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(DIR) Post #AZpe2hHXAOiOuJEk6K by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-09-16T14:43:23Z
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🤔The News is a strange industry.If every auto company owner stopped buying newspapers, the newspapers wouldn't even notice. That's only like, 1000 people. But if every auto company employee stopped buying newspapers, the industry would feel significant pain. That's over 2 million people.And yet, UAW stories are framed from the perspective of owners, not employees? Tik-Tok and other social media coverage frames it from the perspective of employees.And we wonder why paper sales are down.
(DIR) Post #AZpe2j2icS3KMwJwHo by Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al
2023-09-16T14:49:21Z
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@mekkaokereke Newspapers sell ads, and guess who buys those ads in the paper. Hint: It's not the workers.
(DIR) Post #AZpe2kkMHgYReZkIwi by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-09-16T14:58:09Z
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@Legit_Spaghetti Yeah, the reason that strategy is silly is that advertising dollars follow eyeballs. And the eyeballs have gone to the social media platforms like Tik-Tok, where the significantly more pro-labor content is being shown.And cops don't even advertise, and yet the anti-Black news story framing of criminal justice persists🤷🏿♂️US News is a product custom made and optimized for boardroom shaped rich folk, but that only works financially if everyone buys it? Doesn't make sense to me.
(DIR) Post #AZpe2lIOF9mDM7fTzU by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-09-16T14:48:20Z
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Similar paradigm with Black people and US policing. Newspapers' business model depends on the vast majority of people paying them money to hear stories about themselves framed from a perspective that is unflattering, disingenuous, and in some cases, straight up lies.And then we genuinely wonder why younger generations prefer to get their "news" from social media. And we wonder why newspaper subscriptions are down.
(DIR) Post #AZpe2lXdKTyC7Oneka by killick@dmv.community
2023-09-16T15:03:06Z
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@mekkaokereke @Legit_Spaghetti "And cops don't even advertise, and yet the anti-Black news story framing of criminal justice persists🤷🏿♂️" I think it's because police chiefs etc. have the ability to grant reporters access. It's not money, it's access that reporters want so they bend backwards not to offend their sources.
(DIR) Post #AZpe2pA1sBSvLLmrVw by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-09-16T15:15:41Z
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@killick @Legit_Spaghetti 🤔Yeah, I must have failed social studies, because I think I remember that journalism is supposed to hold government accountable?If newspapers can't even do that, because the part of the government that is allowed to shoot us, also gets to decide what information journalists have access to based on how favorable and intentionally misleading their coverage is... Then what good is journalism at all?
(DIR) Post #AZpe2pvX1ZSlig0nYW by Aviva_Gary@noc.social
2023-09-16T17:45:12Z
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@mekkaokereke @killick @Legit_Spaghetti It's not (at least in its current form). It's almost as if access journalism (and the industry itself as currently run) are really covers for something else entirely...🤔
(DIR) Post #AaEqa5j5BDo1v5ziS0 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-28T21:33:21Z
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@mekkaokereke> If every auto company owner stopped buying newspapers, the newspapers wouldn't even notice... And yet, UAW stories are framed from the perspective of owners, not employees?If every auto company owner stopped buying newspaper *ads* the newspapers would definitely notice. Car companies are one of the biggest customers for ad-funded media. That's why we get such minimal reporting on environmental issues (esp. climate change), and why ad-funded media side with car company bosses.