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Buy a gun. Organize. Use it.
Enact change
Stop pretending that you are powerless
Yeah, that’ll give us the illusion of power. A gun!
Which cities were the ones that were most targeted by ICE? The ones with strict gun control. I don’t think that was a coincidence.
Maybe some correlation it’s not the reason why. Your tinfoil hat is too tight, and it’s restricting bloodflow to your brain.
The cities most targeted by ICE tend to be blue politically, and that comes with a culture that generally agrees that there should be some barriers in place when buying a weapon. They also generally have the belief that people should not be tortured and kicked out of the US even if they’re darker than a hotel towel or have a scary last name.
Places like that tend to vote for people that would try to oppose everything the Trump admin is doing.
Sure there are a multitude of reasons. But we saw it clear as day on Minneapolis vs was it Philadelphia that had the Black Panthers show up while own carrying? Which one had fatalities caused by the police?
Things were never the same after CNN made the news ticker permanent on 9/11/01
I miss when news sources were just the paper and nightly local news.
I wonder how hard it would be to sell people on a news site subscription that just updates once a day with actual journalism instead of click-bait headlines to drive ad revenue and AI articles.
A Danish news paper have succeeded in doing that: https://www.zetland.media/zetland
And it is fucking great, it’s the only subscription I’ve never questioned.
Peter Jennings was a real one.
Cronkite, too.
100%
it was always like that, what is blud talking about
Not before Reagan
Yeah until Reagan it was just normal factual news (don’t laugh!) and definitely no segregation, wars, red scare campaigns, random ass moral panics that news would help narrativize
I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I’m saying getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine was when it went mask-off
blame CNN.
They created the modern 24 hour news cycle, which slowly destroyed news media in general over the next 40 years.
There is not enough happening to sustain a 24 hour news cycle, so it becomes constant hammering of the slightest incidents, or crimes from 800lbs a way, or whatever it takes.
Thus creating the guise, for people not capable of critical thought, that the world is on fire and crime is rampant. . when they are seeing nothing but the same crime being reported on 200 times over 2 days, and the occasional incident from somewhere they’d never go and has no relevance on them or their local area, much less their entire state.
This post is about the 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbors which was an invention of Fox News, capitalizing on the fearful post-911 political environment.
There is not enough happening to sustain a 24 hour news cycle
There is, they just focus on stupid shit. They should be chasing down and harassing corrupt politicians and billionaires paparazzi style 24/7. They wouldn’t though because they’re not on our side.
What ive always found crazy about the 24 hour news cycle is how little information is in there.
For a while I watched msnbc all day, just to have something on in the background.
In a day they would cover maybe 6 stories, just over and over and over. Here’s some new talking head to give their take, it’s effectively identical to the take the last 5 talking heads gave.
I stopped watching it because I realized that in a given day I was maybe getting about 20 minutes of information on repeat.
The channels have time, they could give complex and nuanced discussions around the 6 interesting things that happened that day, they could expand their coverage to the other 100 or 1000 interesting things that happened. But everyday they find the 6 stories that will lead to the most eyeballs watching the most ads and hammer them.
All news radio was a thing for decades before cable came along.
Most people would turn it on to get the weather/sports/traffic updates/headlines, and then turn back to music.
They probably assume a good chunk of their audience is people not really paying attention, or who tuned in halfway. For someone watching all day it’s repetitive, but for someone who just showed up it’s fresh. If they did something deep that needs context, the people who arrive 35% of the way through are going to be lost.
Yea I just had it on for noise myself but at some point I thought “haven’t they already gone over this” and then it was like seeing something you couldn’t unsee.
It makes sense to have that “drop in” aspect but it really makes me wonder about people that do just sit and watch Fox News all day. I think after 3 or 4 days I decided music or silence was better.
How many times can you get angry about the same news story over and over?
but complexity and nuance don’t drive viewer numbers and ratings.
It’s by design. If you missed the first round of those six stories, you can just listen to them in 20 minutes. If you get distracted on story number three, you got 20 minutes to go before the next time story number three comes out. It’s designed for ads, like you said, not for information.
There’s more stuff they could report on, but it either doesn’t advance their ideological agenda or doesn’t interest their audience and doesn’t get them clicks.
If you watch local news you’ll think the biggest story every day was the weather since they tell you about it 15 times in a 30 minute broadcast.
I disagree.
CNN did provide 24 hour news, but there had been all news radio stations for year before it came along.
C-SPAN got hacked by Newt Gingrich. Newt would go into the chamber when no one was there and make speeches that all his colleagues ignored. But because he was on TV people at home paid attention to him.
or crimes from 800lbs a way
“What radicalized you?”
Those 800lbs criminals I saw on the 24h news shows. I never thought they’d be a threat but now I’m afraid of the immigrants and transgender folk because one of them could be them 800lbs criminal type coming to eat my dogs and cats!
lol, I meant to type miles… I dont know how i ended up using lbs.
but you’ve already replied to it, so I’m not gonna fuck up your post by editing mine.
Oh I 100% knew what you meant. I just couldn’t refuse that wide open window of opportunity.
You right. its hilarious. Even from my perspective.
And if you do notice this administration will just tell you to stop complaining because you have to put up with it in order for them to destroy the evil of liberalism.
As someone who currently works ‘in the news’, try watching your local station instead of the national channels. They’re definitely not perfect either, but instead of being a nonstop barrage of Doom you frequently get puff pieces about new shops, upcoming events, or whatever else in your area might resonate more with you as an individual living in XYZ city. Just this morning my station had a story about an upcoming stage production of the Lion King, a fundraiser/gala thingy to raise money for people living with HIV, and an animal shelter announcing 50% off all adoptions for the month of October. Pretty sure all of this can be classified as “sponsored content” (they pay the station to have their topic presented) but again, it’s a welcome break from the endless doom-casting of FOX or MSN
I think it’s more than just so you won’t notice. It’s more like so you take out the anger of things going up on whatever the news has fed you.
They call him “The News”
because he was always talking about who he slept with.
really hard not to notice rent going up 500%
Eh, I kinda think the problem started with cable news not social media.
I still blame MTV for starting the reality TV trend.
Ugh I hate that I agree with this because teenage me loved The Real World and Road Rules so much, but yeah there’s no way we could have known how that would accelerate the decline in the specific way that it has
Yes and that guy would tell you every day that Israel is in Gaza to defend themselves etc. And you would believe it as the west has for the past 80 years.
The modern media landscape has its own problems but it is so much richer than the prior narrative led order that the likes of BBC still shovel out today.
that’s what happens when billionaires buy the news and need it to turn a profit anyway
As with so many things, you can trace it back to Ronald Reagan.
Cronkite, Peter Jennings et al worked under a thing called ‘The Fairness Doctrine.’ Back when radio was first regulated, both Parties agreed that the public airwaves should remain neutral. No one person / company could own more than six radio stations [AM and FM] Any time there was an editorial, the station had to offer time for opposing views, and the stations had to broadcast news daily.
Reagan had seen how that system had taken down Nixon, and swore it would be destroyed.
It’s like being a better person doesn’t even occur to them as an option
That’s the great thing about knowing how great you are.
Lying is completely justified if it’s in a good cause, and keeping the GOP in power is a sacred cause.
When you worship death, that just comes as a matter of course. It’s like how kicking puppies doesn’t occur to you as an option
It’s never been that look at old news stations panic about the “crime crisis” or even late 19th century American newspapers about natives or even the “Chinese” stealing jobs.
