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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl
They don't want a "conservative" results system that churns out the same results as the AP, they already have the AP! They want voter fraud allegations and voter purges to reduce Democratic voters. Conservative media doesn't want to be an equal in quality but conservative instead of liberal, they're parasites on the mainstream media. That's why conservative donors fund them, because they're not trying to be the next New York Times, they're trying to make people not believe the NYT when it reports that conservative donor John Doe's company dumped some waste into the river.
Right. It's like the ultimate liberal folly to miss this. I wrote about it two days ago:
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Originally Posted by DVaut1
It's critical to remember right wing gonzo journalism like Milo, like Breitbart, like O'Keefe is functionally a semi bluff. Either the WaPo or Democrats or whoever their targets are get a black eye, or journalism writ large is debased. They're satisfied with either outcome: it's all liberal leftist muckracking fake news, or it's all bull**** fake news. Either way the people who cut checks to Project Vertias type projects (e.g., Donald ****ing Trump) can live with either outcome.
The intentionally low quality of right-wing journalism is a feature, not a bug. It's designed into the system. Sure, that it's low brow theatrics and has no standards besides partisan histrionics is partly because they're lazy, partly because the audience is dumb, but importantly because that's what it's supposed to be.
It's where the right-wing long con tactics come in so handy. These guys are pros. It's a pretty textbook business strategy that if you're competing with a firm and you know you can't win on quality to saturate the market with poor quality imitations and sully the product line in an attempt to confuse consumers. These guys knowingly churn out Sumsang and Aple type media products which are pretty transparent counterfeits and then let market confusion take care of the rest.
Last edited by DVaut1; 11-29-2017 at 03:04 PM.