A major blow to the media was the loss of what was once called 'investigative journalism'.
Investigative journalism was a niche sector in journalism that only larger media companies could engage in, but it was always the ghost in the machine: the real raison d'être. The reason for this is that it took years to fully and decisively investigate a complex case; sometimes, years would go into an investigation only to discover that it was a dead end.
For that reason, not every media organization could marshall its feeble resources into such a venture.
There were some spectacular successes in the world of investigative journalism, such as Three Mile Island, the McDonald's slavery case, various serial killer cases, etc.
Unfortunately, in our day and age, it seems to have gone the way of the dodo. Organizations simply do not have the discipline, forbearance or financial wherewithal to fund a multi-year investigation that might end up without a sellable story.
It is much easier to simply cherry-pick a few choice phrases and shoot them out like so many memes. By the time they are discredited or nuanced, the media organization will have gone on to another hot button topic.
In the end, readers are not better informed and are simply going for click-bait. With the shift to citizen journalism, thanks to the empowerment of the individual, we may see a return to investigative journalism on a micro scale.
I recall that, after the Trump assassination attempt, various YouTubers conducted forensic examinations using information online to create a timeline and hypothesize on the flow of events. They did this quite successfully.
In contrast, the conventional media was silent and the authorities tight-lipped.
So there is a spark of hope... maybe the ghost in the machine is not a ghost after all:)
Thankfully, there are folks like James O'Keefe keeping the independent investigative media alive and well. He's dug up a lot of dirt and he's taken a lot of flak doing it.
There are two major problems at work: 1) the audience attention span has dropped to Tik-Tok time spans; and 2) the GeezerMedia is owned by mega-holding companies who interests are at odds with deep dives that can expose their interests to unflattering light. See O'Keefe's Disney expose as an example.
When news departments were cost centers and prestige operations, they reported real news. Now they are profit centers and cater to a 5th-grade mentality. If it bleeds, it leads, as they say. I'm still divided on the demise of the Fairness Doctrine in US media, but one of the adverse effects has been for the media to cozy up to government insiders, and they get and maintain "access" by reporting stories the way they are told. A perfect example was the Frankenflu, whree gov't agencies promoted mandates and Frankenvaxxx, while Pfizer and Moderna were top advertisers. All parties had a vested interested in pimping the narradigm, and only private jounalists dug deep into the scam.
There's no way to repair it, so the only way out is to kill it. Private individuals and organizations have all the same tools now and more time to dig. The GeezerMedia clambakes have run their course.
Now I've got Monty Python running through my brain, and it's all your fault. Which tip jar? *panic*
The puffballs don't want to get their hands dirty or their hair mussed. Like certain candidates, they excel at reading Tele-Prompt-Rs, but put them out in the field and they crrumble. It all started heading down hill when looks and wardrobe took precedence over content and character. Celebrity news readers won't jeopardize their bloated paychecks by stepping out of line, and so here we are. Most of the puffballs I know can't even form a full sentence without a script. Sad, really.
"The pinnacle of broadcast news occurred on 22 November 1963, when a live audience witnessed the assassination of a US president "
Never happened. The Dallas motorcade was not televised; and the Zapruder film was hidden from public view till Geraldo Rivera finally showed it to the American people in 1975, twelve years after the assassination.
True, but the reports started about 20 minutes after the event. That was the first time a major news event had been televised as it happened, with live feeds from Parkland and updates every few minutes. It was a watershed moment in television history. Elizabeth II's coronation in June 1953 was probably the first major planned event televised, but that only wnet out to 27 million viewers in the Isles. JFK was a global event, unplanned as it happened. It changed television news coverage forever.
I pray your right-there is so much reporting about fraud in the swing states. Here in Phoenix, largest county says it will be 14 days till results are known. Those that know, illegal routers were in Dominion machines, sent to AT&T server in memphis Tenn, then to Spain. , Xmas day 2021 , the server building disappeared! To quote the great Cormec MCCartht, there is no such thing as a coincidence. The Kommies are in an all out war on 'merica-the last obstacle to global tyranny. The net is now being censored big time-I can personally attest to that fact
The US Constitution grants the State Legislatures full plenary power over their elections. Put the sweat on your local reps to force the election commission to release a quick count on the night. The SecState can take several weeks to certify, but the count must be made public no later than midnight. If they can do it here in Indonesia, a country roughly the same size with the same population that's 75% water, the US certainly can.
And start giving the bureau-rats some jail time. That'll speed them up.
The fourth estate was hijacked long ago by MI6 and CIA Journalists are actors reading propoganda-and we live in the land of the free! CNN was written down zero by its corporate owner, yet still is in the game bolstered by the war spending of the MIC. The four mainstream stations are fumded by Pharm/taxpayer grift. Thery're not dead yet- Picture a world spinning back in time and those nefarious players are committing those same crimes. The BBC and Rueter's is the fourth estate and they are spinning the same fairy tales.
When Trump is re-elected on Tuesday, the GeezerMedia is dead n the water. Why keep paying to run those worthless operations is no one is watching and the control levers aren't controlling. The Mockngbird operation worked quite well for a long time, but once you see how the trick is done, the magic is gone. It took nearly a century, but the fog is lifting, and the internet changed everything forever. Genies don't fit back in the bottles they came from.
A major blow to the media was the loss of what was once called 'investigative journalism'.
Investigative journalism was a niche sector in journalism that only larger media companies could engage in, but it was always the ghost in the machine: the real raison d'être. The reason for this is that it took years to fully and decisively investigate a complex case; sometimes, years would go into an investigation only to discover that it was a dead end.
