Tucker and Elon together at last!

[gadje]

hopefully both Tucker and Twitter go together into obscurity.

[gabester]

jonny wrote:
I love it. Tucker can shoot as loud as he wants into the void. It'll be so nice to stop seeing his face in the headlines.

Except that a core issue with journalism particularly TV/mass media journalism outside of newspapers - which are sadly dying off like organic endangered species - is that the journalism world is very "online" meaning that they're in the same echo-chamber of posts, tweets, and online rabbit holes. It's insular and it's where things like Qanon come from; the (dis)information structures are self reinforcing.

I'm not articulating this clearly. Let me try again.

Remember the previous Presidency? The guy could tweet nonsense and it would get news coverage. The same may well happen for Cucker Tarlson. (Note - I just had to try to type that 3 times because autocorrect kept fixing it for me...)

[AllGold]

gabester wrote:
[quote=jonny]
I love it. Tucker can shoot as loud as he wants into the void. It'll be so nice to stop seeing his face in the headlines.

Except that a core issue with journalism particularly TV/mass media journalism outside of newspapers - which are sadly dying off like organic endangered species - is that the journalism world is very "online" meaning that they're in the same echo-chamber of posts, tweets, and online rabbit holes. It's insular and it's where things like Qanon come from; the (dis)information structures are self reinforcing.

I'm not articulating this clearly. Let me try again.

Remember the previous Presidency? The guy could tweet nonsense and it would get news coverage. The same may well happen for Cucker Tarlson. (Note - I just had to try to type that 3 times because autocorrect kept fixing it for me...)
That's a very valid criticism. However, I hope Cucker's influence will be vastly reduced because he will be doing his show in the form of video on Twitter. Long form video on Twitter is not exactly ideal.

[jonny]

My money says he quickly follows the spiraling path forged by Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck.

[Carnos Jax]

Me too. Those guys are nothing now. None of his traditional audience will follow him to Twitter, they don't know how.

[pdq]

Speedy wrote:
Maybe Elon can add to his stable.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/08/media/fox...le-sources

New York (CNN) — Bret Baier’s standing as a “fair and balanced” newsman is being called into question like never before.

The Fox News chief political anchor has long enjoyed a strong reputation in Washington circles and among viewers, anchoring major news events for the network and moderating presidential debates. While its never been a secret that Baier’s program carries a conservative bent, he’s widely been considered a respected figure who adheres to traditional journalistic ethics and standards.

That reputation, however, has been ruptured in recent months by the release of leaked private text messages sent in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, casting the “Special Report” anchor in a dramatically different light.

Bret Baier was the one who announced on Faux, with all seriousness, on the eve of the 2016 election, that he had gotten word from the FBI that an indictment for Hillary Clinton was “imminent”.

It was so outrageous, he had to walk all that BS back the next day. That in itself should permanently remove the words “respected” and “traditional journalistic ethics and standards” from any association from him.

[RAMd®d]

The boy ain't right.


That made me spew a little Diet Dr. Pepper.

[gabester]

AllGold wrote:
[quote=gabester]
Remember the previous Presidency? The guy could tweet nonsense and it would get news coverage. The same may well happen for Cucker Tarlson. (Note - I just had to try to type that 3 times because autocorrect kept fixing it for me...)

That's a very valid criticism. However, I hope Cucker's influence will be vastly reduced because he will be doing his show in the form of video on Twitter. Long form video on Twitter is not exactly ideal.
I suppose we could all do our part to make twitter serving up this pap too expensive by running the video stream in as many browsers as possible... initially it would look like great viewership and benefit Twitter by way of advertising revenue... but presumably at some point you could make the bandwidth costs exceed the ad revenue.

Anyone know what that breaking point is?

[GGD]

Since he and his followers are big on "going back to the way things used to be", he should do his entire show in written text, 140 characters at a time.