow their competitors to absorb the pieces like "break-ups" in years past.
I know GEOTUS talked about looking at the anti-trust laws in general before. I couldn't agree with him more and think we need to make Google feel like the government went easy on US Steel and Ma Bell.
Google/Big Tech are some of the most anti-competitive, anti-American, elitists the world has ever known, with more power in their grasp than most realize.
I hope, with the right people on the legal team, with the right experts, Sundar "Pencil Neck" Pichai and Google will finally be brought to heel.
Adding competition into just about every industry they are involved is a good thing for the American consumer, IMO.
Competition is the solution to the advertising industry problems, and the solution to so many industry's issues in the US, IMO.
The free market is the reason for the prosperity we have today. If we forget that we will lose it.
Just like the monopolies of the "Robber Barons" in early 20th century US history, we now have oligopolies, which are functionally the same as far as the consumer is concerned, with or without overt collusion between concerns.
So many fiscally uneducated people see the "evils of Capitalism" when in fact the reason for the problems are a lack of Capitalism.
The free market solves problems, increases productivity, and most importantly protects consumers.
What if the mask policies were left up to the store owners and we let the free market decide?
When did we get in the habit of deciding which businesses were allowed to be open and which were closed? I thought we were supposed to let the people decide which ones they liked. I don't remember voting for any amendment that allowed anyone to dictate to me where I spend my hard-earned money.
Ok, rant over. Thanks guys. Just needed to get that out.
So many fiscally uneducated people see the "evils of Capitalism" when in fact the reason for the problems are a lack of Capitalism.
Crony capitalism is the end state of "total free market capitalism." When you have no regulation, or the regulation you have is not enforced, we get the situation that allows for the mess that we're dealing with today. The "free market" can only be free when you don't allow for things like google to get as large as they are today and simply buy up anyone that threatens their place.
You mentioned the Robber Barons, but you can't seem to grasp that those occurred because they had no limits placed on them so they did whatever they wanted to the detriment of everyone else. You're missing the fact that google, facebook, disney, and the rest are this centuries "Robber Barons" because they are not being kept in check by the laws and regulations put in place to keep them in check. You're arguing to make the problem worse, not better, by going full free market with no limits.
A free market only works when there are rules that everyone involved in knows and is forced to play by. There's a reason sandboxes have defined edges.
I know this was forever ago but I just saw it and wanted to say I don't disagree with your statement at all. A truly unfettered market with no regulation would be disastrous.
I think regulation reform is needed. We need to get rid of anti-competitive regulations, that are written by lobbyists, to create artificial barriers to entry into so many industries.
We need less consolidation not more, IMO. We need more players in the game in order for the consumer protections afforded by the free market to work effectively. We need actual choices instead the illusion of choice.
I think I agree with you largely on the principles of what is wrong, we just have different opinions on the best way to go about fixing it.
I don't even think our ideas are mutually exclusive. I think both will likely be needed if we are really going to fix our economy.
Journalism died when the news became 24/7 and people could access it 24/7. So you got opinion piece after opinion piece as it was something to fill the time.
Then the far left infected the news with their footsoldiers so they could tell the world their socialist opinions on things. Then overtime pushed all other opinions to the side or out the door.
You watch the news today you don't even get told what is happening around the world. Then the mass hysteria they generate about COVID-1984 by telling you 10 new cases in a population of millions is a bad thing.
The less newspapers have to say of value and of truth, the more pages they seem to take to say it. Usually a few minutes is more than sufficient to read a paper. One must select wisely a source of news; otherwise it would be better to be uninformed than misinformed. - Garson O'Toole, 1979
Imagine being so clueless, for so long, that you've been turning your own habitat into more and more of a violent shithole and even now only grasp the most rudimentary inklings that there might be something off enough that maybe you can just get rehired into different scenery or window dressing.
They do recognize themselves as propagandists and that's why they want to do it. They, mostly, don't really care about truth anymore. It's a career of prestigious activism with a high potential for and a clear path to palpable power.
In case you didn't read her actual masturbatory resignation letter, she thinks the industry is FAILING at being the proper propaganda disseminators that we mere plebes NEED.
Context and factual data are often considered too cumbersome for the audience. There may be some truth to that (our education system really should improve the critical thinking skills of Americans) – but another hard truth is that it is the job of journalists to teach and inform, which means they might need to figure out a better way to do that.
