Who is buying our news coverage ?
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Who is buying our news coverage ?
We've all know for many years that all of our national newspapers are running at a massive loss (even The Guardian and The Independent).
They have huge mounting debt from which none of them will ever recover. Print is a dead industry but like a wounded animal they are still very dangerous. Owned by specious and nefarious organizations of corporate psychopaths and yet their presence somehow is reassuring to many people as a representation of continuity and familiarity. How would your old Dad feel if his daily copy of The Times, The Telegraph, The Express, The Mail, The Guardian or even The FT were to disappear in the same fashion as The News of the World.
So when GB News launched a couple of years ago, I didn't think much about it. Andrew Neil said GBNews had enough money to broadcast for 6 months after which the station would have to pay for itself through advertising revenue. £60 million. 3 months after they launched Andrew Neil left the channel claiming it was a farce. Talk TV was launched earlier this year and it's the same brand of scum
I have been watching a bit of GBNews and TalkTV, by way of keeping an open mind, and their advertising revenue is bollocks. So, I decided to do a bit of research to see if the internet could tell me who was actually funding these opinion channels that are masquerading as news outlets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB_News#: ... leaning%22.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TalkTV_(B ... The%20Talk.
They have huge mounting debt from which none of them will ever recover. Print is a dead industry but like a wounded animal they are still very dangerous. Owned by specious and nefarious organizations of corporate psychopaths and yet their presence somehow is reassuring to many people as a representation of continuity and familiarity. How would your old Dad feel if his daily copy of The Times, The Telegraph, The Express, The Mail, The Guardian or even The FT were to disappear in the same fashion as The News of the World.
So when GB News launched a couple of years ago, I didn't think much about it. Andrew Neil said GBNews had enough money to broadcast for 6 months after which the station would have to pay for itself through advertising revenue. £60 million. 3 months after they launched Andrew Neil left the channel claiming it was a farce. Talk TV was launched earlier this year and it's the same brand of scum
I have been watching a bit of GBNews and TalkTV, by way of keeping an open mind, and their advertising revenue is bollocks. So, I decided to do a bit of research to see if the internet could tell me who was actually funding these opinion channels that are masquerading as news outlets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB_News#: ... leaning%22.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TalkTV_(B ... The%20Talk.
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Re: Who is buying our news coverage ?
Youre just now figuring this out? Its all crap.
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Ultimately, they're competing for a limited set of eyes, so they appear to have settled on a tactic of trying to encourage clickbaity rage-reading. It's a fact of life, unfortunately.kk67 wrote:They have huge mounting debt from which none of them will ever recover. Print is a dead industry but like a wounded animal they are still very dangerous.
They could do what some news outlets in NZ have done and go with the gig economy model of Patreon-style reader donations, but even that will still result in outrage-bait shit that you see in Tory rags written by cunts like Littlejohn.
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Is that why you voted for a fascist?Coco wrote:Youre just now figuring this out? Its all crap.
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who wants to know?cashead wrote:Is that why you voted for a fascist?Coco wrote:Youre just now figuring this out? Its all crap.
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Not seeing a denial that you voted for a fascist.Coco wrote:who wants to know?cashead wrote:Is that why you voted for a fascist?Coco wrote:Youre just now figuring this out? Its all crap.
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Awwwee cashead... quit flirting with me... its embarrassing.cashead wrote:Not seeing a denial that you voted for a fascist.Coco wrote:who wants to know?cashead wrote: Is that why you voted for a fascist?
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Is this your attempt at deflecting a question about you voting for a fascist?Coco wrote:Awwwee cashead... quit flirting with me... its embarrassing.cashead wrote:Not seeing a denial that you voted for a fascist.Coco wrote:
who wants to know?
Also, letting you know now as a courtesy, since you have a history of posting TERFy shit, that will no longer be tolerated.
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No denial.cashead wrote:Not seeing a denial that you voted for a fascist.Coco wrote:who wants to know?cashead wrote: Is that why you voted for a fascist?
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cashead... Please be more specific... who is a fascist, and what is TERFy?... slang of some sort? Im not hip with the kids apparently. Would you please explain?cashead wrote:Is this your attempt at deflecting a question about you voting for a fascist?Coco wrote:Awwwee cashead... quit flirting with me... its embarrassing.cashead wrote: Not seeing a denial that you voted for a fascist.
Also, letting you know now as a courtesy, since you have a history of posting TERFy shit, that will no longer be tolerated.
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Re: Who is buying our news coverage ?
Do you not have access to Google? Let's try not sealioning, because I assure you, if you intend to fuck around, you will find out.Coco wrote:cashead... Please be more specific... who is a fascist, and what is TERFy?... slang of some sort? Im not hip with the kids apparently. Would you please explain?cashead wrote:Is this your attempt at deflecting a question about you voting for a fascist?Coco wrote:
Awwwee cashead... quit flirting with me... its embarrassing.
Also, letting you know now as a courtesy, since you have a history of posting TERFy shit, that will no longer be tolerated.
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Really? Is this the sort of community we want to be?cashead wrote:Do you not have access to Google? Let's try not sealioning, because I assure you, if you intend to fuck around, you will find out.Coco wrote:cashead... Please be more specific... who is a fascist, and what is TERFy?... slang of some sort? Im not hip with the kids apparently. Would you please explain?cashead wrote: Is this your attempt at deflecting a question about you voting for a fascist?
Also, letting you know now as a courtesy, since you have a history of posting TERFy shit, that will no longer be tolerated.
