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[mexico1970]

All news channels are dead in the water now, the only news people want to hear comes from Twitter and Facebook where they can drown out any news they don't like with an echo chamber they surround themselves with.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

All news channels are dead in the water now, the only news people want to hear comes from Twitter and Facebook where they can drown out any news they don't like with an echo chamber they surround themselves with.

Absolutely and this is where they will get most of their coverage. A tiny minority of people will watch their channel.

Its only there to become a voice on social media.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

It's a bit weird the hype they're pushing for this. BBC Breakfast continued to beat ITV's Americanized GMB show despite being accused of dying for the best part of a decade and Piers Morgan doing everything he could do get any publicity and viral moments. Why? Because it's precisely because the BBC show is dry and boring that made it good background viewing.

But that's if we believe this is a purely commercial venture. The Daily Mail is the most read newspaper in the UK and yet it's read by a vanishingly small proportion of the population. But what they manage to do is get their agenda into the public consciousness because the people who do read it will then go on to have discussions on websites like this. Journalists are obsessed with their own importance and desperate for content, so we end up with big shows with big viewerships like BBC Breakfast covering what's "in the news" as if it's an actual news story itself. Increasingly, we see them covering what people are saying on Twitter as if that's news too.

The right wingers at the moment seem to have this obsession with "winning the culture war" and it wouldn't surprise me if this news channel is another example of that where the actual profitability isn't too much of a concern. And to do that, it doesn't need to be a big news channel, it just needs to create enough clips to go viral and get people discussing the issues it wants people to discuss in terms it wants them to discuss them. Kinda like LBC. Although like LBC they might have just realised that in the current climate, the most profitable thing to do is to create these viral moments, which means having people saying ridiculous or outrageous things. It's also the reason that chat shows are increasingly asking their guests to play stupid games, because "Scarlett Johansson tries to guess the world capitals" is more clickable than "an interesting conversation with Scarlett Johansson."

 

[Rascal]

As Democracy fails, we are becoming a punditocracy or a mediaocracy.

Pundits control the narrative through the media, that makes Governments reactive than proactive.

 

[somapop]

But that's if we believe this is a purely commercial venture. The Daily Mail is the most read newspaper in the UK and yet it's read by a vanishingly small proportion of the population. But what they manage to do is get their agenda into the public consciousness because the people who do read it will then go on to have discussions on websites like this. Journalists are obsessed with their own importance and desperate for content, so we end up with big shows with big viewerships like BBC Breakfast covering what's "in the news" as if it's an actual news story itself. Increasingly, we see them covering what people are saying on Twitter as if that's news too.

The right wingers at the moment seem to have this obsession with "winning the culture war" and it wouldn't surprise me if this news channel is another example of that where the actual profitability isn't too much of a concern. And to do that, it doesn't need to be a big news channel, it just needs to create enough clips to go viral and get people discussing the issues it wants people to discuss in terms it wants them to discuss them. Kinda like LBC. Although like LBC they might have just realised that in the current climate, the most profitable thing to do is to create these viral moments, which means having people saying ridiculous or outrageous things. It's also the reason that chat shows are increasingly asking their guests to play stupid games, because "Scarlett Johansson tries to guess the world capitals" is more clickable than "an interesting conversation with Scarlett Johansson."

Yep.
See Joe Rogan's latest 'proclamation' as I believe his audience figures are down 40% since jumping to Texas and Spotify.

BTW - where does Eddie Mair now reside?

 

[mat]

Yep.
See Joe Rogan's latest 'proclamation' as I believe his audience figures are down 40% since jumping to Texas and Spotify.

BTW - where does Eddie Mair now reside?

LBC.


He would never say it in public that the BBC got rid after he gave Boris a shoeing when he did what Andrew Marr never does on his show. Ask a Tory difficult questions.

 

[somapop]

LBC.


He would never say it in public that the BBC got rid after he gave Boris a shoeing when he did what Andrew Marr never does on his show. Ask a Tory difficult questions.

Thought that was the case.
He was a quiet bulldog of an interviewer and sounded great on Radio 4 but I know little else about him
Remember that interview (the playback of the tape). Heads and shoulders above Marr.

 

[BlueHammer85]

All news channels are dead in the water now, the only news people want to hear comes from Twitter and Facebook where they can drown out any news they don't like with an echo chamber they surround themselves with.

Spot on.

 

[mat]

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Who the hell has the time and desire to religiously sit through hours upon hours of a tabloid news channel?

Gammon retirees?