I wouldn't be able to tell you anyone who does the same level of citation work in a youtube video.

is it really surprising that someone who continually throws in where to find the current reference when talking about things also links to the sources?

@Atkins Regarding sites turning to garbage do you think that correlates with GoogleAds at all?

Yeah, shes a breast of fresh ass innt she.

Well the financial side of things is definitely contributing to the collapse. Media companies tend to have ridiculous overhead and online advertising is so fucking awful these days that it's hard to believe, and thus the only way they can make ends meet is to become as clickbaity as possible and chase anger clicks.

What the average advertiser is willing to pay for an ad impression these days is only a tiny fraction of what they would pay 5 years ago.

And if you're a media company that wants a flashy modern office in downtown San Fran, paying salaries commensurate with that locale then you need a fuckload of clicks and you aren't going to care too much how you get them.

If I ever own a media company that shit is going to have an office in the middle of god damned nowhere flyover country, and as many staff as possible are going to work from home.

You can only drive overhead and salaries down so far though before people stop wanting to work for you. Subscription models don't work and ads pay for shit. So I don't know how to solve the financial side of things.

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/02/28/Public%20Radio%20Station%20Revenues%20FY%202015_custom-a7d8480c5206651de13a27f0263cbd217532fef2-s1600-c85.png

That's where NPR's money comes from.

While NPR obviously has more of a following on the left, I don't see many people accusing them of being fake news or clickbait.

I've been saying for a while that people need to be willing to pay for the news

It both improves quality and adds a layer of accountability to the publication

The people pushing for neutral bathrooms are typically the people who think all men are rapists.. I'd say they are throwing the safety of women under the bus in order to falsify evidence for their agenda.
If not enough whamans are getting raped to make you feel important then you must get more whamans raped

I don't know about that. But it does seem like there is some major cognitive dissonance going on. Same thing with feminism and Islam. Always makes me wonder about how these people see the world. Whether they actually believe that reality is socially constructed and are legitimately acting as if it is, or if they don't believe their ideology but would rather see strangers raped than publicly admit they are wrong.

I don't imagine someone like Big Red could ever, ***ever*** be made to publicly admit fault in their beliefs.

BIG RED NEVER WRONG!

I think fear of being left without friends and admitting they are wrong/admitting the the nazis have a point is big part for alot of ppl. They see first hand what they do and how they talk about ppl they disagree with.

They understand what they want but they haven't quite thought out the mental pathing to get to what they want. Which is why you get a lot of that backwards mental gymnastics bullshit when they try to explain their reasoning for things.

It's why they can have hour long arguments about how the word "nigger" is racist and should never, ever, ever be used because of all the horrible things that word's done to black people. But at the exact same time continue to argue that words literally have zero power.

I had to sit through this and a lot of other things living in a household full of "moderate progressive liberals" who happened to be black.

@Vigil Please don't go to Texas. We're full. All the people coming in raised the price of living. Californians are moving in *en masse* and are trying to turn the state into California with all it's problems. There's several city governments that do all the banal nonsense the Californians do already.

Also, full of guns. Your girlfriend wouldn't like it.

Dw, Seattle is top choice

DW?

Dont Worry

My understanding is that those commies from California are moving to Texas, specifically Houston

Careful. Don't want to trade california for texas' electoral votes. won't end well for you.

Nah

Hispanics vote blue but they are just red as the blood they bleed. Hispanics pushed far enough are worse than anglos on conservative topics

Trust me

Yeah, that's my understanding as well. Hispanics are actually conservative because of their culture surrounding strong family structures and religiousness

Yep

hispanics vote blue because of union and labor lies.

Basically, we techinay vote blue mostly cause Hispanic dude runs blue >->

Or family related

That's pretty much it

There's no actual thought into it

I know

I live in a Hispanic majority city in texas