My work scheduled a conference that week, so I'll be out of town on and after election night! AND, I have to attend all day and nighttime events. How in the world will I be able to keep it together? Especially since I don't talk politics at work EVER. I have one work bestie who I know shares the same values/views, so we'll be white knuckling it together.
After 2016, I’m too nervous to watch any of it, and we won’t have a clear winner by bedtime in the East. I’m gonna watch Pride and Prejudice and go to bed early.
The problem with trying to watch streaming services is there is no easy way to “jump” channel to channel. To go from HBO to Prime to local channels is just annoying.
News about “what you want to hear” is called opinion &analysis. News is &shd simply be reporting out of the facts &events. If we cd get back to that we’d be making progress away frm plutocrat owned &controlled propaganda.
On June 1st, 1980 Ted Turner began the paradigm shift that has, by now, almost completely changed mainstream "news" media from being largely about informing the public to being largely about entertaining the public with "news-ish" garbage. Turner disregarded the media's traditional, and very important, role as "The Fourth Estate" in favor of maximizing profitability. To this end, the majors have pretty much all focused on capturing eyeballs to sell soap. Every story has to be a conflict. They've turned reporting about reality into a form of reality TV. While there is widespread complaint about the digital platforms' algorithmic manipulation of their audience, there has been little squawking about the algorithm mainstream "news" organizations use in their management meetings to decide what to show and how to frame it for maximum profit harvest. This phenomenon has now begun to infect even old stalwarts like WAPO and the NYT. The only cure for this is that we, as consumers of news, stop giving our eyeballs to bullshit "coverage" and shift to real journalistic outlets. The Bulwark is one excellent example of what I'm talking about.
A new Neal Stephenson book? thank you!!!! I had not heard about it.
My work scheduled a conference that week, so I'll be out of town on and after election night! AND, I have to attend all day and nighttime events. How in the world will I be able to keep it together? Especially since I don't talk politics at work EVER. I have one work bestie who I know shares the same values/views, so we'll be white knuckling it together.
After 2016, I’m too nervous to watch any of it, and we won’t have a clear winner by bedtime in the East. I’m gonna watch Pride and Prejudice and go to bed early.
The problem with trying to watch streaming services is there is no easy way to “jump” channel to channel. To go from HBO to Prime to local channels is just annoying.
Eh, I'll probably go between The Bulwark YouTube with bouts of Steve Kornacki.
I was a Youtube adopter way back... I originally heard about Obama on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
News about “what you want to hear” is called opinion &analysis. News is &shd simply be reporting out of the facts &events. If we cd get back to that we’d be making progress away frm plutocrat owned &controlled propaganda.
On June 1st, 1980 Ted Turner began the paradigm shift that has, by now, almost completely changed mainstream "news" media from being largely about informing the public to being largely about entertaining the public with "news-ish" garbage. Turner disregarded the media's traditional, and very important, role as "The Fourth Estate" in favor of maximizing profitability. To this end, the majors have pretty much all focused on capturing eyeballs to sell soap. Every story has to be a conflict. They've turned reporting about reality into a form of reality TV. While there is widespread complaint about the digital platforms' algorithmic manipulation of their audience, there has been little squawking about the algorithm mainstream "news" organizations use in their management meetings to decide what to show and how to frame it for maximum profit harvest. This phenomenon has now begun to infect even old stalwarts like WAPO and the NYT. The only cure for this is that we, as consumers of news, stop giving our eyeballs to bullshit "coverage" and shift to real journalistic outlets. The Bulwark is one excellent example of what I'm talking about.
I’ll stick with pbs, thanks!