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Sharon Core's avatar

I would suggest that TFP adopt a more serious promotional language. After reading about the staggering courage of Kara-Murza, it puts me off to see a phrase like “if you are hungry for more great content…” I don’t appreciate the folksy corporate sales speak that casts the reader literally as a “content consumer.” This is serious journalism after all, right?

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Steve's avatar

You are Not a content consumer?

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Sharon Core's avatar

No, I don’t view journalism as “content” - a filling up of a space. I may subscribe to TFP but I’m not a consumer- a buyer of product. I don’t come here to buy media but to learn about the world.

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Infotanment passing as News Leading headlines

The Washington Examiner (The Right)

WATCH LIVE: Pentagon UFO leader to testify before Senate Armed Services subcommittee

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/watch-live-senate-armed-services-subcommittee-threats-capabilities

AP (IMO The Left)

Republicans object to replacing Feinstein on Judiciary panel

https://apnews.com/article/feinstein-mcconnell-judiciary-temporary-replacement-66d8a1614e962ccfb7c9252c0ccf2a96

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Journalism IS Content.

"I don’t come here to buy media but to learn about the world."

You are buying it with you eyeballs. The Free Press makes money every time you click on, just like every site (News or otherwise).

A Favorite quote of mine that Michael Crichton made in 2005

"But Chernobyl started me on a new path. When I began to research these old fears to find out what had been said in the past, I discovered several important things. The first is that there’s nothing more sobering than a 30-year-old newspaper. You can’t figure out what the headlines mean, you don’t know who the people are. Theodore Green, John Sparkman, George Reedy, Jack Watson. Who were they? You thumb through page after page of vanished concerns, issues that apparently were important at the time and now don’t matter at all. It’s amazing how many pressing concerns are literally of the moment. They won’t matter in six months, and certainly not in six years, and if they won’t matter then, are they really worth our attention now?

But as David Brinkley once said, the one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news, we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."

Link

https://www.independent.org/events/transcript.asp?id=111#2

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