Emphasis from quote in case folks miss it:
"but another hard truth is that it is the job of journalists to teach and inform, which means they might need to figure out a better way to do that."
Journalist are like prostitutes, you either take it in the ass or you go work down at the bakery. That's why all the news is based on shit written by assholes.
Stop demonizing all the "smart people with good intentions", it's not their fault they lie 24/7 and go out of their way to shape the narrative, it's just "the job forcing them to make bad decisions", the poor souls have no agency in any of it.
Burn in hell, the lot of you, all i see is rats trying to jump off the sinking ship that is mainstream media while scrambling to salvage some credibility. F-off.
there used to be a clear line between the dayside "news" programing on cable news channels and the primetime commentary. Think of it like news content of a paper vs its editorial pages. However, as the "news" brings in less ratings, the editorialization started permeating all hours of programing. Any "news" show that has a main tile with the name of the presenter is going to be largely editorialized. This is fueled not only by macro level trends for ratings, but also the egos of the presenters themselves. Imagine presenting the news and being overshadowed by a commentator. The only way to regain your status is to offer commentary as well.
What then happens is, the internal environment is highly biased because most of the staff is working on political commentary shows, so there is no need to be impartial or uphold yourself to basic journalistic standards. This sets the tone for the larger organization, as interactions in the cafe, water cooler, etc are dominated by those who don't feel any professional pressure to remain impartial, because the entire focus of the content they are putting out is proudly biased commentary.
This culture takes over and the line between news and commentary completely falls apart. There is no group of "news" execs and "commentary" execs. It's all the same group of people.
Her article was is pretty good. As im flicking through her tweets shes actually a moron . blames trump for politicizing BLM then claims they aren't political because some "official" board said aren't.
In Thomas Jefferson's inaugural address he said "The freedom of religion, freedom of press, freedom of person" these are not the tenants of party they are the pillars of the republic.
"Again, personally, I don’t think the people need to change. I think the job itself needs to change. There is a better way to do this. I’m not so cynical to think that we are absolutely doomed (though we are on that path). I know we can find a cure. If we can figure how to send a man to the moon, if Alex Trebek can defy the odds with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and if Harry Reid can actually overcome pancreatic cancer (he’s now cancer free), then we can fix this, too. "
This lady is not the brightest. We already have the cure. The cure is completely shutdown the likes of MSNBC and CNN, stop propping them up on youtube and on main cable channels, reform section 230 to make the internet fair again without mass banning of anything to the right of Mao Zedong, and utilize independent media and journalism that we already have out there producing content to give the masses information. People like Tim Pool are the solution, and we need to get more voices to be ALLOWED to do what he's doing without banning while we shutdown MSM for good
I guess this is a good thing, but how about naming names, and being more specific. These generic platitudes do nothing but make you look like you’re just not willing to go along anymore, with no real desire to root out the problem.
One can only hope (pray?) that this practice continues and eventually leads to some new balanced news sites. By the way, I really like the website this article is from: justthenews.com - I will be adding it to my daily reading regimen.
They are concerned with how guests and stories will “rate” with their audience.
The “cure” is to go after stories and guests with views that will grow the audience rather than catering to a shrinking group of shrieking harpies.
I can’t believe these people who willingly decrease revenue and intentionally pass on 75% of the marketplace of viewers still have jobs.
National/Global media is not the place to limit the audience you are appealing to. Shareholders should fire these executives for being derelict in their responsibility to shareholders.
Pekary on Monday tweeted out news of her departure from MSNBC, where she has produced host Lawrence O'Donnell's show, and directed followers to a personal Web site where she described her reasoning.
This was always one of the points I made with the fake news propaganda that CNN, MSNBC, etc. put out.
Imagine going to school at Northwestern University, the best journalism school in the World, just to get hired by CNN and told to stalk Trump in order to ask him "Mr. President, are you a racist?" as he's walking away with his back turned to you after a press conference, all in the name of getting a soundbite that some ANTIFA loser is going to hear and chuckle at for two seconds.
Unless they're paying me well into the six figures, I would say "fuck you" and quit.
"You could try reporting objectively..."
"...No cure."
It’s us vs them in their mind. As long as they get to eat at the end of the day. Fuckin scumbags.
Listening to Dan Bongino lately I presume?
As long as their ideological enemies are destroyed, they don't care.
