I made this comment elsewhere on this. Reposting here cause why not
The problem here is that this person starts at the wrong conclusion and works backwards into a "what is evil" argument. She doesn't know what the actual problem is because she is a willing part of it. Instead she blames the many many faults and failings on capitalism.
Here is the problem that you are blind to, Ariana:
MSNBC isn't seeking profit, except secondarily within their mandate. They are seeking audience with a demographic they are attempting to cultivate. MSNBC starts with a desired outcome and tries to fit a profit model into that, not the other way around. It is not capitalism that you are seeing.
You look at the elevating of radical thought as a kind of ratings grab, without noticing that it is extremely unpopular outside of the audience bubble your network is doggedly serving that barely exists. There is a reason that MSNBC has always competed for 4th fiddle in the news ratings, and only now sees some growth thanks to the heat-death of CNN.
It is very telling that you can't see this and instead fall back onto a tired argument of "commercial interests are killing us". The reason is, you are fully on-board and happy with the core mandate of the network, and you're rationalizing against seeing it fail. You think you have the answer for how to best get propaganda across, but you refuse to admit that it is unpalatable propaganda you're hawking so that when it gets muddied or sidelined you think something impure and evil has happened. "This damn capitalist system" you rage impotently.
MSNBC and you were made for each other. Your complaints are as empty and vapid as your worldview that has blinded you to reality. I wonder if the network will feel your loss, because True Believers like you are, honestly, quite cheap and easy to replace.
It is very telling that you can't see this and instead fall back onto a tired argument of "commercial interests are killing us"
This. I commend some of the realizations she's come to, but she still seems both naive and just trying to rationalize things to herself in a lot of it. Probably because she still sees those people as part of her "tribe".
Like, she mentions that she didn't like how MSNBC was stoking division in the country, that her bosses are purposefully omitting context and facts from their reporting, and laments that our educational system doesn't seem to teach critical thinking skills anymore. She says she's heard the producers claim they're not even trying to be journalists. She also mentions that a lot of content was chosen based on what's trending online that day (trends which are proven to be heavily manipulated).
It doesn't seem to cross her mind that all those things are intentional. She thinks it's simple negligence and misguided profit chasing. Not that her bosses didn't want to report the facts, encourage critical thinking, encourage unity in the country, or deviate from the approved social media trends because they're propagandists instead of journalists.
I can, at least, agree with her though that the system should change and it would be nice if journalists actually reported real news again.
I made this comment elsewhere on this. Reposting here cause why not
The problem here is that this person starts at the wrong conclusion and works backwards into a "what is evil" argument. She doesn't know what the actual problem is because she is a willing part of it. Instead she blames the many many faults and failings on capitalism.
Here is the problem that you are blind to, Ariana:
MSNBC isn't seeking profit, except secondarily within their mandate. They are seeking audience with a demographic they are attempting to cultivate. MSNBC starts with a desired outcome and tries to fit a profit model into that, not the other way around. It is not capitalism that you are seeing.
You look at the elevating of radical thought as a kind of ratings grab, without noticing that it is extremely unpopular outside of the audience bubble your network is doggedly serving that barely exists. There is a reason that MSNBC has always competed for 4th fiddle in the news ratings, and only now sees some growth thanks to the heat-death of CNN.
It is very telling that you can't see this and instead fall back onto a tired argument of "commercial interests are killing us". The reason is, you are fully on-board and happy with the core mandate of the network, and you're rationalizing against seeing it fail. You think you have the answer for how to best get propaganda across, but you refuse to admit that it is unpalatable propaganda you're hawking so that when it gets muddied or sidelined you think something impure and evil has happened. "This damn capitalist system" you rage impotently.
MSNBC and you were made for each other. Your complaints are as empty and vapid as your worldview that has blinded you to reality. I wonder if the network will feel your loss, because True Believers like you are, honestly, quite cheap and easy to replace.
This. I commend some of the realizations she's come to, but she still seems both naive and just trying to rationalize things to herself in a lot of it. Probably because she still sees those people as part of her "tribe".
Like, she mentions that she didn't like how MSNBC was stoking division in the country, that her bosses are purposefully omitting context and facts from their reporting, and laments that our educational system doesn't seem to teach critical thinking skills anymore. She says she's heard the producers claim they're not even trying to be journalists. She also mentions that a lot of content was chosen based on what's trending online that day (trends which are proven to be heavily manipulated).
It doesn't seem to cross her mind that all those things are intentional. She thinks it's simple negligence and misguided profit chasing. Not that her bosses didn't want to report the facts, encourage critical thinking, encourage unity in the country, or deviate from the approved social media trends because they're propagandists instead of journalists.
I can, at least, agree with her though that the system should change and it would be nice if journalists actually reported real news again.