Originally Posted by
Blue Skies
Hey people, the term 'Main Stream Media' hints at what it is, broadly in the main or middle stream of the media landscape & mainstream society.
If you think the MSM is extreme, either socialist communist, or fascist & the level of rage you feel towards them, do you ever think maybe its time for some self reflection about where your beliefs & attitudes sit in relation to mainstream society?
Just FYI of every $1 dollar spent on advertising in NZ, 90c of it now goes offshore to X formally Twitter, or Facebook, You Tube etc.
That leaves just 10c to be spread among TV1, Newshub, the Herald, Stuff, ODT, all the Radio Stations around NZ, all the local newspapers, magazines etc to survive on.
The problem with this is people thinking they will just get their news off online sources like X or Facebook or You Tube, are being force fed information through algorithms which are designed to prioritise antagonising them, over informing them, to keep them returning for more.
You can see it in the way people are becoming increasingly polarised, obsessive & even deluded & the levels of hate & anger increasing off the scale.
Without some sort of govt funding of media OR the hugely powerful giants like X & Facebook agreeing to pay for some of the local news content they platform, we won't have any local news or investigative journalists left to cover the issues which are important to NZ'ers.