Showing posts with label virtual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtual. Show all posts

Sunday, August 18, 2019

What Happened to the News Media in America? Part 2 – The Golden Age of News – Destroyers of the Truth


Finally, I get to Part 2, the “Destroyers of the Truth.”  Turn your clock back to the 1970’s, the twilight of the Golden Age of news.  Events starting in the early 1960’s like the Cold War between the USA and Soviet Union, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, then Watergate shook the news business to the bone.



Instead of a fifteen-minute national news broadcast, they expanded to 30 minutes with additional “news” shows like 20/20 or Sixty minutes among others added to the line-up.  This and a demand for real time coverage of events like the Kennedy assassination in 1963, where network coverage pre-empted regular programming, changed the face of media forever.


Suddenly national and local news became a big deal which led to an explosion of media innovations including the live broadcast of events, field reporting, live inter-active reporting between news anchors and field reporters, and a digital revolution in the collection, processing and distribution of news.


The second major shift taking place simultaneously was the wild and wacky decade of the 1960’s, as the post-World War II baby boomers became the dominant force.  Suddenly the youth of our nation faced crisis after crisis as they filled secondary and college educational institutions with their thirst for a new world.


The Baby Boomers, born in the shadow and deadly radioactive fallout of the only two atomic explosions ever used in war, which were dropped on Japan and ended World War II.  It would take a book to describe the impact the 1960’s had on this new generation and so far, none have done it justice.


“Within the span of a single decade the greatest revolution in world history took place…”

Within the span of a single decade the greatest revolution in world history took place as the Boomers faced civil rights bloodshed, demands for academic freedom, the threat of a Cold War, the added threat of biologic or chemical warfare, death in Viet Nam, death on college campus’s protesting the war, political assassinations, bloody peace protests, and so much more.


The entertainment industry also reached their Golden Age as Broadway, movies, and television all exploded before they would settle into bitter rivals in the battle for the hearts, souls and pocketbooks of the people.  How appropriate the end of the decade would result in Woodstock, a rock festival and anti-war protest drawing over 400,000 concert-goers to a muddy field in the other New York, meaning upstate from NYC.

“I call it the Second American Revolution.”

This amazing decade is what I call the Second American Revolution.  What emerged at the end of the decade showed little, if any, resemblance to what began the decade.  There was not an institution, idea, principle, or political policy that was not tested, tried and trampled over.


At this point I will offer you multiple choices of what caused such a venerable and respected institution like the news media to pretty much self-destruct in the ensuing decades until today.  Decide for yourself which were most responsible as the “Destroyers of the Truth” here in the American. News media.


Causes of the Collapse of the News Media

Cable News? Competition
Internet Technology
Changes in news media valuation from viewers to profits
Profit-driven companies bought news interests as investment
Astonishing increase in political spending for media
Courts rejecting campaign finance laws
Failure of government to regulate Internet
Proliferation of media advertising revenue
Blurring of the distinction between news and editorials
Apathy of a disenfranchised population
Reporters becoming advocates of causes and politics
A general public seemingly disinterested in the truth
Conflicts of interest between media and politics
No enforcement of News Media Code of Ethics
Lack of media accountability for sources and stories
Government abuse of classifying information




To sum it all up, greed, a lust for power, and exorbitant advertising revenue from politics and the private sector fueled the demise of the news media.  Once again, the pendulum has reversed itself and the credibility and believability of the news media by the public has gone off the cliff.


What was once intense competition between news groups has morphed into an insidious and ruthless effort to not only dismember and destroy those of opposing views, but to trample on the free rights of everyone but yourself.  Respect for our Constitutional rights to individual freedom, opportunity and free speech are spit upon by ego-centered, celebrity-driven news media.

“A new, more powerful special interest has cast a long dark shadow over our world.”

A new, more powerful special interest has cast a long dark shadow over our world, the digital answer to control.  Dominated by greed and the lust for power and fueled by an explosion of ad revenues from even more special interests, the news media of today, have no code of ethics.


When it comes to the Internet news providers and news aggregators, stories being pursued are no longer of broad interest but serve their own agenda.  Fake news is highly successful because, quite frankly, the reader is lost in the abyss of power and control.  People have willingly become pawns, because they have no backbone for the truth.


