Everything is upside down - the media want to educate, educators want to inform.
Thank you Brian for the video - we watched it and have subscribed to her channel. This is what reporting of the 'news' ought to be. She names the position of an individual and then gives their name. That's a stamp of authenticity.
Thanks to you for bravery. Our nation has become a scary place to live in the last decade. Your willingness to report the actual news with your verified background information without vitriol is truly welcome.
I remember how horrified an American friend - who worked in media - was over the suppression of that laptop story. It was so blatant. But he had to see the corruption of big legacy media with his own eyes. No different here.
My point then and now was: They are not declining because they are corrupt. They are corrupt because they are declining.
The internet killed them. Anyone worth listening to can be an indie. In Canada, those who aren't worth listening to will depend increasingly on government for funds and and on its growing appetite for censorship for captive readers. In the States, legacies will be the toys of billionaires.
Incidentally, not many people know this but one factor in Harris-Walz's defeat was that the White House had tried dictating to Silicon Valley. And the Valley didn't like it. Key billionaires either switched sides or didn't help out like they used to.
One element was public for sure: Musk bought Twitter, a reliable regime product, and turned it into X. X is so much NOT a regime product that any number of legacy media scribes have flounced off to the BlueSky echo chamber, unnoticed and unmissed.
I'm glad Brian started a Substack. He's always worth a read. But if I subscribed to a legacy medium, I'd be paying for so much I don't need to know just to get his take on things. That approach to news dissemination worked for print and TV but is irrelevant to the internet.
I haven’t trusted mainstream media since before COVID but it became really clear during COVID that there was a narrative being pushed and if you dared to say anything different you were attacked and vilified. Danielle Smith was terminated as a radio host etc. That was the end for me.
I have used what I call the Secret Decoder Ring for some years now. Whatever "they" really want you to do, trust me you do not want to do. And vice versa. The more aggressively and shrilly they excoriate something or somebody, flock to that thing or person as fast as you can ha ha.
Thank you, Brian. So many of us are tired of the paternalistic, judgmental tone from not only media but every major institution. I think this is even more apparent under socialism, since the whole point is re-education.
Right now the media is framing a federal snap election on a friendship bridge and TDS! As a senior I get stickers shock every time I go to the store. I can't eat a bridge and TDS is the least of my worries.
Other than the Sunday morning talk shows and the PBS Newshour(that does a much better job than the CBC at presenting both sides of a story as hard as that is to believe), the only American media I follow(and pay for) is Matt Tiabbi and Racquet News. Too bad Matt and Walter Kirn had a falling out though. Their twice weekly podcasts were great.
Everything is upside down - the media want to educate, educators want to inform.
Thank you Brian for the video - we watched it and have subscribed to her channel. This is what reporting of the 'news' ought to be. She names the position of an individual and then gives their name. That's a stamp of authenticity.
Thanks to you for bravery. Our nation has become a scary place to live in the last decade. Your willingness to report the actual news with your verified background information without vitriol is truly welcome.
I remember how horrified an American friend - who worked in media - was over the suppression of that laptop story. It was so blatant. But he had to see the corruption of big legacy media with his own eyes. No different here.
My point then and now was: They are not declining because they are corrupt. They are corrupt because they are declining.
The internet killed them. Anyone worth listening to can be an indie. In Canada, those who aren't worth listening to will depend increasingly on government for funds and and on its growing appetite for censorship for captive readers. In the States, legacies will be the toys of billionaires.
Incidentally, not many people know this but one factor in Harris-Walz's defeat was that the White House had tried dictating to Silicon Valley. And the Valley didn't like it. Key billionaires either switched sides or didn't help out like they used to.
One element was public for sure: Musk bought Twitter, a reliable regime product, and turned it into X. X is so much NOT a regime product that any number of legacy media scribes have flounced off to the BlueSky echo chamber, unnoticed and unmissed.
I'm glad Brian started a Substack. He's always worth a read. But if I subscribed to a legacy medium, I'd be paying for so much I don't need to know just to get his take on things. That approach to news dissemination worked for print and TV but is irrelevant to the internet.
CBC often uses titles like "What you need to know about [something]". They don't even notice how condescending they sound.
Oh I think they do. They just don't care. Smug superiority is their middle name :)
I haven’t trusted mainstream media since before COVID but it became really clear during COVID that there was a narrative being pushed and if you dared to say anything different you were attacked and vilified. Danielle Smith was terminated as a radio host etc. That was the end for me.
I have used what I call the Secret Decoder Ring for some years now. Whatever "they" really want you to do, trust me you do not want to do. And vice versa. The more aggressively and shrilly they excoriate something or somebody, flock to that thing or person as fast as you can ha ha.
I like the thought that msm wants to teach us rather than report, and in my case, it raises my hackles. Talking heads should not be teachers.
Thanks Brian for giving us the straight goods!
Great to see a Canadian journalist interested in getting the facts;notspin! Thankyou Ms Herridge
Thank you, Brian. So many of us are tired of the paternalistic, judgmental tone from not only media but every major institution. I think this is even more apparent under socialism, since the whole point is re-education.
Right now the media is framing a federal snap election on a friendship bridge and TDS! As a senior I get stickers shock every time I go to the store. I can't eat a bridge and TDS is the least of my worries.
The mainstream media is actually very useful. Whatever narrative they push, I automatically assume the opposite to be true.
Other than the Sunday morning talk shows and the PBS Newshour(that does a much better job than the CBC at presenting both sides of a story as hard as that is to believe), the only American media I follow(and pay for) is Matt Tiabbi and Racquet News. Too bad Matt and Walter Kirn had a falling out though. Their twice weekly podcasts were great.