For that reason, not every media organization could marshall its feeble resources into such a venture.
There were some spectacular successes in the world of investigative journalism, such as Three Mile Island, the McDonald's slavery case, various serial killer cases, etc.
Unfortunately, in our day and age, it seems to have gone the way of the dodo. Organizations simply do not have the discipline, forbearance or financial wherewithal to fund a multi-year investigation that might end up without a sellable story.
It is much easier to simply cherry-pick a few choice phrases and shoot them out like so many memes. By the time they are discredited or nuanced, the media organization will have gone on to another hot button topic.
In the end, readers are not better informed and are simply going for click-bait. With the shift to citizen journalism, thanks to the empowerment of the individual, we may see a return to investigative journalism on a micro scale.
I recall that, after the Trump assassination attempt, various YouTubers conducted forensic examinations using information online to create a timeline and hypothesize on the flow of events. They did this quite successfully.
In contrast, the conventional media was silent and the authorities tight-lipped.
So there is a spark of hope... maybe the ghost in the machine is not a ghost after all:)
Thankfully, there are folks like James O'Keefe keeping the independent investigative media alive and well. He's dug up a lot of dirt and he's taken a lot of flak doing it.
There are two major problems at work: 1) the audience attention span has dropped to Tik-Tok time spans; and 2) the GeezerMedia is owned by mega-holding companies who interests are at odds with deep dives that can expose their interests to unflattering light. See O'Keefe's Disney expose as an example.
When news departments were cost centers and prestige operations, they reported real news. Now they are profit centers and cater to a 5th-grade mentality. If it bleeds, it leads, as they say. I'm still divided on the demise of the Fairness Doctrine in US media, but one of the adverse effects has been for the media to cozy up to government insiders, and they get and maintain "access" by reporting stories the way they are told. A perfect example was the Frankenflu, whree gov't agencies promoted mandates and Frankenvaxxx, while Pfizer and Moderna were top advertisers. All parties had a vested interested in pimping the narradigm, and only private jounalists dug deep into the scam.
There's no way to repair it, so the only way out is to kill it. Private individuals and organizations have all the same tools now and more time to dig. The GeezerMedia clambakes have run their course.
"Ode to the Geezer"? I'm not dead yet. Your tip jar still isn't working.
I will not miss the GeezerMedia. The show is over. All of it... media, government, voting...
The audience saw what was behind the Wizard of Oz' curtain during Covid.
We are gone and not coming back to the show.
Now I've got Monty Python running through my brain, and it's all your fault. Which tip jar? *panic*
The puffballs don't want to get their hands dirty or their hair mussed. Like certain candidates, they excel at reading Tele-Prompt-Rs, but put them out in the field and they crrumble. It all started heading down hill when looks and wardrobe took precedence over content and character. Celebrity news readers won't jeopardize their bloated paychecks by stepping out of line, and so here we are. Most of the puffballs I know can't even form a full sentence without a script. Sad, really.
Rufus, Tip Jar is for donations to your coffee fund on Substack.
Yeah, it's sad when the actors can't even memorize their lines.
"The pinnacle of broadcast news occurred on 22 November 1963, when a live audience witnessed the assassination of a US president "
Never happened. The Dallas motorcade was not televised; and the Zapruder film was hidden from public view till Geraldo Rivera finally showed it to the American people in 1975, twelve years after the assassination.
True, but the reports started about 20 minutes after the event. That was the first time a major news event had been televised as it happened, with live feeds from Parkland and updates every few minutes. It was a watershed moment in television history. Elizabeth II's coronation in June 1953 was probably the first major planned event televised, but that only wnet out to 27 million viewers in the Isles. JFK was a global event, unplanned as it happened. It changed television news coverage forever.
I pray your right-there is so much reporting about fraud in the swing states. Here in Phoenix, largest county says it will be 14 days till results are known. Those that know, illegal routers were in Dominion machines, sent to AT&T server in memphis Tenn, then to Spain. , Xmas day 2021 , the server building disappeared! To quote the great Cormec MCCartht, there is no such thing as a coincidence. The Kommies are in an all out war on 'merica-the last obstacle to global tyranny. The net is now being censored big time-I can personally attest to that fact
The US Constitution grants the State Legislatures full plenary power over their elections. Put the sweat on your local reps to force the election commission to release a quick count on the night. The SecState can take several weeks to certify, but the count must be made public no later than midnight. If they can do it here in Indonesia, a country roughly the same size with the same population that's 75% water, the US certainly can.
And start giving the bureau-rats some jail time. That'll speed them up.
The fourth estate was hijacked long ago by MI6 and CIA Journalists are actors reading propoganda-and we live in the land of the free! CNN was written down zero by its corporate owner, yet still is in the game bolstered by the war spending of the MIC. The four mainstream stations are fumded by Pharm/taxpayer grift. Thery're not dead yet- Picture a world spinning back in time and those nefarious players are committing those same crimes. The BBC and Rueter's is the fourth estate and they are spinning the same fairy tales.
When Trump is re-elected on Tuesday, the GeezerMedia is dead n the water. Why keep paying to run those worthless operations is no one is watching and the control levers aren't controlling. The Mockngbird operation worked quite well for a long time, but once you see how the trick is done, the magic is gone. It took nearly a century, but the fog is lifting, and the internet changed everything forever. Genies don't fit back in the bottles they came from.
The Dems control the state electoral process in 'Zona. They answer to the Corp in DC. Love your Sunday sermon from the Far Side!