The news media embraces polarization, character assassination, and political agendas which are a violation of the Journalism Code of Ethics.  They are caught up in a tangle of special interests whose interest may be the enslavement of the general public to technology.  We are data-driven fools whose every thought, action, purchase, interest, and personal health and wealth are already under the microscope of Big Brother.


The Internet changed the dynamics.  The loss of integrity, absence of fairness, and failure of news groups to take responsibility for their stories or actions has undermined any hope for credibility in the news media.

“Social media news organizations and so-called news aggregators for the Internet services have become the new overlords of the news media…”

Social media news organizations and so-called news aggregators for the Internet services have become the new overlords of the news media, and the new censors for determining news media content.


I suspect somewhere along the line the institutions of higher learning who once defended the freedom and fairness of the news media decided corporate underwriting of the academic endowment funds was more important than telling the truth.  Or, perhaps they were just taking care of their university graduates in the private, “capitalism” sector.


In summary – the truth has been checkmated, the game is over.


Tuesday, July 03, 2018

What Happened to the News Media in America? Part 2 – The Golden Age of News – Destroyers of the Truth


Finally, I get to Part 2, the “Destroyers of the Truth.”  Turn your clock back to the 1970’s, the twilight of the Golden Age of news.  Events starting in the early 1960’s like the Cold War between the USA and Soviet Union, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, then Watergate shook the news business to the bone.



Instead of a fifteen-minute national news broadcast, they expanded to 30 minutes with additional “news” shows like 20/20 or Sixty minutes among others added to the line-up.  This and a demand for real time coverage of events like the Kennedy assassination in 1963, where network coverage pre-empted regular programming, changed the face of media forever.


Suddenly national and local news became a big deal which led to an explosion of media innovations including the live broadcast of events, field reporting, live inter-active reporting between news anchors and field reporters, and a digital revolution in the collection, processing and distribution of news.


The second major shift taking place simultaneously was the wild and wacky decade of the 1960’s, as the post-World War II baby boomers became the dominant force.  Suddenly the youth of our nation faced crisis after crisis as they filled secondary and college educational institutions with their thirst for a new world.


The Baby Boomers, born in the shadow and deadly radioactive fallout of the only two atomic explosions ever used in war, which were dropped on Japan and ended World War II.  It would take a book to describe the impact the 1960’s had on this new generation and so far, none have done it justice.


“Within the span of a single decade the greatest revolution in world history took place…”

Within the span of a single decade the greatest revolution in world history took place as the Boomers faced civil rights bloodshed, demands for academic freedom, the threat of a Cold War, the added threat of biologic or chemical warfare, death in Viet Nam, death on college campus’s protesting the war, political assassinations, bloody peace protests, and so much more.


The entertainment industry also reached their Golden Age as Broadway, movies, and television all exploded before they would settle into bitter rivals in the battle for the hearts, souls and pocketbooks of the people.  How appropriate the end of the decade would result in Woodstock, a rock festival and anti-war protest drawing over 400,000 concert-goers to a muddy field in the other New York, meaning upstate from NYC.

“I call it the Second American Revolution.”

This amazing decade is what I call the Second American Revolution.  What emerged at the end of the decade showed little, if any, resemblance to what began the decade.  There was not an institution, idea, principle, or political policy that was not tested, tried and trampled over.


At this point I will offer you multiple choices of what caused such a venerable and respected institution like the news media to pretty much self-destruct in the ensuing decades until today.  Decide for yourself which were most responsible as the “Destroyers of the Truth” here in the American. News media.


Causes of the Collapse of the News Media

Cable News? Competition
Internet Technology
Changes in news media valuation from viewers to profits
Profit-driven companies bought news interests as investment
Astonishing increase in political spending for media
Courts rejecting campaign finance laws
Failure of government to regulate Internet
Proliferation of media advertising revenue
Blurring of the distinction between news and editorials
Apathy of a disenfranchised population
Reporters becoming advocates of causes and politics
A general public seemingly disinterested in the truth
Conflicts of interest between media and politics
No enforcement of News Media Code of Ethics
Lack of media accountability for sources and stories
Government abuse of classifying information




To sum it all up, greed, a lust for power, and exorbitant advertising revenue from politics and the private sector fueled the demise of the news media.  Once again, the pendulum has reversed itself and the credibility and believability of the news media by the public has gone off the cliff.


