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Stephen Brady's avatar

There are folks on Bluesky trying to organize a boycott of Media, Social Media, and spending to hand Donnie Dipshit hugely low ratings and telling corporate America that caving to this dumpster fire is not going to help their profits. Read the posts, get involved, and disappear on Jan 20th.

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Marycat2021's avatar

That is useless. Newspapers and media companies no longer depend much on subscriptions for revenue. They have diversified.

https://empirediaries.com/2023/11/19/how-news-media-makes-money/

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Robert Eckert's avatar

They do depend on *views*: if those disappear, so do the ad revenues.

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arne link's avatar

I only read the writers I believe in. I cancelled all MSM months ago. I can't even watch Maddow and Lawrence any more because that supports MSM.

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Marycat2021's avatar

Not necessarily. The federal government pours money into the TV networks so that they don’t collapse no matter how few views they get.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Where do you get that idea??? There is a minor subsidy to PBS although it barely keeps that network alive. There is no subsidy to any of the others.

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Marycat2021's avatar

I read it. The US government spends millions on advertising every year.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

I have never seen an ad for the US government on any network. I am still puzzled about what you are referring to.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

The networks are not "PR companies": the writers of this piece do not seem to know what the public relations business is. I can recall occasionally seeing military recruitment ads on TV, but nothing else that looks like an ad for the government, and those ads are hardly on a large enough scale to make an impact on the bottom line.

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Teri's avatar

doncon will flip his dead ferret lid if inauguration TV viewing is low or nil, & crowd size is as miniscule. Major narcissistic injury. I read more DC Sens + Reps are not attending his inauguration 🔥🔥🔥

Am boycotting spending beginning Jan 20 by major stocking up now on as much as possible. Someone even bought a set of tires now to rob convict economy of $.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yup, the NYT gets by on puzzles, games, and recipe section, which so many among us still subscribe to, in spite of there being many free sites available.

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Lauralite's avatar

I've cancelled my WaPo subscription, but please don't ask me to give up the NYT crossword!!! There are limits to what a person can resist. 😁

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

And that is how they keep going. But we all have our guilty pleasures. Mine is Amazon.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Where is that on bluesky? I want to join them!

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Where? Do you have a site you can lead us too?

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