The hilarious final paragraph where a billionaire is criticising the "elites" is just the icing on the cake:

> He also criticised other media outlets as being "in cahoots" with a "rarefied class" of elites who he accused of "peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth".

I wish we could get more Cronkite style anchors, who prided themselves on delivering information to the public in an unemotional and straightforward manner. Instead we get emotionally charged news anchors who are trying to incite the strongest reactions they can get.

I always loved the video of Cronkite delivering the news of Kennedy's assassination. https://youtu.be/6PXORQE5-CY?si=papzPPt00V8GC6Hp&t=64

A level-headed Cronkite-like figure would work well in an environment where "the media" knows to get out of the way when there isn't any urgent news to report (e.g., a 9/11-style emergency). But that doesn't make advertisers or shareholders happy, so we're stuck in a ratchet-up environment where EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT ALL THE TIME SO KEEP WATCHING KEEP WATCHING KEEP WATCHING!!!

It's not difficult to acquire the ten minutes worth of actual news per day. If you're consuming more than that, the problem isn't with the anchor. It's that you want to be entertained rather than informed.

here is a fantastic analysis of Network and rise of the news anchors in the framing of Network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlCLZIn38ao

It would be more accurate to target wealth inequality, which will disproportionately target the old wealthy people by nature (and also younger people who are wealthy through wealthy prior generation).

Some decades are more lucky than others when it comes to the generation of wealth. That is an inequality in itself and it affects everyone not just the top

And we know that wealth tax does not work because of the structure of the world financial system. We can't pretend that if we try again and again it will work.

The inequality of housing in particular is a result of generational demographic factors which led to political choices (low inflation mandate - high interest rates are being imposed on new generations to pay for housing obtained with record low interest rates). These are cases where democracy fails and cannot guarantee the fundamental right to housing (in fact it actively fights it). Bandaids cannot solve this

Even my dad, who has both a 401K and a pension and Social Security and draws $70K yearly from them even though his living expenses are around $20K... he is hardcore into the idea of doing whatever makes the Dow go up, because that to him is the greatest good.

Is that so, Rupert? A bit like this, perhaps?

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1159819849/fox-news-dominion-...

https://gizmodo.com/fox-news-edits-trump-out-of-photo-with-j...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage_of_the_Hillsborough_d...

I mean, it sounds very much like he's describing _his own_ media outlets.

(I think any media company should be very cautious of making claims like this, but it's particularly absurd coming from _bloody News Corp_).

That's what a racist does. A racist sees everything in terms of race. You are seeing everything in terms of race, and telling other people to see things in terms of race.

Please do not inject racism into things that don't have anything to do with race.

You probably think that it wasn't you who started this racist fire — that you're just pointing out something Rupert Murdoch secretly believes, but (a) you aren't a mind reader — you are just assuming his thoughts based on your opinion, and (b) you are still adding fuel to the fire of racism.

Bill O'Reilly

Roger Ailes

Rush Limbaugh

Alex Jones

Tucker Carlson

Rupert Murdoch

Good riddance, all.

he got something like 480m views on his latest interview with an argentinian presidential candidate

it 2x'd his interview with trump overnight

The world is changing, whether people like it or not.

Watch and wake up, you deep asleep!

For some context Mr Beast videos have ~100m views and his content is geared towards children with a ton of time on their hands.

the spanish internet base is larger

Some of my friends in Eastern Europe are huge fans, but I can't really figure out why, to me he's just another conservative interviewer/host.

We'll see how this X-career pans out. Remember when Facebook used to report massive video viewership, and it turned out to be miscounted nonsense that ruined businesses that pivoted to videos on FB?

Yes, he's getting impressions. But are people actually watching significant portions of the video? You have no idea at all.

And how's his revenue? That's only one way to measure success, but it's a pretty important one. And you have no idea at all.

I would rather wish he didn't. Ah well, can't leave well enough alone. Hopefully the world can bid goodbye to the last of the sith lords one of these days.

It'd take a lot more than Murdock fading from the scene for that to happen. Don't fool yourself into thinking that all will be right in the world because ${prolific figure} is less involved in it. The Mafia didn't cease to exist after Capone, they just learned from his mistakes and didn't make showmen of themselves.

But also Murdoch is one of the driving forces in this brave new world where you have to be extreme to be acceptable. If it weren't for Murdoch, allegedly, we wouldn't need to call someone actually Hitler in order to be sufficiently devout to our partisanship.

The greatest irony of his success is that the same people who personally trumpet their visceral hate for Murdoch will also tell you with a straight face that the Great Man theory of history is harmfully and false and everyone is only a product of greater historical trends.

> The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is conservative-destructive, and you've cast your lot with the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society. You can be better, and this is going to be your legacy if you're not careful.

It didn't work last time; I suppose it remains to be seen whether he's actually abrogating authority this time.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xflqt2

Possibly NSFW