What was once intense competition between news groups has morphed into an insidious and ruthless effort to not only dismember and destroy those of opposing views, but to trample on the free rights of everyone but yourself.  Respect for our Constitutional rights to individual freedom, opportunity and free speech are spit upon by ego-centered, celebrity-driven news media.

“A new, more powerful special interest has cast a long dark shadow over our world.”

A new, more powerful special interest has cast a long dark shadow over our world, the digital answer to control.  Dominated by greed and the lust for power and fueled by an explosion of ad revenues from even more special interests, the news media of today, have no code of ethics.


When it comes to the Internet news providers and news aggregators, stories being pursued are no longer of broad interest but serve their own agenda.  Fake news is highly successful because, quite frankly, the reader is lost in the abyss of power and control.  People have willingly become pawns, because they have no backbone for the truth.


The news media embraces polarization, character assassination, and political agendas which are a violation of the Journalism Code of Ethics.  They are caught up in a tangle of special interests whose interest may be the enslavement of the general public to technology.  We are data-driven fools whose every thought, action, purchase, interest, and personal health and wealth are already under the microscope of Big Brother.


The Internet changed the dynamics.  The loss of integrity, absence of fairness, and failure of news groups to take responsibility for their stories or actions has undermined any hope for credibility in the news media.

“Social media news organizations and so-called news aggregators for the Internet services have become the new overlords of the news media…”

Social media news organizations and so-called news aggregators for the Internet services have become the new overlords of the news media, and the new censors for determining news media content.


I suspect somewhere along the line the institutions of higher learning who once defended the freedom and fairness of the news media decided corporate underwriting of the academic endowment funds was more important than telling the truth.  Or, perhaps they were just taking care of their university graduates in the private, “capitalism” sector.


In summary – the truth has been checkmated, the game is over.


Wednesday, March 05, 2014

CPT Announces Revolutionary News Service - the CPT TWIT

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Now that Tweeter has conditioned our minds to summarize all knowledge, information, news and thoughts in the world into about 124 characters the world is now ready for the Coltons Point Times contribution to the evolution of journalism.

Today we introduce to you the CPT Twit - in which we have successfully diminished your need to absorb all those demanding 100+ Tweet characters.  This modern technology driven age needs to minimize to the sub-atomic level the amount of data you should be required to absorb.

Our Twits consist of no more than 0, yes that means ZERO, characters.  Instead we rely solely on your sensory capabilities, far under-utilized in this digital age, to transmit the latest breaking news to you.


What, might you ask, is a Twit?

Don't ask me, ask your online Dictionaries.  Okay, we will.

 










'twit

noun \ˈtwit\

: a stupid or foolish person

Full Definition

1. an act of twitting :  taunt

2. a silly annoying person :  fool

 
 

Urban Dictionary is written by you

twit

The kind of person that makes a retarded chimp look smart.


A moron with absolutely no sense.
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There you have it.  So the next article you read, Putin Memo to Obama, is our first use of this revolutionary advancement in journalism.  Please forward our Pulitzer to our offices as we have no time to make it to the awards ceremony.

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

The World is in Conflict - are You?

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Wow, you don't have to be Einstein to know something is dreadfully wrong with the world.  Turn on the television, pick up the newspaper or connect to your favorite app and you give up your brain, heart and soul to the dark side.
 
Today I'm writing about what you, the readers must think when you tune in to the news and tune out of the world.  For a long time and in a lot of different ways I have been a student of trying to determine how to make people think.
 
 
Most reporters tell you how to interpret the news they report.  Anyone who thinks they are unbiased reporters are as removed from reality as their stories.  When the reporter becomes a real person through the magic of television, look out!
 
Suddenly the ego kicks in and they must conclude that if millions of people follow them on television, isn't it their responsibility to help those followers improve their miserable lives?
 
So we get a kaleidoscope of fanatics preaching their patchwork version of right or wrong as if we had any intention of doing what they told us to do.  All 1000 channels of network and cable television are tools to melt your mind.
 
 
Along come bored defense contractors in need of a new boogie man since they are running out of places to start wars and still make an exorbitant profit.  They feed us the 21st century technology in the 20th century, the virtual world of the Internet and the billions of dollars to be made.
 
The consuming public is seduced immediately into the digital revolution because we now have at our fingertips all the information in the world, the ability to communicate throughout the world instantly, and someone else to develop all those wonderful Apps that have eliminated our need to be educated, creative, social, et al.
 
