Sadly, I think there needs to be an equivalent voice to something like Fox News (which isn’t news but is opinion) - which is easy to find and not owned by billionaires who favour Trump. I don’t see why Bloomberg couldn’t be more active in voicing actual facts rather than outrage on a much wider scale, for instance. I don’t think we can b…
Sadly, I think there needs to be an equivalent voice to something like Fox News (which isn’t news but is opinion) - which is easy to find and not owned by billionaires who favour Trump. I don’t see why Bloomberg couldn’t be more active in voicing actual facts rather than outrage on a much wider scale, for instance. I don’t think we can build a news eco-system out of Substack (as much as I’d like to do that), that will reach into the 74+ million that voted for Trump. And probably a business-oriented place like Bloomberg isn’t going to do it either. But because there isn’t a “Democratic” (or in this case truthful) version of Fox News, we will lack any ability to get the full story out. If CNN, NYT, WaPo, LA Times and so forth report at least facts without context or opinion, that will help with what he is doing, but not the why nor the how it affects ordinary Americans. I know plenty of people that voted for Trump for reasons other than his “MAGA” cult - and they don’t watch MSNBC, or CNN. How can we manage creating that soundbox that we need?
I would love to see the Blue counter-programming, but I’m not sure that any mainstream media will gain legs ever again, in our fetishized, pocket-sized, social-media fed society. We only gather as a country to watch football. The 24-hour news cycle means nothing is must-see TV, and we don’t agree on anything regarding “news”. Substack is awash in factual, counter-FoxNews-narratives. And also independent sites such as Democracy Docket are also holding leaders to account. But until all of us the mass agitated can be heard speaking with one loud, alarmed and protesting voice, I’m afraid this feeling of silent suffering and losing sleep in a vacuum will continue to weigh more than half the country down.
Owning the public narrative is critical, and that's what libertarians have cunningly, successfully, and patiently worked at for 70+ years. The money and solidarity behind their movement are impossible to match, so perhaps people's lives must grow far worse before they will rise up. I would like to be hopeful for America and the world, but perhaps for now I can still have hope in courageous individuals. There are many.
Sadly, I think there needs to be an equivalent voice to something like Fox News (which isn’t news but is opinion) - which is easy to find and not owned by billionaires who favour Trump. I don’t see why Bloomberg couldn’t be more active in voicing actual facts rather than outrage on a much wider scale, for instance. I don’t think we can build a news eco-system out of Substack (as much as I’d like to do that), that will reach into the 74+ million that voted for Trump. And probably a business-oriented place like Bloomberg isn’t going to do it either. But because there isn’t a “Democratic” (or in this case truthful) version of Fox News, we will lack any ability to get the full story out. If CNN, NYT, WaPo, LA Times and so forth report at least facts without context or opinion, that will help with what he is doing, but not the why nor the how it affects ordinary Americans. I know plenty of people that voted for Trump for reasons other than his “MAGA” cult - and they don’t watch MSNBC, or CNN. How can we manage creating that soundbox that we need?
I would love to see the Blue counter-programming, but I’m not sure that any mainstream media will gain legs ever again, in our fetishized, pocket-sized, social-media fed society. We only gather as a country to watch football. The 24-hour news cycle means nothing is must-see TV, and we don’t agree on anything regarding “news”. Substack is awash in factual, counter-FoxNews-narratives. And also independent sites such as Democracy Docket are also holding leaders to account. But until all of us the mass agitated can be heard speaking with one loud, alarmed and protesting voice, I’m afraid this feeling of silent suffering and losing sleep in a vacuum will continue to weigh more than half the country down.
Owning the public narrative is critical, and that's what libertarians have cunningly, successfully, and patiently worked at for 70+ years. The money and solidarity behind their movement are impossible to match, so perhaps people's lives must grow far worse before they will rise up. I would like to be hopeful for America and the world, but perhaps for now I can still have hope in courageous individuals. There are many.