Our compromised media is eroding its own influence and legitimacy by trying to pick winners and manipulate the public. Just as trying to resist the natural (it would seem) human appetite for stories of male heroism and leadership has cost and will continue to cost Hollywood literally billions of dollars, trying to maintain an image of Kamala Harris as a formidable candidate (or Trump a Nazi) are costing these companies viewers and profits, mounting by the day.
Viewers of FOX and CNN and MSNBC tend to be older, richer, and white. That cohort is fixed, and not expanding, and more of them die every day. When these companies try to pivot to 'new media' and younger viewers (as CNN tried to do with its abortive streaming service) they will find a wall of disbelieving ridicule. If they'd just tried to be little more reasonable and a bit more reflective of the views and values of the mainstream, they would have prolonged their institutional influence... but the same can be said of LucasFilm and Harvard University and FEMA. Utopian ideas and elite disconnection lies near the source of all of these organizations'' troubles, such as they are.
Lol. I’m going through your posts systematically but they’re so information-dense that they take some time to fully absorb. It’s like reading the most brilliant students’ notes in a survey class.
If we had a fair media, this election would probably bring a social reckoning and an end to DEI nonsense. But alas...
Our compromised media is eroding its own influence and legitimacy by trying to pick winners and manipulate the public. Just as trying to resist the natural (it would seem) human appetite for stories of male heroism and leadership has cost and will continue to cost Hollywood literally billions of dollars, trying to maintain an image of Kamala Harris as a formidable candidate (or Trump a Nazi) are costing these companies viewers and profits, mounting by the day.
Viewers of FOX and CNN and MSNBC tend to be older, richer, and white. That cohort is fixed, and not expanding, and more of them die every day. When these companies try to pivot to 'new media' and younger viewers (as CNN tried to do with its abortive streaming service) they will find a wall of disbelieving ridicule. If they'd just tried to be little more reasonable and a bit more reflective of the views and values of the mainstream, they would have prolonged their institutional influence... but the same can be said of LucasFilm and Harvard University and FEMA. Utopian ideas and elite disconnection lies near the source of all of these organizations'' troubles, such as they are.
Thanks for calling out my work, especially by such a famous philosopher as James Mill : )
For those who are interested in the subject, I have written several other articles on ideology:
https://frompovertytoprogress.substack.com/t/ideology
These two articles are probably the best place to start:
https://frompovertytoprogress.substack.com/p/where-does-ideology-come-from
Lol. I’m going through your posts systematically but they’re so information-dense that they take some time to fully absorb. It’s like reading the most brilliant students’ notes in a survey class.
Impressive stuff