kilgore trout: I think it’s great an entire swath of news media consists of firing actual reporters and editors to save money used to commission expensive dowsing-rod polls that can be breathlessly remarked upon by six figure salary opinion columnists who haven’t worked a real job one day in their life

I think it’s great an entire swath of news media consists of firing actual reporters and editors to save money used to commission expensive dowsing-rod polls that can be breathlessly remarked upon by six figure salary opinion columnists who haven’t worked a real job one day in their life

I mean, have you thought how fucking insane this cry-poor business model is

like, maybe try cutting out the avocado toast guys

The one job that would see no degradation in quality by being replaced by genAI.

"We need someone with no understanding of the real world to confidently spout arbitrary nonsense that doesn't even need to be consistent with last week's arbitrary nonsense" is the most AI-able job in existence and yet

what are you talking about, i want all my news processed through the imagined dialogues in maureen dowd's brain

Why would NBC have ever cut that deal with Megyn fucking Kelly?

basically just handed her tens of millions of dollars before suddenly remembering she's a total racist and sending her on her merry way

when opinion polling started becoming big in the late 1930s, there was a ton of writing about how harmful it is to democracy, and even George Gallup thought he'd use 1936 election as a promotional tool for his product but didn't think it was a good idea per se onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Also fun how much the name "Keith Murdoch" comes up in this article www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

‘A worse importation than chewing gum’: American Influences on The Australian Press and Their Limits—The Australian Gallup Poll, 1941–1973www.tandfonline.com Published in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (Vol. 30, No. 3, 2010)

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Yes. Freedom of the press.

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