Lies which kill people and destroy your country --- way worse
Msm is the real enemy.
They think if they blow up enough cities we get star trek government level utopia. It's a good damn mind bender
Honk.
Msm is the real enemy.
"Have you tried being honest?"
"No."
"Cure."
...and be replaced during the first commercial break
I wish OAN had the payroll and influence of the big networks... a lot of problems solved if that happens.
This would be an awesome Calvin and Hobbes.
It's like there's a time jump and we're watching the adult version of the strip.
I totally expected to see that meme where the dude gets tossed out of the building.
I think the realization they came to in 2020 is that if they keep it up, they could end up either on charges of sedition/treason, or they could end up on the receiving end of a mob of angry pitchforks.
I agree and in addition to that the realization the Nation is laughing at them, their industry has become a joke, and their ratings are in the negatives.
Remember when Bill Barr was accused of attacking Trump's enemies using his office? Barr responds, name ANYONE who I have indicted that is a Trump detractor.
Barr seemed quite proud that he had indicted exactly none of the coup plotters, participants, or anyone else who has slandered, or lied under oath against Trump.
pretty much
A decent salary and cushy job makes a lot of people look the other way for years sadly.
"It's is difficult to get a man to understand something..." and all that.
Which is why this meme I'm seeing going around the tech community that UBI is "capitalism 2.0" is utter insanity. How do people.e not see that if you depend on the government for your food and housing that the government can then get away with any evil it wants?
Well if you eliminate the HuD, Food Stamps,Welfare and most of the SS Admin, there is a cost saving capitalist argument.
Except people would still blow their UBI on stupid shit and still get welfare cause you won't let them starve for making poor decisions
No, eliminate welfare etc. It's gone, only ubi. Of someone can starve to death on $1000 a month that is a pretty impressive accomplishment.
She didn't learn anything really. One of the reasons she gave for leaving is that they weren't covering "important topics" like mass mail-in voting. She IS the cancer, just doesn't realize it.
(also notice her passive voice: it's the "job" or the system that is the problem, not the people who work in it)
Member after the 2016 where all those shit-lib outlets did 'a lot of soul searching' about what they got wrong about their election coverage? And they were gonna commit to an expanded editorial viewpoint and an emphasis on objective truth without navel-gazing as part of the beltway/coastal elites?
Yeah, I didn't believe it either.
they are not sending their best!
The cure is honest reporting. That’s how you beat lying, shitty politicians. Is by having an actual press. It an emotional serving shitshow you call news.
But then they’d have to report positive things about their political opponents and that is just simply impossible
You see what happens when the NYT tries to occasionally write an honest headline. Their sjw Twitter users revolt and then NYT swiftly changes headline to "Orange Man Bad Again". Leftists have no desire for the truth.
Twitter is one of the worst developments to have arisen since the dawn of the internet. A few thousand angry leftists and foreign bots use Twitter to exert massive influence over government and corporate policy, and it has completely changed our world for the worst.
Facebook is a lot worse.
She actually mentioned that in her blog post, that some of the producers see themselves as comforters instead of journalists.
I have tried to send people to OAN and their response has been "it's boring". Yup, news is supposed to be boring.
Indeed. The ancient Chinese got it right when they came up with the curse 'May you live in interesting times.'
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Are you going to wake up one day and trust the lying liars that lied to you? Cause I sure a fuck won't be doing that, as far as I'm concerned the whole business needs to be done away with most harshly. Also I don't think their MSDNC references are going to get them hired...anywhere...ever...again. I think openly advocating treason/sedition/insurrection of the United States government should ban you from earning an income.
You can't do away with it without allowing much worse to get away with things without any attempt at finding it out. Would you say that Andy Ngo is doing good things? What about OAN? They aren't perfect but they are doing what journalists should be doing and making sure that what's actually happening is getting out for the public to see as best as they can.
The problem comes in with trying to figure out a system that allows for people like Andy to do what he does and be protected while doing it and not allowing groups like CNN and the rest of the MSM to blatantly lie and still be protected.
MSM needs to die the death of a million cuts they are useless to society. Andy and OAN are not the MSM although I would like to see what they would do with their resources.
You just said you wanted the entire business to be done away with most harshly. Andy, OAN, and many others that are doing the right things are in that business. You are advocating for them to be swept away with the rest.
Welcome to the world of sweeping generalizations. "All Journalists Are Bastards" cuts both ways.
