I alway looked at that as the result of a progression of ever-lazier and inferior minds, which are now the criteria of MSM newsrooms, both basically scanning Twitter for the most re-tweeted bits as an acknowledgment that they’ll never have anything interesting to say about anything (and will cede to the masses). But in a more positive spin, I suppose - and this is something that I hope ultimately will get the most traction, it’s that they’re also bringing in views (Al Jazeera does a great job of often presenting illuminating points of view from their international viewers ) that give more credence to the long unacknowledged truth that the masses often have more sound and broader views that the paid punditry.
I mean, whenever most of these highly paid clowns on cable news (forget local news broadcasts which are just crammed with the most stilted of zombies) go off script or extemporize it’s clear they’re just a bunch of toady flunkies for the corporate state.
It helps to remember that the entire media space is designed to propagate commercial advertisements. Everything outside the airing of ads is a cost-center to be reduced. So the issue isn't of laziness or inferiority of intellect, its simply of cost-controls and budget cuts, as the media industry looks to get as wide a profit margin as possible.
once the news started airing twitter posts from randoms as part of their regular media coverage, it became a reality show
I alway looked at that as the result of a progression of ever-lazier and inferior minds, which are now the criteria of MSM newsrooms, both basically scanning Twitter for the most re-tweeted bits as an acknowledgment that they’ll never have anything interesting to say about anything (and will cede to the masses). But in a more positive spin, I suppose - and this is something that I hope ultimately will get the most traction, it’s that they’re also bringing in views (Al Jazeera does a great job of often presenting illuminating points of view from their international viewers ) that give more credence to the long unacknowledged truth that the masses often have more sound and broader views that the paid punditry.
I mean, whenever most of these highly paid clowns on cable news (forget local news broadcasts which are just crammed with the most stilted of zombies) go off script or extemporize it’s clear they’re just a bunch of toady flunkies for the corporate state.
It helps to remember that the entire media space is designed to propagate commercial advertisements. Everything outside the airing of ads is a cost-center to be reduced. So the issue isn't of laziness or inferiority of intellect, its simply of cost-controls and budget cuts, as the media industry looks to get as wide a profit margin as possible.