This is the 21st century version of the local TV news broadcasters from the end of the 20th century:
“Some beef products are killing our city’s residents, 10 now dead. Find out if you have these in your fridge right now when we return from this commercial break”.
“Tonight at 11”
Fighting the Frizzies at 11
This is the thing I hate so much with the news now (or one of the things ig)
They still do this.
New poll shows whether Harris or Trump is leading in favorability rating
A recently-released poll purports to contain information about the current relative popularity of presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump with voters. We heard reports that the poll’s findings are “informative”, yet “probably outdated in two weeks”. The intended target audience is people with an interest in American politics who can read and compare numbers, although sources informed us that one or more graphical representation (or “graph”) is provided for less mathematically-inclined people.
At press time, the Democrats have confirmed that the poll indeed shows relative popularity numbers while Donald Trump merely remarked that “we have the best polls, tremendous polls, everyone tells me about the numbers, it’s great”.
Pundits suggest that this kind of poll is commonly associated with the election season and that further polls are likely. We will keep you informed as the situation develops.
Saved me a click
And just in case… /s
Bravo 👏
Serious question, where is reliable information supposed to come from if we as readers
A: refuse to pay for news services
B: refuse to consume advertising as an alternative
Because that leaves
C: external funding by media conglomerates and political groups
public funding?
incoherent screeching about xyz media outlet being a government mouthpiece
We have NPR in the US, so that’s something at least
NPR* has literally saved some of my family from going completely batshit as the only other options in some areas is the bat shit right wing talk radio.
It’s a hard balance I agree. If advertisements weren’t so unusable on pages I’d be inclined to leave my ad block off.
I pay for news before because I support having a well written journalism. But not everyone has that luxury.
Journalism is expensive. But I don’t know if parasitic ads are the answer. I don’t want to compromise my privacy to read news.
If someone can Crack that nut and come up with a 3rd option they’ll laugh their way to the bank.
That happens anyway because line go up. Don’t pretend that media stays “independent” if it gets enough funding from viewers directly. Even if it’s from advertisers, they use that buying power to influence editorial decisions. But they’ll still take oligarch money if it’s backed up to their doorstep.
Edit: maybe the Guardian is the exception, but they still toe the line on many issues.
Reuters and AP.
Welcome to CNN and Huffington Post. Click here to find out if we know who you are.
Owner-class media trust is at an all-time low, but it will be interesting how capitalism continues to change them.
Independent media seems to be going with ads, grassroots funding, and/or membership dues.
You know what got me upset right now is that pretty soon “a news happened” is all they will need to say to get you to click, because the algorithm will know you well enough to predict the stories that interest you, and will reliably provide interesting stories so we all end up trusting it completely. “A News Happened” and your pavlovian lizard brain will stand at attention because it consistently scratches that itch.