Semantics of which I am not concerned with.
Language matters until it doesn't
We're not alone, either. Go look at what UK/EU "journalists" did with Brexit. Or "refugees" in the EU. Or terrorism. We're right behind them in that regard.
It's always fun when a brainwashed UK resident lectures us, when they're so programmed it's breathtaking.
Would you believe them? I don’t know that I would. Irreparable harm has been done to the industry.
Are there though? 99% of all journalism school professors are most likely severe TDS sufferers.
"an organization that is not leftwing will become leftwing over time" because they get in, snake their way up the chain, then once they have power they gatekeep
Oh, I can think of a cure.
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Pffttt..did you actually READ her piece ? I just did.
She didn't quit because MSNBC is lying, bullshit progressive narrative.
She actually complained that they weren't doing enough to help the progressive cause by pushing Vote By Mail more.
Pffffttttt....
Her other big complaint was that they were chasing ratings. Oh la di di - a TV show chasing ratings - what a shocker, stop the presses...
Not surprised, it's just the cancer calling the other cancer not cancerous enough.
She used to work for NPR before that. Liberal who believes that media is not doing enough to pin the blame on the president
Not a liberal, leftist.
Radical leftist
Same shit, different view.
Yup, that’s what I got out of it too.
She seems to honestly believe in reporting the truth. Her problem is she thinks the Progressive angle is what the truth is. Blind to her own biases. How like a journalist.
She probably wants MSNBC to be more like the NY Times. To wrap the progressive bullshit in a more sophisticated wrapper. She probably hates being surrounded by circus clowns like Sharpton and Joe and Mika.
Everyone is blind to their own bias in one way or another. The difference only comes into play if you're willing to let yourself be made aware of your bias and try to get past it to do the objectively right thing.
She's whinging about how scary the future is for her.
She's so self-involved and self-important that she thinks not knowing where her next cushy gig will be is the real tragedy here, with seeming no awareness of who she's been working for, or any accountability for her actions to assist them to inflict the damage she admits they do on a daily basis.
Consequently, it makes me think this "letter" is more likely her attempt to create that cushy gig for herself by driving the traffic generated from this to her site, where she posted it.
Typical over-confident "journalist" maneuver, IMO. If she really wanted to make a statement she would've published a letter and given permission to who ever wanted to publish it. That would've insured the greatest coverage and most eyeballs reading it.
You'd think a journalist with her credentials would have known that prior to releasing the letter the way she did. Makes the decision to post on her blog even more transparent, IMO.
She talks about how she doesn't want to leave her beloved New York City but will reluctantly move to her home in Virginia. Where I am sure she will vote for mail-in voting and all her favorite leftist causes.
Don't shed a tear for this wolf in lamb's clothing.
If it were up to me, I say stop her at the border and not allow her to enter the commonwealth.
She is an admitted MSNBC Propagandist and declared enemy of the American people.
As Crowder would say; "change my mind".
This same thing is happening in tech as well. The incentives forces startups to make bad decisions. One classic example is where a startup offer a free service, hook users to their platform, and then monetises their privacy. Then it perverses the user experience based on the best monetary value for the company. This is exactly how we have Google, Facebook and Twitter turn into self censoring social justice warriors.
The problem with market system is, it optimises anything you throw at it. If you thorw something unethical, it maximises that as well.
That's not a problem with free market economics... that's a problem with moral decay of society.
Namely atheism, breakdown of the family...
Startup Culture only exists because of completely unregulated monopolies buying out everything under the sun. That leaves only one way to freely build something, and that is to start with selling out to the monopolies as the primary goal. With that kind of mindset permeating the entire industry there is no longer any room for ethics.
There are no long term consequences, those will be absorbed by the monopoly. There is no customer satisfaction or worthwhile causes, there is no real competition, you only need a temporary infusion of a niche market to attract purchasers to the silent auction.
It may be that they filled the only space left to the market, but living in the shadow of the monopolies isn't exactly 'free market economics' anymore.
Is the problem that they are unregulated? Or is it that people don't really care to build up their own companies and would rather sell out quick to Google or whoever in order to get rich in the short term?
As long as we allow people to be held responsible for their actions, it will still work out. For instance, if we are able to sue media for all their malicious reporting, you will find them suddenly develop integrity
Can't help but notice how many "good without God!" chanters are absolutely not good at all.
