Message from @wacka
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i like the investigative journalism done by greenwald and the intercept. i really do. but i really dislike their politics.
>the diversity of hiring a white dude who says he's black
I dont often watch styx, but he just made a good point...
"the MSM dont care about free pres, they care about profit margins, if they cared about free press theyd care more about online media"
I guess you could say they care about free press - when its affecting their profit margins
I just watched the same vid @wacka lol
Free press vs Profit press?
It feels like the subscription model needs to come back and survive if we want news orgs to play nicely ever
Clicks for cash incentivizes the wrong behavior
you cant force people/incentivise people .. to pay for something that others are providing for free
at least not in a free market society
unless you have something uniquely valuable
That's the thing, almost nobody is providing good journalism
"Value Added" concept comes back into play, dang it.
My prime sources now are Tim and Reuters because they're the most on the ball and admit fault. Everything else comes with 40 or so caveats
I would gladly pay per month for a full paper that didn't focus on pushing an agenda or baiting eyes to ads
IE one that isn't a glorified blog or tabloid
wew
one thing I thought about is building a community driven app... that lets you make wiki-style edits to live news sites, and you can select whether its "slant/spin/false(citations needed)" etc... so anyone else with the app can see a news site in normal mode and switch to "non-partisan" mode
newsvoice does that
they sponsored my channel
@YuXiang i just retweeted that thanks for sharing
in fairness against musk... even when he did tweet about the share buying and going private I thought that was a bit shady
many people have gone to jail for less
no problemo
what interesting though... is that if it was a few years ago.. maybe just before the election... if trump stock was at say 200 and he said "we might go private and buy all the stock at 300" (which would immediately boost all his stock) ... he would be finished
yeah that was shady. manipulating stock market?
is it on the level of insider trading?
we do seem to be living in an era where people are treated very differently
yeah, he also said all this about buying stock at 420 to all his employees first...
it would be a hell of a lot less shady if he just omitted the price
In a fair world, the "Lords" are held to the same standard as the peasants, in "Just" World the "Lords" are held to a higher standard than the "Peasants"
theres a big difference between
"we are thinking about taking the company private"
and
"we are thinking about taking the company private and, we are going to buy at much more than its currently worth, so if you all buy my stock right now you'll be super rich"
did you guys see the shit on the NSA obtaining encrypted info from Al Jazeera?
what kinda info?
like sources?
they cracked the vpn
hope they manage to keep sources and whistleblowers safe
(Joke) They have already been sent to Gitmo