 
Apps?  Our new generation of teachers (data miners) started out by destroying the very foundation of a culture, the language.  They undermined the credibility of society by butchering the English language.  Apps?
 
There is something they forgot to tell us about the speed of the Internet.  It doesn't matter how fast the digital revolution can gather and process information when the recipient of the information is us humans, and we are still stuck in Granny gear when it comes to turbo-thinking.
 
 
Now that we have apps to do virtually all our thinking, we don't need to waste time thinking, or even need to know how to think.  We've got the Internet.  And we've got it through computers, PCs, laptops, cell phones, and a million other electronic devices all racing to meet your every need before you realize what you really might need.
 
What a great time to be alive.  We now have a jillion gigabytes of data available at our fingertip and no where to put it.  It won't fit in our brain, I mean nothing much has changed in our brain in about 55 million years.
 
What in the world are you going to do with all that heretofore unavailable information when you have no capacity in your mind for new material?  That might indicate one of the celestial design faults in the human body.
 
 
We were given the ability to accumulate a whole lot of information in a lifetime.  But we were given no ability to get rid of all the useless information we learned.  The mind seemed to keep things pretty much in balance for the first 54.9 million years.
 
But the 20th century AD seems to have shattered the ability of the mind to keep up with the information downloads.  Yet another world-changing result of the digital revolution beginning with the computer which spewed out the virtual universe which has now consumed every inhabitant of the Earth.
 
We fell into the black void of the virtual metaphysical world not realizing it was really a black hole and there would be no escape from it.
 
 
As for what to do with all the information we can no longer absorb into our brain, well the Virtual gods have an answer for that as well, they just keep it for you by storing it in the same virtual cloud where you got it from in the first place.
 
If you really thought about it, you are spending a fortune and giving up the ability to think for yourself in exchange for being part of the virtual cloud universe.  You should be pleased to know that you have just paid for what was free, all that stuff in the air.
 
If all knowledge exists in the form of undetectable electrical impulses available in our dimension to those aware enough of their gifts to tune in, and I have no reason to doubt the truth of such an assessment, then we always had the ability to tune in directly if we ever tired of being spoon-fed our information.
 
 
This reservoir of knowledge that some believe is the Akashic Records, [the universal knowledge of God!] seems to float all around our universe uninhibited by such obstacles as time, space or matter.  Perhaps they were referring to the electronic maze of quarks and quacks and all that subatomic physics stuff?
 
The simple truth is you have been stripped of your natural rights of self determination, free will and individual freedom.  Thanks to all the apps the Virtual Gods gave you, you didn't even notice the price you paid in return.
 
 
Did you ever wonder why virtual games never seem to be hacked or stopped by a denial-of-service attack?  Maybe they are a cover for the real hackers?
 
On the plus side of being a victim you can always feel better knowing most of your fellow man are victims as well.  Kind of like saying, "I'm not responsible for anything I do since I gave up my mind for the apps."
 
 
When it comes to the state of conflict in the world, rest assured the barrage of virtual bad news serves a purpose to the prince of darkness.  You empower and strengthen the power of negative emotions triggering all kinds of excuses for being depressed and popping a few more of those wonderful "feel good" pills my trustworthy doctor prescribed to help me make it through the day.
 
Of course then I will have to pop more of those doctor prescribed pills to bring me down from feeling good so I can sleep at night.  It is such a strain to just think about the pressure and tension I face every day from my apps that I also need a prescription from my wonderful doctor to keep my blood pressure from being out of control, and maybe another prescription to keep my blood thin so I don't get blood clots.
 
 
So who says we are not into preventative treatment.  You now take four prescriptions to keep you from feeling depressed.  How preventive is that!
 
Perhaps you never asked if you really needed the pills in the first place.
 
The lesson being this.  You contribute to the awful conflict the world is facing and most of you are actually empowering the conflict by getting caught up in the passion and prejudices of the TV commentator or virtual blogger you follow.
 
 
Before you tune in you should tune out and understand you can make an even far greater contribution to the empowerment of all things good like peace, good health and love.  If most of the world is trapped in the Virtual black cloud, then those few not caught in the clouds of illusion have a far better chance of being heard.
 
End the conflict by ending your addiction to apps and taking back your own life.  Why not try a Random Act of Kindness?
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