All amplified by that nasty little thing called the 19th...
It's beyond atheism. Ask anyone what their doctrine is. Be more worried about the ones that don't have one rather than the Darwinians.
you basically described the last 5 years of the Gaming industry...
Still really bothers me about games...the sjws infiltrated one of my favorite hobbies since I was 5, and now I can’t escape the bullshit. When smaller studios refuse to put black wheelchair bound non binary female furry otherkin vegans with bug eating exception into, let’s say, period European correct game, they get treated like they are shit. I just want to play games
I've watched the industry die from the inside, any decent human being with their opinions were being forced out starting more than a decade ago. It started with big names getting death threats against their families, and just leaving the industry altogether. Who can blame them?
Then it was the ones without a public face, because they "didn't fit the work culture." The smart ones got out early, the rest were forced out one way or another. Then the game design courses started pumping out liberal arts students with barely any practical knowledge at all, and the industry scooped them all up as if those pieces of paper had some kind of value beyond wiping asses.
Indie Games are the only safe market anymore. If you look carefully, and ignore the massive loads of crap, you find devs who just want to make entertaining games. And there are a few who have big game experience, who may or may not be bound by NDAs and not even allowed to claim prior experience in the industry.
bruh you don't wanna play Super Mario Xers??
Super implies they are better than the average person, your privilege is showing.
Ah.. the rise and fall of Myspace...lol
Actually many aspects of the tech these past 2 decades. Search engines, social media, peer to peer systems things like Amazon, Uber what not. The gig economy went a step further and managed to monetize exploitation. But the time comes for reckoning, instead of fixing their mistakes, they double down and blame everyone else.
Why wouldn't they? They see the choices as "keep peddling lies and shit for large amounts of money donated through various companies and organizations from people like Soros" or "tell the truth and make far less while having those same people target you for removal because you refuse to push the narrative they demand."
Greed is a thing that most people don't connect to this. There is a LOT of money being pushed around to get leftist thought made the only acceptable thought. It takes someone with a certain type of personality to simply pass on a bunch of money.
I completely agree about the greed aspect.
The problem is anonymous markets and a morally bankrupt society. If people had strong morals and knew who you were, you would think twice about doing shady things because the people would turn on you. Now you get praised for coming up with the biggest scams.
Well we cant have a system that only works if all people have strong morals. Thats whats great about capitalism and why socialism fails. In capitalism, when immoral behaviour surfaces, its accounted for via various mechanisms. Whereas in socialism, immoral behaviour will slowly push the society into abyss. This is what makes capitalism so great and so universal.
And never actually turns a profit. Evan Speigel is a billionaire but any bodega on a city street corner is a more profitable business than his.
Personally I think all the problems in our current society can be traced back to the mis-incentive we have for stock prices.
Executive bonuses are tied to stock performance. So they have no incentive to work on getting solid revenues. Just increase user base, hype up the product, get some idiots to speculate on their stocks, and cash in the bonus and move on to the next scam.
When the world's richest man didnt really create much profits, thats seriously wrong.
I can't believe when they flash 50 aggressive and repetitive ads per page for dog treats and customizable dog jackets... that cover over 50% of the screen, just because one time I asked google "what is a portugese water spaniel"... and I don't even have a dog... I just can't believe that advertising model isnt working for them. Who would have thought.
Hey, you know these things called smartphones? Yeah, these things that people are using all the time because they can access our content from their pockets in no time?
I know, let's NOT filter the ads we display on them, and allow redirect malvertisement that takes them to a different page that tries to convince them that there's malware on their phone.
What? Users are using browsers with adblockers now? Who would have known? Oh well, there's always the app!
I disagree, but I sympathize with the sentiment.
I think Google, and therefore China, needs to be made an example of and Sundar Pichai needs to be charged with perjury for his lies to Congress to start fixing the advertising business and Big Tech in general.
I think Google breaking up would cause their monopoly on the advertising market to fracture and allow real competition to be fostered in the industry again, assuming they break up Google the right way and don't just allow their competitors to absorb the pieces like "break-ups" in years past.
I know GEOTUS talked about looking at the anti-trust laws in general before. I couldn't agree with him more and think we need to make Google feel like the government went easy on US Steel and Ma Bell.
Google/Big Tech are some of the most anti-competitive, anti-American, elitists the world has ever known, with more power in their grasp than most realize.
