Murdoch Predicts Gloomy Future for Press
According to the Guardian, Rupert Murdoch is ruffling the establishment media’s feathers again, this time forecasting a gloomy future for newspapers with the growth of the internet, saying he doesn’t know “anybody under the age of 30 who has ever looked at a classified ad.” Here’s how it’s being received by the establishment press:
At a conference last month, the WPP group chief executive, Sir Martin Sorrell, accused Mr. Murdoch of buying web operations “willy nilly”.
What Mr. Sorrell isn’t saying is that newspapers’ revenues from classified ads is drying up, a ‘phenomenon’ that bloggers like Hugh Hewitt, who wrote a book titled Blog : Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World, Glenn Reynolds of InstaPundit and others have been talking about for well over a year.
The reality is that informed young people don’t automatically order subscriptions to newspapers like they did a generation ago. There are several reasons for that.
One of the most important reasons for that is because of the scandals that have plagued the formerly mainstream media, especially over this past year. People want information that they see as accurate. That confidence isn’t there after Rathergate, Easongate and the Jayson Blair scandal.
Another important reason for the decline in newspaper readership is because an increasing number of people can access the Internet, read the wire services for the initial reporting, and skip over to a blog for deeper analysis of the news. Whether they’re searching for reports on President Bush’s judicial nominees to Jack Murtha’s calls for immediate “troop redeployment” to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the words “under God” are unconstitutional to a soldier’s blog from Iraq, reporting on the daily progress being made there.
The best part of this is the near instantaneous nature of the reporting, researching and analyzing of news events. It’s quite possible to have digested the reporting of news, along with the analysis of the various news events long before the daily newspapers arrive. Simply put, people don’t want to wait to read slanted reporting about an event that they’ve read about half a day earlier.
Finally, people in general will seek out those reporters and pundits that forward the most compelling and logical explanations of the day’s events and the most accurate reporting of the basics of the story. Simply put, bloggers are in the best position to report and analyze the news because (a) they aren’t bound by deadlines; (b) they report and analyze on a 24 hour basis; and (c) there’s so many internet sites that can be used to verify the initial reporting’s accuracy, whether it’s going to Centcom’s website to verify or invalidate the accuracy about progress in Iraq or to the World Health Organization’s website for the latest on the Avian flu or FactCheck.org’s site to find their research into whether Joe Wilson was truthful about what he found in Niger (He wasn’t, according to FactCheck’s research)
In short, people don’t have to rely on newspapers because the volume of accurate information on the Internet is incredible.
That said, it’s important to trust only those bloggers who link to the source of their information and whose opinions aren’t just emotional diatribes. The best of bloggers are those that consistently make compelling arguments for their opinions based on verifiable facts and whose opinions are intellectually defensible.
Anything short of that isn’t consistently reliable or worthy of daily attention.
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRing
November 25th, 2005 at 4:04 pm
Nothing is free my friend.
Program on the emergence of civilization.
“14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent. ”
Favor.
And disfavor.
They point out Africans’ failed attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it’s applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.
The roots of racism are not of this earth.
Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.
The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.
AIDS in Africa.
Organizational Heirarchy/Levels of positioning.
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:
1. MUCK - perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as “god”
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management
3. Evil/disfavored aliens - runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere
Terrestrial management/positioning:
4. Chinese/egyptians - this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans -
6. Mafia - the real-world 20th century interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician - Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.
Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1985 James Bond View to a Kill 1989 San Francisco Loma Prieta earthquake.
Our society gives clues to the system in place. We all have heard the saying “He has more money than god.” There is also an episode of the Simpsons where god meets Homer and says “I’m too old and rich for this.”
This is the system on earth because this is the system everywhere.
I don’t want to suggest the upper eschelons are evil and good is the fringe.
But they have made it abundantly clear that doing business with evil (disfavored) won’t help people. They say only good would have the ear, since evil is struggling for survival, and therefore only the favored could help.
The clues are there which companies are favored and which are disfavored, but they conceal it very hard because it is so crucial.
I offer an example of historical proportions:::
People point to Walmart and cry “anti-union”.
Unions enable disfavored people to live satisfactorly without addressing their disfavor. This way their family’s problems are never resolved. Without the union they would have to accept the heirarchy, their own inferiority.
Unions serve to empower.
Walmart is anti-union because they are good. They try to help people address and resolve their problems by creating an enviornment where there are fewer hurdles.
Media ridicule and lawsuits are creations to reinforce people’s belief that Walmart is evil in a subsegment of the indistry dominated by the middle and lower classes.
Low-cost disfavored Chinese labor is utilized by corporate america to maximize margins. They all do it. Only WalMart gets fingered because they are the ones who help, and those who seek to create confusion in the marketplace want to eliminate the vast middle class who have a real chance and instead stick with lower classes who may not work otherwise. So they dirty him up while allowing the others to appear clean.
The middle class is being deceived. They are being misled into the unfavored, and subsequently will have no assistance from their purchases with corporate america.
I believe the coining of the term “Uncle Sam” was a clue alluding to just this::Sam Walton and WalMart is one of few saviors of the peasant class.
Amercia is a country of castoffs, rejects. Italy sent its criminals, malcontents.
Between the thrones, the klans and kindred, they “decided” who they didn’t want and acted, creating discontent and/or starvation.
The u.s. is full of disfavored rejects. It is the reason for the myriad of problems not found in European countries. As far as the Rockafellers and other industrialists of the 19th century go, I suspect these aren’t their real names. I suspect they were chosen to go and head this new empire.
Royalty is the right way to organize a society. Dictatorships and monarchies are a reflection of the antient’s hierarchical organization.
Positions go to those who have favor with the rulers, as opposed to being elected.
Elections bring a false sense of how the world is. Democracy misleads people.
Which is why the disfavored rejects were sent to the shores of America::To keep them on the wrong path.
Jews maim the body formed in the image of “god”, and inflicted circumsision upon all other white people, as well as the evil that is Jesus Christ.
I think about how Jews (were used to) created homosexuality among Slavics, retribution for the Holocaust.
Then I think of the Catholic Church and its troubles.
What connection is here between Jews and the Catholic church???
If it is their sinister motives that’s behind the evil that is Jesus Christ are they being used at all?
Perhaps it is them who are pulling strings.
Their centuries of slavery in Egypt proves their disfavor.
The Jew leaders decided to prey on the up-and-coming Europeans to try to fix their problems with the ruling elite, a recurring aspect of the elite’s methodology.
Jesus Christ is a religious figure of evil. The seperatist churches formed so they could still capture the rest of the white people, keeping them worshipping the wrong god.
And now they do it to people of color, Latinos and Asians, after centuries of preying upon them.
Since Buddism doesn’t recongnize a god, the calls are never heard, and Chinese representation is instead selected by the thrones.
Budda was the Asian’s Jesus Christ::: bad for the people. “They came up at the same time for a reason.”
Simpson’s foreshadowing::Helloween IV special, Flanders is Satan. “Last one you ever suspect.”
“You’ll see lots of nuns where you’re going:::hell!!!” St. Wigham, Helloween VI, missionary work, destroying cultures.
Over and over, the Simpsons was a source of education and enlightenment, a target of ridicule by the system which wishes to conceal its secrets.
I believe Islam is the one true religion, and those misled christians who attack “god”’s most favored people will pay dearly one day.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:32 pm
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