{"id":27365,"date":"2024-02-01T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=27365"},"modified":"2024-01-31T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T20:44:55","slug":"okay-lets-talk-about-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/01\/okay-lets-talk-about-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay, Let\u2019s Talk About Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, we all laughed while Taylor Lorentz wailed<\/a> about the \u201cSlaughter of the Innocents\u201d among the millennial generation of journalists.\u00a0 Of course, we did.\u00a0 Everyone on our side despises them because they are everything that is wrong about the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

They are dishonest, stupid, lazy and almost completely unqualified to perform their primary mission; discover what is happening in the world and communicate it to the people reading, listening and watching their news outlets.\u00a0 Instead, they have become the Ministry of Truth.\u00a0 And thereby, they have deserved the monumental collapse in public trust in them and also the huge drops in paying audience.<\/p>\n

Now, fair to say, a part of the lost audience is not directly related to their lack of skill and honesty.\u00a0 The internet has upended the financial model that used to govern how newspapers and other forms of journalism made their money; advertising.<\/p>\n

Google and Facebook have swallowed almost all the advertising dollars by means of their surveillance of people\u2019s search histories and other internet activity.\u00a0 So, it\u2019s not fair to blame media\u2019s collapsing profits completely on their lousy work.\u00a0 And in fact, some countries (e.g., Australia) are now forcing Facebook to pay news sites for the content that they allow people to post on their Facebook pages.\u00a0 But the new world is what it is.\u00a0 News sites are struggling to keep their doors open.<\/p>\n

Well, okay.\u00a0 What that means is that news will become a subscription-based product.\u00a0 People will have to pay for what they want to read or see.\u00a0 And most people tend to be unwilling to pay money to be insulted.\u00a0 Which means one of two approaches must be adopted by the news corporations.<\/p>\n

The first approach is to continue with what they currently do.\u00a0 They can keep up a far-left-biased version of the news which insults half of the viewing public.\u00a0 And this means building their financial model based on whatever payments they calculate they can get from the left-leaning half of the country.<\/p>\n

The second approach is to try to perform objective journalism and get money from anyone who wants to know what\u2019s actually going on in the world.\u00a0 Now this would be a wholly novel idea.\u00a0 So far, it\u2019s never been tried by any major news organization.\u00a0 And for all I know maybe it would produce less income than the first approach.\u00a0 But I tend to believe that providing unbiased news coverage and separating it completely from a program that featured opinion pieces from both sides of the partisan divide would serve the public better and at the same time would make more money.<\/p>\n

And why do I think unbiased news would make more money?\u00a0 Because we\u2019ve seen what the opposite looks like.\u00a0 The opposite of unbiased news is Taylor Lorentz.\u00a0 And that model is crashing and burning from coast to coast.\u00a0 And it will get worse.\u00a0 Eventually, people will get to pay a la carte for their media.\u00a0 When that happens places like CNN, MSNBC and Fox News will either have to provide the public what they want or go out of business.<\/p>\n

And all of this is actually for the good.\u00a0 We pay for the awful cable companies with our cable bill and we never get our money\u2019s worth.\u00a0 I would pay extra if none of my money went to ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and certainly not MSNBC and CNN.\u00a0 Of late Fox News has been barely half a step better than these.\u00a0 If my internet provider would charge a fair price for access to the internet and I could choose from the media options that I preferred and paid for nothing else it would be a much better world.\u00a0 Instead of five or ten large leftist media outlets there would probably be one or two at most.<\/p>\n

And from where I stand that would be a vast improvement.\u00a0 Because that would mean that about eighty percent of the obnoxious leftist journalists currently employed by these woke fake-news corporations would be driving cabs and waiting tables in New York and DC.\u00a0 Sorry Taylor Lorentz, but that\u2019s what should happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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