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Considering your established track record when it comes to transphobia and TERF shit, deciding to wade in isn’t the smartest decision you’ve made.Donny osmond wrote:Really? Is this the sort of community we want to be?cashead wrote:Do you not have access to Google? Let's try not sealioning, because I assure you, if you intend to fuck around, you will find out.Coco wrote:
cashead... Please be more specific... who is a fascist, and what is TERFy?... slang of some sort? Im not hip with the kids apparently. Would you please explain?
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Yes this will bring people to the boards to discuss the issues of the day, no mistakecashead wrote:Considering your established track record when it comes to transphobia and TERF shit, deciding to wade in isn’t the smartest decision you’ve made.Donny osmond wrote:Really? Is this the sort of community we want to be?cashead wrote: Do you not have access to Google? Let's try not sealioning, because I assure you, if you intend to fuck around, you will find out.
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Please...no more imported fake culture wars. "Fake Gnus", "woke", legislation by theocracy, blaming immigrants for the former....they can all fuck off.
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God forbid we don’t get to punch down some more at an already vulnerable community.Donny osmond wrote:Yes this will bring people to the boards to discuss the issues of the day, no mistakecashead wrote:Considering your established track record when it comes to transphobia and TERF shit, deciding to wade in isn’t the smartest decision you’ve made.Donny osmond wrote:Really? Is this the sort of community we want to be?
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I do have Google, but asked you to please explain what you meant by your comment.... specifically, and now youve threatened me out of the blue. What the heck is sealioning... Are you ok?cashead wrote:Do you not have access to Google? Let's try not sealioning, because I assure you, if you intend to fuck around, you will find out.Coco wrote:cashead... Please be more specific... who is a fascist, and what is TERFy?... slang of some sort? Im not hip with the kids apparently. Would you please explain?cashead wrote: Is this your attempt at deflecting a question about you voting for a fascist?
Also, letting you know now as a courtesy, since you have a history of posting TERFy shit, that will no longer be tolerated.
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If you’ve got access to a search engine, then go look it up.Coco wrote:I do have Google, but asked you to please explain what you meant by your comment.... specifically, and now youve threatened me out of the blue. What the heck is sealioning... Are you ok?cashead wrote:Do you not have access to Google? Let's try not sealioning, because I assure you, if you intend to fuck around, you will find out.Coco wrote:
cashead... Please be more specific... who is a fascist, and what is TERFy?... slang of some sort? Im not hip with the kids apparently. Would you please explain?
And if you find that being told “punching down at a vulnerable community that was previously inexplicably tolerated no longer will be” to be “threatening,” then have a think about what that says about you.
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Thats not what you said or how you said it cashead.cashead wrote:If you’ve got access to a search engine, then go look it up.Coco wrote:I do have Google, but asked you to please explain what you meant by your comment.... specifically, and now youve threatened me out of the blue. What the heck is sealioning... Are you ok?cashead wrote: Do you not have access to Google? Let's try not sealioning, because I assure you, if you intend to fuck around, you will find out.
And if you find that being told “punching down at a vulnerable community that was previously inexplicably tolerated no longer will be” to be “threatening,” then have a think about what that says about you.
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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Written here, as clear as day.Coco wrote:Thats not what you said or how you said it cashead.cashead wrote:If you’ve got access to a search engine, then go look it up.Coco wrote:
I do have Google, but asked you to please explain what you meant by your comment.... specifically, and now youve threatened me out of the blue. What the heck is sealioning... Are you ok?
And if you find that being told “punching down at a vulnerable community that was previously inexplicably tolerated no longer will be” to be “threatening,” then have a think about what that says about you.
cashead wrote:
Also, letting you know now as a courtesy, since you have a history of posting TERFy shit, that will no longer be tolerated.
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Nah, no clarity in that... I asked you what you meant but you wont explain your own comment... told me to use Google. I cant take you serious.cashead wrote:Written here, as clear as day.Coco wrote:Thats not what you said or how you said it cashead.cashead wrote: If you’ve got access to a search engine, then go look it up.
And if you find that being told “punching down at a vulnerable community that was previously inexplicably tolerated no longer will be” to be “threatening,” then have a think about what that says about you.
cashead wrote:
Also, letting you know now as a courtesy, since you have a history of posting TERFy shit, that will no longer be tolerated.
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If you don’t know what a TERF is, despite having posted previously in the TERF thread, then that’s on you, not me.Coco wrote:Nah, no clarity in that... I asked you what you meant but you wont explain your own comment... told me to use Google. I cant take you serious.cashead wrote:Written here, as clear as day.Coco wrote:
Thats not what you said or how you said it cashead.
cashead wrote:
Also, letting you know now as a courtesy, since you have a history of posting TERFy shit, that will no longer be tolerated.
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I looked up "TERF".. sounds derogatory, did you mean it that way, cashead? OR, can I possibly be just a woman, stating my feeling, life experience as a woman, and opinions stemming from my experiences? I also went through the thread you spoke of (from 2019), looking for "TERFy shit" that I "have a habit of posting". I could not find anything, other than saying that I, as a woman, am uncomfortable being referred to as a "cis-female". I stand by that, still. I am just a woman, or female. Was there something else I said in that thread that upset you, or that justified you calling me TERFy, cashead? If so, please let me know.cashead wrote:If you don’t know what a TERF is, despite having posted previously in the TERF thread, then that’s on you, not me.Coco wrote:Nah, no clarity in that... I asked you what you meant but you wont explain your own comment... told me to use Google. I cant take you serious.cashead wrote:
Written here, as clear as day.
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Holy shit, word-for-word TERF talking points. Point. Fucking. Proven.
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Im asking so I understand what upset you.cashead wrote:Holy shit, word-for-word TERF talking points. Point. Fucking. Proven.
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