Posted on 09/19/2012 7:11:36 AM PDT by all the best
There are three important things to keep in mind when looking at this gorgeous graph:
1. The graph is adjusted for inflation.
2. The red line accounts for online ad revenue.
3. The end began with the rise of the online blog.
Sometimes it doesn’t feel like we're winning, because the corrupt media still has the power to create its own reality – to create the illusion that they're everywhere and still quite capable of manipulating opinion, facts, and the truth.
But this graph proves that we're the ones who are winning and on two fronts. First off, the business model of being shameless left-wing shills when alternative and honest opinion is available online just isn't working. Secondly, as we've seen this election year, the corrupt media is more desperate to hold on to its narrative and political power than to fix its business problems. This means that in competition with the New Media, Old Media is forced to quadruple down on the appalling behavior that's driving customers away.
These cretins deserve to be put out of business and relegated to the ash heap of shame. This means we can't allow ourselves to be psyched out by what looks like impossible odds against implacable dominance. We have to keep fighting and pushing until the Washington Post, New York Times, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, and the rest cease to exist.
You know, for America.
These entities can't sustain themselves forever, and the harder we fight to force the truth out there, the more the media is forced to further disgrace and expose themselves to protect their lies. This is a win-win for us.
Something else to make you feel better: The media is putting everything they have into destroying Mitt Romney, and he could still win this thing.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Thanks KCVL.
I hate it when people - people like you Eric - can say in two words what it would take me 6 paragraphs to say...
I'll get over it. :)
Learned the lingo at a small oil company based in Wichita...
That arguably WAS the case a few years ago - a good friend of mine was in a graduate journalism program at a top university in the late 1980’s, and worked for a time as a producer for a broadcast news station, and his stories attest to the truth of the state of the profession at that time.
However, now things have changed.
It is no longer the case of an industry grown effete and disconnected, it is now a case of an industry that can’t stay alive and knows it, and is just putting off the last day.
They are now political not because they want to be (which they always wanted to be of course, but it was not a requirement for survival), but because they are being paid to be, and still exist, for the moment, only for that purpose.
A well-earned and well-deserved decline.
I think you are right on the money with that
Folks gots to save money to buy guns and ammo in Obama's America, it seems.
Don't feel so bad. He got famous for it.
Yes, you're right - but they're still making one bad decision after another. Rather than being a 'general circulation' newspaper in response to declining subscriptions, they downsize their writers. General circulation means that people like me - conservatives are included.
Back to my toaster factory example... The toaster factory has fewer and fewer orders for their exquisitely designed prize winning toasters. The toaster are catching fire and people are not buying them... So the toaster factory - not wanting to give up the glitz part of their business, decides to 'let go' half their work force. The half that's actually producing... and to double down on more prize winning designs....
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