Red Mosquito

digster wrote:

McParadigm wrote: Now, there are a lot of overlapping types of coverage and forms of delivery that we treat as a singular entity called "the media," but they don't really share a lot of common ground. TV media has and responds to a very different kind of competition than print media. In many ways, it blurs the boundaries of what exactly constitutes journalism (vs, say, entertainment). It is also the most beholden to pundit-centric coverage, as it relies on dramatic debate as a delivery system for information and points of view. It requires a constant influx of fuel for this drama, and so it tends to overblow and over-repeat. Personally, I draw a huge line between TV news media and publications...particularly those that engage in investigative journalism.

I agree with many things in this post, but having a background in journalism, the bolded is particularly irritating, because it's just simply not like that. When someone refers to "The Media," I never am really sure what they're defining that as, and I'm not sure they've sharply defined it either. Presumably, the anchor living in a multimillion Manhattan penthouse, but what about the editor of the community paper in the suburbs? What about the reporters for state and local papers throughout the country, which despite the downturn of the business model are still a primary source of news for many people? What about podcasters, blog writers? Are these individuals all part of the Big Bad Media conspiracy?

The notion that such a diverse and diffuse type of profession is capable of even getting on the same page, much less conspiratorially collude, is a bit lazy. I think its more often a means to counter information that troubles the narrative someone has established. If the messenger is corrupt then one never has to consider the message, because it's by extension corrupt.

BurtReynolds wrote:Does it even matter any more?



and that's 3 years old, an eternity on the cyberwaves of the interwebs.

Trump wrote:"Nobody knew health care could be so complicated"

Bi_3 wrote:That how we got into this mess in the first place

Strat wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:That how we got into this mess in the first place

Black people? Nice BI

Simple Torture wrote:Who the fuck sits on a couch like that at work?

Bi_3 wrote:

Strat wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:That how we got into this mess in the first place

Black people? Nice BI

I was making a porn joke, as I assume GH was

Green Habit wrote:Caption opportunities!

Strat wrote:chud gets it

96583UP wrote:Trump is definitely banging KAC

Bi_3 wrote:

Strat wrote:chud gets it

Yeah, but that was just obscenity. The trick is to subtly slander trump voters in the process of making that joke by implying their porn driven feelings of sexual inadequacy lead them into electing this clown.