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waitingmanSometimes I think this 24 hour news cycle is a bad thing. Networks & now news websites are so desperate for something new to post or broadcast every 5 minutes, that they'll jump at anything, or anyone, who looks like they'll be 'news', no matter whether it's credible, or most often... not
That's how we got Trump - he used the media to build a platform, build a base & then peddle his divisive dribble all the way to the White House & thendoubled tripled down on it. Even now, even as it's obvious to all but himself & his deranged, racist, supremacist 'base' that his Presidency is over
That's how we also get dangerous, science-denying, anti-vaccination & Covid conspiracy theorists like Australia's own Pete Evans - who started out innocuously enough as yet another 'celebrity' chef, parlayed it into TV & book deals, then began unleashing his inner loony, peddling alternative diets, 'health' products & therapies that flew & still fly in the face of all medical knowledge. Doesn't matter, he's taken a leaf out of Trump's playbook &doubles triples down on his denials & then does... this... posting nazi symbols without a thought for consequence
So when did the 'news' cease to be an information service & became more like one of those morning TV shows peddling 'advertorials' & dodgy products, then allowing opinions to replace known facts? It's no wonder nobody trusts journalism any more... It's not actually Trump's fault that 'Fake News' is how the heaving masses see all journalism these days, as most of it stopped caring about fact-checking, integrity, balance & quality a long time ago, in pursuit of the advertising dollars that were supposed to fund the 'proper' investigative reporting, but instead got spent on... well god only knows what, because now they all want us to pay a subscription to their sites in order to find out if we're at war or not. It's like Foxtel making me pay every month to watch shows that still have ad breaks in them. Talk about double-dipping!! I'll subscribe when that makes all the advertising disappear from the page I'm reading. Otherwise, go fuck yourselves
That's how we got Trump - he used the media to build a platform, build a base & then peddle his divisive dribble all the way to the White House & then
That's how we also get dangerous, science-denying, anti-vaccination & Covid conspiracy theorists like Australia's own Pete Evans - who started out innocuously enough as yet another 'celebrity' chef, parlayed it into TV & book deals, then began unleashing his inner loony, peddling alternative diets, 'health' products & therapies that flew & still fly in the face of all medical knowledge. Doesn't matter, he's taken a leaf out of Trump's playbook &
So when did the 'news' cease to be an information service & became more like one of those morning TV shows peddling 'advertorials' & dodgy products, then allowing opinions to replace known facts? It's no wonder nobody trusts journalism any more... It's not actually Trump's fault that 'Fake News' is how the heaving masses see all journalism these days, as most of it stopped caring about fact-checking, integrity, balance & quality a long time ago, in pursuit of the advertising dollars that were supposed to fund the 'proper' investigative reporting, but instead got spent on... well god only knows what, because now they all want us to pay a subscription to their sites in order to find out if we're at war or not. It's like Foxtel making me pay every month to watch shows that still have ad breaks in them. Talk about double-dipping!! I'll subscribe when that makes all the advertising disappear from the page I'm reading. Otherwise, go fuck yourselves
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Date: 2020-11-16 02:39 pm (UTC)