I hope, with the right people on the legal team, with the right experts, Sundar "Pencil Neck" Pichai and Google will finally be brought to heel.
Adding competition into just about every industry they are involved is a good thing for the American consumer, IMO.
Competition is the solution to the advertising industry problems, and the solution to so many industry's issues in the US, IMO.
The free market is the reason for the prosperity we have today. If we forget that we will lose it.
Just like the monopolies of the "Robber Barons" in early 20th century US history, we now have oligopolies, which are functionally the same as far as the consumer is concerned, with or without overt collusion between concerns.
So many fiscally uneducated people see the "evils of Capitalism" when in fact the reason for the problems are a lack of Capitalism.
The free market solves problems, increases productivity, and most importantly protects consumers.
What if the mask policies were left up to the store owners and we let the free market decide?
When did we get in the habit of deciding which businesses were allowed to be open and which were closed? I thought we were supposed to let the people decide which ones they liked. I don't remember voting for any amendment that allowed anyone to dictate to me where I spend my hard-earned money.
Ok, rant over. Thanks guys. Just needed to get that out.
Crony capitalism is the end state of "total free market capitalism." When you have no regulation, or the regulation you have is not enforced, we get the situation that allows for the mess that we're dealing with today. The "free market" can only be free when you don't allow for things like google to get as large as they are today and simply buy up anyone that threatens their place.
You mentioned the Robber Barons, but you can't seem to grasp that those occurred because they had no limits placed on them so they did whatever they wanted to the detriment of everyone else. You're missing the fact that google, facebook, disney, and the rest are this centuries "Robber Barons" because they are not being kept in check by the laws and regulations put in place to keep them in check. You're arguing to make the problem worse, not better, by going full free market with no limits.
A free market only works when there are rules that everyone involved in knows and is forced to play by. There's a reason sandboxes have defined edges.
I know this was forever ago but I just saw it and wanted to say I don't disagree with your statement at all. A truly unfettered market with no regulation would be disastrous.
I think regulation reform is needed. We need to get rid of anti-competitive regulations, that are written by lobbyists, to create artificial barriers to entry into so many industries.
We need less consolidation not more, IMO. We need more players in the game in order for the consumer protections afforded by the free market to work effectively. We need actual choices instead the illusion of choice.
I think I agree with you largely on the principles of what is wrong, we just have different opinions on the best way to go about fixing it.
I don't even think our ideas are mutually exclusive. I think both will likely be needed if we are really going to fix our economy.
Journalism died when the news became 24/7 and people could access it 24/7. So you got opinion piece after opinion piece as it was something to fill the time.
Then the far left infected the news with their footsoldiers so they could tell the world their socialist opinions on things. Then overtime pushed all other opinions to the side or out the door.
You watch the news today you don't even get told what is happening around the world. Then the mass hysteria they generate about COVID-1984 by telling you 10 new cases in a population of millions is a bad thing.
I’d argue that journalism died the second they started pretending they were objective.
Journalism died a long time before that.
Operation Mockingbird never ended.
Imagine being so clueless, for so long, that you've been turning your own habitat into more and more of a violent shithole and even now only grasp the most rudimentary inklings that there might be something off enough that maybe you can just get rehired into different scenery or window dressing.
They do recognize themselves as propagandists and that's why they want to do it. They, mostly, don't really care about truth anymore. It's a career of prestigious activism with a high potential for and a clear path to palpable power.
In case you didn't read her actual masturbatory resignation letter, she thinks the industry is FAILING at being the proper propaganda disseminators that we mere plebes NEED.
Emphasis from quote in case folks miss it:
"but another hard truth is that it is the job of journalists to teach and inform, which means they might need to figure out a better way to do that."
That's damn near identical to Crazy Mika and her "that is our [the MSM] job (to control what people think)" hubris.
These people care 0 for truth and only for power and influence.
Enemy of the People. Cancer through and through.
Journalist are like prostitutes, you either take it in the ass or you go work down at the bakery. That's why all the news is based on shit written by assholes.
Stop demonizing all the "smart people with good intentions", it's not their fault they lie 24/7 and go out of their way to shape the narrative, it's just "the job forcing them to make bad decisions", the poor souls have no agency in any of it.
Burn in hell, the lot of you, all i see is rats trying to jump off the sinking ship that is mainstream media while scrambling to salvage some credibility. F-off.
