This stings more tbh because local news is a part of my nostalgia. It just felt a lot more relatable because it concerns news happening in your own backyard, but it's all fake too, and in the giant economic zone that is the US what little regional culture there is in many places has largely vanished. Even in the parts of the country with deeper roots regional culture is vanishing.
Local news outlets have always been corrupt of course, just like their national and international counterparts, just on a smaller scale. But regardless, real, actual local news, rather than this homogenized slop, desperately needs to make a comeback, because there's so much more that regular people can influence locally than nationally.
I no longer watch MSM, but when I catch someone else looking at it I've noticed a lot of what gets passed off as "local news" is just advertising for local businesses masquerading as news.
All local news is good for is the weather report and sports scores. Anyone who relies on the MSM for information--and especially commentary--on current events gets what he deserves: lies and groupthink. Watching it is good only for comparison to independent freelancers with some credibility, and they are in short supply.
I think the proliferation of at-home entertainment greatly accelerated the destruction of regional culture. There is so much atomization inherent in people sequestering themselves away to watch Netflix and play videos games all day. How does that not annihilate any sense of neighborhood or community? How many people today have no idea who lives across the hall or across the street? And it starts so young now that we have multiple generations of people never knew anything else.
How do you defend your culture in the face of such atomization? Look at the peoples who don’t have the “benefit” of such hedonist escapism. They still have the capacity to project positive cultural force. All they have to do is resist the siren call of modern media, and their cultural dominance is assured. So many in the west paint these “backward savages” as stupid - and they frequently are - but they have evolved a strategy that will see them through. So who is the true retard?
All true and there is natural globalization and hyper-socialization from technology (Uncle Ted was right) but I think a lot of it can be firewalled through stronger force of law. Most people get their news fed to them from BigTech trending headlines, cable giants, newspapers (even if indirectly), and local tv. They get culture from trending videos, social media, and TV. All of this could be regulated through legislation if we had the will to do so. Make mass media local again. Enforce true free speech online. Forbid companies from complying with foreign laws. Restructure all mass communications to eliminate the fourth estate.
Part of the problem is that most "independent" media is just commentary, rather than investigative journalism, so even though everyone hates the MSM, most indie media just comments on whatever the MSM puts out anyways. And the few people doing actual indie journalism get dismissed as "crackpots" by optics cucks chasing "respectability" and access because when you actually do your own investigating, you end up finding a lot of "conspiracy theories" aka the radical notion that the government does stuff it's not supposed to do and then lies about it.
This stings more tbh because local news is a part of my nostalgia. It just felt a lot more relatable because it concerns news happening in your own backyard, but it's all fake too, and in the giant economic zone that is the US what little regional culture there is in many places has largely vanished. Even in the parts of the country with deeper roots regional culture is vanishing.
Local news outlets have always been corrupt of course, just like their national and international counterparts, just on a smaller scale. But regardless, real, actual local news, rather than this homogenized slop, desperately needs to make a comeback, because there's so much more that regular people can influence locally than nationally.
I no longer watch MSM, but when I catch someone else looking at it I've noticed a lot of what gets passed off as "local news" is just advertising for local businesses masquerading as news.
Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
i'd genuinely prefer that over whatever globohomo current thing slop they want me to care about
All local news is good for is the weather report and sports scores. Anyone who relies on the MSM for information--and especially commentary--on current events gets what he deserves: lies and groupthink. Watching it is good only for comparison to independent freelancers with some credibility, and they are in short supply.
I think the proliferation of at-home entertainment greatly accelerated the destruction of regional culture. There is so much atomization inherent in people sequestering themselves away to watch Netflix and play videos games all day. How does that not annihilate any sense of neighborhood or community? How many people today have no idea who lives across the hall or across the street? And it starts so young now that we have multiple generations of people never knew anything else.
How do you defend your culture in the face of such atomization? Look at the peoples who don’t have the “benefit” of such hedonist escapism. They still have the capacity to project positive cultural force. All they have to do is resist the siren call of modern media, and their cultural dominance is assured. So many in the west paint these “backward savages” as stupid - and they frequently are - but they have evolved a strategy that will see them through. So who is the true retard?
All true and there is natural globalization and hyper-socialization from technology (Uncle Ted was right) but I think a lot of it can be firewalled through stronger force of law. Most people get their news fed to them from BigTech trending headlines, cable giants, newspapers (even if indirectly), and local tv. They get culture from trending videos, social media, and TV. All of this could be regulated through legislation if we had the will to do so. Make mass media local again. Enforce true free speech online. Forbid companies from complying with foreign laws. Restructure all mass communications to eliminate the fourth estate.
Part of the problem is that most "independent" media is just commentary, rather than investigative journalism, so even though everyone hates the MSM, most indie media just comments on whatever the MSM puts out anyways. And the few people doing actual indie journalism get dismissed as "crackpots" by optics cucks chasing "respectability" and access because when you actually do your own investigating, you end up finding a lot of "conspiracy theories" aka the radical notion that the government does stuff it's not supposed to do and then lies about it.