Watching Media Outlets Die

The corporate owners of the press didn't buy the outlets to be the watchdog of government but rather to control the people with the government's approval. The media is not their main business but a cost they bear to push their real agenda, be it the sale of prescription drugs, selling China garbage or obtaining deals from the Swamp to expedite their main business.

If these outlets did what they’re supposed to do – namely, 'report' using the 5 W's + 1 H they would have a better chance of surviving. Facts are facts, history is history and neither need interpretation nor embellishment.

Which media outlets have died,exactly?

Journalism has been replaced with propagandism (is that a word?). It will never die because the government will subsidize it along with various big money interests.

"People will think what I tell them to think!" Charles Foster Kane

There was an article a few months ago that pointed out something interesting. The newspapers owned by the far-left media firm Gannett are losing subscribers at a far higher rate than other newspapers. Gannett, which is currently the largest newspaper chain in the country, keeps losing tons of money and has to regularly fire journalists due to the lack of readership. I recall reading a recent article in the New York Post that detailed the number of conservative columnists and conservative political cartoonists employed by Gannett newspapers -- there was one conservative columnist and zero conservative political cartoonists.

But…it’s all for the children! Don’t ya know! Silly rubes that we are!

With all its faults, I will always thank the internet for breaking the monopoly of the TV and newspaper media.

My favorite story from yesterday was the reporter who attacked a 5 year old Kansas Chiefs fan who came to the game dressed in Black and Red face paint wearing an Indian headdress.....he was rooting for his team...but...some fool reporter said he was in black face and he was a bigot...well...it turns out this little munchkin is Native American and now his parents need to sue the reporter for attacking their son.....oh...I just love this story....

The big leftist mouthpieces have a nice advantage - they are often corporately owned and their 'rich uncle' keeps them going. Comcast is a cable carrier and NBC is owned by Comcast! Disney/ABC even Fox follow this pattern. Add in the archaic bundling of cable channels and the archaic distribution of revenue to those undeserving eg CNN and yes it seems these media cancers will be around forever. But...it isn't all bad news. Local papers continue to circle the drain. They, too, have corporate ownership now in Gannett, McClathy et al but the offerings are paltry, the newsroom is staffed by idiot greenhorns and interns and advertisers have stopped throwing good money after bad. Local news is also suffering. Car dealers have been their financial advertising lifeline for decades but car dealers are falling on hard times, not least because they have no cars to sell. The local newsers love to moan about tight budgets and competition for jobs but when their lead story is 'Wear a coat in the cold winter weather' what good are they to anyone, really? They went all-in on covid panic because people stuck at home might tune in. But people got tired of the hype and propaganda. Jezebel, Gawker and numerous other hipster sites have been shut down. In each case the hacks working there complained about the loss of journalism etc. but the world seems to keep spinning. Unfortunately, media consolidation means more Big Brother type unity of message and more Big Brother type punishment of dissent. But the average person has become savvy out of necessity in checking multiple sites for facts and forming his own conclusion. We can't do much about Granny watching 60 Minutes but they are both aging quickly.