{"id":21935,"date":"2023-01-24T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=21935"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:54:48","slug":"contractions-in-the-media-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/contractions-in-the-media-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractions in the Media World"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw a couple of articles about companies off-loading media properties.\u00a0 ABC is trying to sell Nate Silver’s 538 site<\/a>.\u00a0 And it’s rumored that Jeff Bezos needs to sell off the Washington Post as part of a deal to buy a football team.<\/p>\n

These are smaller parts of a bigger story.\u00a0 ABC is trying to shed costs because Disney is looking to sell ABC and ESPN and wants to make them look less like money-losing properties than they are.<\/p>\n

And this same loss of profitability is a general situation.\u00a0 CNN is tanking and its competitors; MSNBC and Fox are also suffering ratings slumps.\u00a0 Even streaming giant Netflix is feeling the pinch.\u00a0 And Amazon is seeing red ink in various entertainment departments.<\/p>\n

And how is any of this surprising?\u00a0 These media companies don’t provide valuable products either as journalism or entertainment.\u00a0 They despise their customers and provide content that is poorly done and rarely helpful to its consumers.\u00a0 Watching what passes for network news is painful and rarely rises to the level of professional journalism or even honest reporting of the facts.<\/p>\n

And what Hollywood tries to pass off as entertainment is an outrage.\u00a0 Except for a very small proportion of the cable shows everything is hopelessly derivative and completely lacking in interest.\u00a0 The network television shows, the police procedurals and situation comedies have fallen below the level of high school theatrical productions.\u00a0 The scripts are worse than hack work.\u00a0 The actors are uninspired and amateurish.\u00a0 The only thing that keeps the whole thing from completely imploding is the low expectations of the Millennial viewers and the desperation of the sponsors who need some outlet for their commercials.<\/p>\n

Back in the 1960s they called television the “great wasteland.”\u00a0 If those culture critics could have foreseen what passes for television to day they would have begged the forgiveness of the network executives who provided a product that was at least geared to people of average intelligence.\u00a0 Their modern day successors have crafted a product that even marching morons would run screaming from.<\/p>\n

And that’s why I buy DVDs.\u00a0 If I find a good show I buy it and add it to the Noah’s Ark of entertainment that I maintain.\u00a0 Re-watching a one or ten or eighty year old movie is infinitely preferable to suffering through some new piece of tripe that will insult my intelligence and my morals.\u00a0 And that’s why I’m so grateful for conservative critics who can pass along news of that rarest of unicorns, something new that’s worth watching.<\/p>\n

So let ABC and the rest of the alphabet soup go out of business.\u00a0 Let Disney’s next fifty gay rom-com cartoons crash and burn on the runway.\u00a0 There’s plenty of old entertainment to watch and there will be some good things made by someone, somehow.<\/p>\n

The big problem is finding reliable news.\u00a0 The truth is not something that corporate America allows.\u00a0 For that you have to go to small venues and the rare big media exception like Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n

But you always have OCF (Orion’s cold Fire).\u00a0 What could be better than that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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