Posts tagged News Media

The Decline of the Dictatorship of the Commentariat: On the Free Speech Editorial

With the caveat that there has been some well-done push back, this is a major newspaper of record picking a side in our dumbest culture war. I maintain that culture wars are stupid, and that cancel culture isn’t really a thing, but the fact remains that cultural phenomena are given life by discussing them. I’m afraid that, to tell you how dumb it is, I’m forced to feed the beast.

CommentaryCameron SummersMarch 23, 2022News Media, Cancel Culture, Moral Panics, Free SpeechComment

The Media Has No Message (Time of Monsters, Part 1)

The “media”, if it wants anything, wants as much of your attention as it can effectively extract for the lowest investment possible. More than any conspiracy theory about bad actors, more than any lie about modifying people’s behavior, more than anything else, this should be recognized as the root of the problem.

Written by: Cameron, Commentary, Time of MonstersCameron SummersJune 24, 2020Current Events, News Media, ProPublica, Bellingcat, Antonio Gramsci, Grant Morrison, LocalComment