"Mail in voting is important" - said no impartial journalist ever
I give it 48 hours before she's pumping out more fake news at CNN.
Choosing to work for fake news demonstrates bad decision making
Bruh
there used to be a clear line between the dayside "news" programing on cable news channels and the primetime commentary. Think of it like news content of a paper vs its editorial pages. However, as the "news" brings in less ratings, the editorialization started permeating all hours of programing. Any "news" show that has a main tile with the name of the presenter is going to be largely editorialized. This is fueled not only by macro level trends for ratings, but also the egos of the presenters themselves. Imagine presenting the news and being overshadowed by a commentator. The only way to regain your status is to offer commentary as well.
What then happens is, the internal environment is highly biased because most of the staff is working on political commentary shows, so there is no need to be impartial or uphold yourself to basic journalistic standards. This sets the tone for the larger organization, as interactions in the cafe, water cooler, etc are dominated by those who don't feel any professional pressure to remain impartial, because the entire focus of the content they are putting out is proudly biased commentary.
This culture takes over and the line between news and commentary completely falls apart. There is no group of "news" execs and "commentary" execs. It's all the same group of people.
Her article was is pretty good. As im flicking through her tweets shes actually a moron . blames trump for politicizing BLM then claims they aren't political because some "official" board said aren't.
In Thomas Jefferson's inaugural address he said "The freedom of religion, freedom of press, freedom of person" these are not the tenants of party they are the pillars of the republic.
Anyone thinking this is the person that leaked the floyd footage? Or was somehow involved?
Pfft.. Journalists? Ya right.
This is what winning looks like folks, enjoy!
Oxymorons, skilled journalists and pmsnbc in the same sentence
"Again, personally, I don’t think the people need to change. I think the job itself needs to change. There is a better way to do this. I’m not so cynical to think that we are absolutely doomed (though we are on that path). I know we can find a cure. If we can figure how to send a man to the moon, if Alex Trebek can defy the odds with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and if Harry Reid can actually overcome pancreatic cancer (he’s now cancer free), then we can fix this, too. "
This lady is not the brightest. We already have the cure. The cure is completely shutdown the likes of MSNBC and CNN, stop propping them up on youtube and on main cable channels, reform section 230 to make the internet fair again without mass banning of anything to the right of Mao Zedong, and utilize independent media and journalism that we already have out there producing content to give the masses information. People like Tim Pool are the solution, and we need to get more voices to be ALLOWED to do what he's doing without banning while we shutdown MSM for good
"Skilled Journalists" 😂
I guess this is a good thing, but how about naming names, and being more specific. These generic platitudes do nothing but make you look like you’re just not willing to go along anymore, with no real desire to root out the problem.
She's still an idiot.. her arguments are that they don't favor leftism more.
MSNPC had journalists?
One can only hope (pray?) that this practice continues and eventually leads to some new balanced news sites. By the way, I really like the website this article is from: justthenews.com - I will be adding it to my daily reading regimen.
Bad decisions like reporting for MSNBC.
He called them journalists lol.
Where did he think he was working?
She has a lot of privilege to be able to quit a job during a recessions.
Does MSNBC hire people of privilege?
They are concerned with how guests and stories will “rate” with their audience.
The “cure” is to go after stories and guests with views that will grow the audience rather than catering to a shrinking group of shrieking harpies.
I can’t believe these people who willingly decrease revenue and intentionally pass on 75% of the marketplace of viewers still have jobs.
National/Global media is not the place to limit the audience you are appealing to. Shareholders should fire these executives for being derelict in their responsibility to shareholders.
TL/DR It was the only way to stop the hammering.
Congrats, you showed your first common sense since thinking you were journalist. Glad you realized you are a propagandist.
I thought that’s what “journalism” is. Writing “stories”. Not reporting on facts.
This was always one of the points I made with the fake news propaganda that CNN, MSNBC, etc. put out.
Imagine going to school at Northwestern University, the best journalism school in the World, just to get hired by CNN and told to stalk Trump in order to ask him "Mr. President, are you a racist?" as he's walking away with his back turned to you after a press conference, all in the name of getting a soundbite that some ANTIFA loser is going to hear and chuckle at for two seconds.
Unless they're paying me well into the six figures, I would say "fuck you" and quit.
about a decade too late but still better late than never i guess.
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Good, people really are waking up.