Another Darwin Award Winner!
Funny, what that woman did to get fired..saying Trump would be tweeting and golfing..it was a stupid comment but I’m pretty sure the trip was kept secret and a lot worse has been said about him.
But to hell with her. :)
Unfortunately a Trump hating publication will pay her double to hire her based on this.
“For another thing, Donald Trump is the one consuming subject, sucking all views and opinions into his void .....”
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I used to ride horses a lot. One of the lessons I learned was when to get off when a horse is “misbehaving” badly. Normally, you ride it out because if the horse “wins” by bucking, etc. you lose control & respect. You bail OFF when the horse is so crazed with whatever is going on, that it will inflict harm on itself (examples from experience: throwing itself down a ditch, slamming against trees, etc.) and thus, on you ... being dead/maimed is not worth sticking it out on a horse like that. This is where the Trump haters are .... so crazed, eaten up & blinded by hate, that they will destroy themselves to try & rid themselves of Trump. The non-crazed people in this country, voters, newspaper/magazine readers, cable TV watchers .... we’re all bailing off.
Because more people have abandoned the print medium in favor of quick answers through the internet. Many good magazines are dying, and this is a shame.
As for the fake news mags: newsweek, us snooze and world report and time, I wish them a speedy extinction. I see them in doctors’ offices but would never buy one.
Sounds like a crack addict.
It is the media that has made Trump the only subject talked about 24/7
Absolutely, the entire industry, well at least a good majority, are pandering to those who think like them. Problem is the real numbers prove that they are not pandering to the majority, but indeed the minority. Excellent piece DB.
Dying? They’ve been dead inside for years, it’s just taking a bit extra for the corpse to stop moving.
Hot Rod and Super Chevy will be the last man standing !
For at least 50 years, there has been very little "sense of journalistic ethics" in the fast majority of the Media.
What we are seeing is their desperation. For 50 years, the (Progressive) media essentially ran the nation as a Mediacracy.
As technology changed and awareness of their meddling took hold, we have reached a critical point where they do not have the power to keep control of politicians.
Donald Trump won because he did not fear the Media, and fought back. Many other politicians are learning that lesson.
A Republic, not ruled by a Mediacracy, will be much different than what we have seen for the last 50 years.
Every Magazine including National Geographic, and Smithsonian have turned hard left. My wife cut subscriptions to her Women’s magazines including Good Housekeeping when they turned against President Trump. Who needs to pay for that left wing crap?
All very nice except for the fact that the sequence is out of order.
There were pretty damned few fact checkers left by 1986 and that was long before the Internet was grabbing revenue.
Last 4 years? More like the last 60 years. “Dewey Defeats Truman”, anyone?
This is true and it means all paid/salaried/contract writers are being pushed out into the ‘pitch for your lives’ world of content marketing. A few will be able to land long form assignments and all will be pitching their editor buddies for a book and most will end up in Amazon indie-world, hoping they have enough friends &/or name recognition to make some money.
I do believe they may experience real want, deprivation and fear. It will not awaken most, who will spew hatred at the very society they have helped create.
Welcome to the party....
If every mag or paper this clown has worked for has gone broke, maybe prospective employers should take that into account.
HE’S POISON!!!
Another Darwin Award Winner!
“Every magazine I have ever worked for, and I have worked for them all, is dead or will die shortly...”
Oh, the tragedy. Almost as tragic as all the town criers who lost their jobs when the moveable-type printing press was invented.
I can sum up their conundrum in one short sentence:
We are in a post Dan Rather era.
It has very little to do with politics. (Yes, I know that a number of FReepers refuse to subscribe to certain publications because of their editorial content.) It has everything to do with eyeballs.
Before the Internet, magazines would pay writers to create content -- and the magazines would reward writers that attract readers with more articles. Usually, the editors would choose a demographic to target, and select articles which would attract members of that target demographic. A number of magazines had focused on very narrow targets, but flourished by getting a major share of the target market.
Publishers can then take those eyeballs and offer ad space to companies wanting to promote their products or ideas. (Think political ads for the latter.) With a narrow focus, publishers can provide a targeted audience to advertisers.
We had magazines because the start-up cost was significant, as was the running cost. It takes money to buy, or hire, a printing press. This puts an upper limit on the number of players in a particular target demographic.
The Internet has lowered the entry and running cost. Some electronic publications run on a shoestring. (Like FR.)
The same can be said for newspapers.
Both magazines and newspapers are being folded into publishing companies, and for the same reason: reduce the running costs. The Associated Press started this shrinkage with their telegraph wire service -- newspapers didn't have to hire staff to write national and regional stories.
And so it goes.
Magazine stories are too much fluff. Look at the magazine rack and they mostly look alike too as there are only a handful of owners.
Also the font size is way to small. I need size 12 or greater. Having to use a magnifying glass and I will not buy the magazine.