Saturday, November 21, 2020

Nighty-night

Time for the news media to take a four-year nap.  T. Becket Adams: "An obituary for the press in the post-Trump era."
Goodbye, all. It has been a crazy four years.

See you all back here the next time a Republican is president.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Today, the ruined, exposed media is dead and buried.

Tomorrow, it will be abusing its terrifying unchecked power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExqvK56GiS0&ab_channel=TheMoodyBlues-Topic

Anonymous said...

Now THIS is a press correction from Townhall.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnZH3TcW8AAL9_1?format=jpg&name=large

"We guessed we were right, and it felt warm and good when we did it, but then like fools we checked, and oh man oh man oh man, so now we're kind of halfway admitting that blowing the central premise of the story renders us "not 100 percent accurate," but it's not really our fault because math is hard and patience is harder, though we're not dead yet because Trump's world-class election lawyers are ON THE CASE, so if lightning should somehow strike a second bolt of lightning and hit a four-leaf clover in a unicorn's ass it's still theoretically possible we'll go back to being accidentally correct, but for now we've cautiously "tweaked" our headline on a false and needy story, and we really really hope you'll join us in waiting (the opposite of what we did before) to see "how things play out" in the recounts (zombie Hugo Chavez could stagger into court with a stack of Xeroxed Dearborn ballots in his mouth any day-- keep hope alive!)"


But at least it's always interesting to see a serious editorial correction about a tremendously wrong article written in the conversational style of an Etsy blog.

Anonymous said...

The New York Times is making its newspaper available for free to all high school students and teachers in the United States.

The Times' circulation has tripled since 2016, as has the Washington Post's.

Eric said...

How's the NYT revenue?

Anonymous said...

1.78 billion dollars for the twelve months ending on September 30, 2020, as compared with 1.81 billion in 2018 and 1.75 billion in 2017. The opposite of most print media.

Looking to 2021 and beyond, if the New York Times becomes ubiquitous in high schools, its advertising base will expand and its ad sales will increase.

Anonymous said...

This headline shows why the Washington Post's circulation is also way up.

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