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IMHO This is a brilliant piece from the Cat Man .
This confirms for me something I’ve been suspecting for a while now
ALL news organizations …from the Legacy media to big tech to Alt Media to Individual Bloggers
are after the same thing…Eyeballs…And we individually and collectively choose what we are interested in …
The World of “News” is changing rapidly . This is an eye opener if you can let the cat Man’s
Premise in for a moment .
Audept and I feel fortunate to have this platform to explore this brave News World with all of you.
We are not all that interested in Numbers of Eyeballs . We have a few Thousand Regular viewers but we really don’t know the exact number and dont care…we have resisted any impulses monetize
No advertisers we are beholding to …No Subscriptions to sell … Just a place for decent self respecting truth seeking folks to participate …
What do we get for all our effort …we get to know all the great posters this place has attracted
We feel gratified to be supported by those who read regularly ….and most of all we get to know we are NOT alone in the way we live our lives and the way we think .
Anyhow here is The Cat Man’s Epic Piece…Something special IMO
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/back-to-the-future-modern-media-emulates?s=r
Have a good friend who wants me to subscribe to Mark Crispin Miller.
I have refused.
Not because I don’t trust his work.
I just don’t want to FEEL locked into any one person’s perspectives, even if I judge them to be well formed. No one is infallible. Everyone has their biases.
Instead, given my academic background especially, I believe in COMPETITION.
And that extends to IDEAS.
The MSM is run in a centralized manner, with editorial boards and private interests presiding over what gets covered (or not) and how it gets covered. Its also opaque, as we have no visibility on that editorial process. We can assume, however, that its AGENDA DRIVEN. Not just monetizing eyeballs (really think Amazon’s Bezos bought WaPo for its profits?)
Instead, I prefer a more wide ranging approach.
(I use an RSS reader client on my PC, loaded to the gills>)
We need Competition among news sources, competition in politics (not a duopoly), and competition in rendering justice (not a single top dog gatekeeper). The US thrived by letting each State explore its own way of handling issues (like FL is doing recently).
But that perspective prevails primarily among libertarians. Its foreign to Type A personalities, and to sociopaths.
On the opposite side of the fence is the radical Left, and those tied into the WEF. They want extreme CENTRALIZATION of power and influence. They believe in the primacy of their own wisdom. History tells us where that leads.
Great column by Catman.
And did it all start with Jerry Springer?? LOL.