Comments on: The Mass Media Is Over

By: Anti-Democracy Activist

Anti-Democracy Activist — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 04:24:01 +0000

I'm sure I showed this to you at some point, but there's an article at Gigaom from a while back that touched on this. Basically, it says that the era of monopolistic mass media was a blip, which is now over. That doesn't mean that mass media is going to disappear or even stop being influential anytime soon, though. Fred Reed talks about this in his latest. Basically, what he postulates (and I agree) is that media will bifurcate into two tiers. Mass media will be for the proles and low middlebrows, whereas genuine intellectuals will seek each other out on the web and communicate through smaller venues that neither need nor even really want to have mass appeal. To quote Fred: "The future? Good question. A reasonable guess: We will see growing global intellectual electro-Balkanization. Declining circulation of newspapers as fewer see any reason to read them. The separation of people and state. Television becoming even more of a cultural slum, if that is possible. Decreasing ability of the guberno-media complex (I actually said that, didn’t I?) to control opinion. Because of lateral communication, growing ability of voiceless groups to realize that they are numerous and have interests in common. It’s a new ball game." Indeed it is.

By: Frog Do

Frog Do — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:24:26 +0000

Leftism = chaos. The mass media was acting as a stabilizing element for Establishment politics, and in that sense can be seen as relatively right.

By: Contemplationist

Contemplationist — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:05:39 +0000

‘Access journalism,’ while sometimes exposed with respect to politicians and lobbyists, is very rarely exposed when a State Department desk officer’s memo’s narrative is planted on the front page with no dissenting opinions.
Though Buzzfeed and Upworthy provide communion for the SWPL class, they aren’t chummy with those directly ruling (i.e. bureaucrats), whereas the mass media personages are.

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:49:33 +0000

The narrative, of mass media losing control of the narrative, makes perfect sense… and yet… Cthulu swims lefter than ever. How can this be?

By: old coyote

old coyote — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:17:40 +0000

my breakfast ritual is internet neo rx writers, along with doomers, 4GW writers, etc. not sure if it is cheaper than fishwrap subscriptions, but is a lot more interesting, in a “darkly” enlightening sort of way… and my daily conversations get a lot more “interesting” with those who still watch tv.

By: Chris B

Chris B — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:46:46 +0000

“Despite this, people still have the same religious impulses as they always have, and are seeking to have them filled in a different way than they once did.”

Implication could be that NRx is a religious group. SJWs are a religious group. Furries are a religious group. Bronies are a religious group etc