his show is a product being delivered to a specific market
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Maher knows his audience is mostly well-off white liberal boomers, and his show is catered to them.
Yeah, but you could say this shit about virtually every corner of premium cable. Declaring everything on cable off-limits because its specifically marked to people who can afford premium media services gives a pass to virtually all modern media.
IDK, it justs seems kind of masturbatory to point out that the show made for annoying boomers has annoying boomer takes.
Every criticism made on the internet by internet people aimed at other internet people is masturbatory. But you're on the internet, in a forum that does take-downs of internet people. You're hip-deep in cum already. Too late to wash your hands of it.
Declaring everything on cable off-limits because its specifically marked to people who can afford premium media services gives a pass to virtually all modern media.
Yes, wanting criticism of mainstream media from the left to have more substance than "the guy who gets paid to say boomer shit said some boomer shit, can you believe it?" is declaring all cable shows off-limits for criticism. This is exactly what I said.
It was a very particular critique of a very particularly tasteless segment.
Maher managed to hit the trifecta of:
Shamelessly denigrating the dead
Feeding the Missing White Woman Hysteria
Kicking Millennials for the crime of being not-rich and not-old
inside a handful of minutes, to no real purpose. It is an exceptionally bad take for a litany of reasons, and if you're in the business of bagging on shit takes Bill may as well have painted a bullseye on the segment for you.
And my critique of that was, "is anyone surprised?" People on here talk sometimes about how frustrating it is that we have no politics left except the politics of greivance and cyclical outrage, but then stan lefty owns of liberal media that are basically just recreating that same pattern.
If you're in the business of bagging on shit takes, I don't think it's such a hard thing to ask that the bagger contextualize why this person gets to make shit takes in the first place, not just offering a critique of the shit take itself. And if we're saying that this is a video aimed at peeling off libs from Maher's audiance, then that critique goes double. Is is better to foster a new understanding of media that gets into the material motivations behind Maher's shit-take industry? Or just to create a competing market of consumption - one which, frankly, needs Maher (and others like him) around making shit takes to sustain itself?
:very-intelligent:
Yeah, but you could say this shit about virtually every corner of premium cable. Declaring everything on cable off-limits because its specifically marked to people who can afford premium media services gives a pass to virtually all modern media.
Every criticism made on the internet by internet people aimed at other internet people is masturbatory. But you're on the internet, in a forum that does take-downs of internet people. You're hip-deep in cum already. Too late to wash your hands of it.
Yes, wanting criticism of mainstream media from the left to have more substance than "the guy who gets paid to say boomer shit said some boomer shit, can you believe it?" is declaring all cable shows off-limits for criticism. This is exactly what I said.
It was a very particular critique of a very particularly tasteless segment.
Maher managed to hit the trifecta of:
inside a handful of minutes, to no real purpose. It is an exceptionally bad take for a litany of reasons, and if you're in the business of bagging on shit takes Bill may as well have painted a bullseye on the segment for you.
And my critique of that was, "is anyone surprised?" People on here talk sometimes about how frustrating it is that we have no politics left except the politics of greivance and cyclical outrage, but then stan lefty owns of liberal media that are basically just recreating that same pattern.
If you're in the business of bagging on shit takes, I don't think it's such a hard thing to ask that the bagger contextualize why this person gets to make shit takes in the first place, not just offering a critique of the shit take itself. And if we're saying that this is a video aimed at peeling off libs from Maher's audiance, then that critique goes double. Is is better to foster a new understanding of media that gets into the material motivations behind Maher's shit-take industry? Or just to create a competing market of consumption - one which, frankly, needs Maher (and others like him) around making shit takes to sustain itself?