Too much content?: Vice files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, sale
Is there too much content today? Probably. Multiple content creators have been doing mass layoffs, shutting down divisions, and filing bankruptcy.
Media: BBC Chair resigns after assisting PM obtain a loan
The media never has biases of any type: Richard Sharp was appointed chairman of the BBC by Boris Johnson after he introduced the then-prime minister to a business executive who guaranteed a loan for him. Source: Richard Sharp resigns as BBC chair over Boris Johnson loan report – The Washington Post
When newspapers provide free advertising for their own reporting staff
The Oregonian runs a top of the page web site “report” about an author – who happens to have previously worked for the paper – coming to a local bookstore to discuss her new book. There is no new “news” in this report – it is a prominent free ad for the author and her new book. Literally, a free ad for someone that once worked for the paper.
Publisher of Roald Dahl is replacing already purchased ebooks with new edited versions
Disturbing and Orwellian: Owners of Roald Dahl ebooks are having their libraries automatically updated with the new censored versions containing hundreds of changes to language Source: Roald Dahl ebooks ‘force censored versions on readers’ despite backlash What this means – you’ve previously purchased an e-book edition of a Roald Dahl book and have it on your e-reader. The publisher is now remotely altering that copy on your e-reader to replace it with a new, sanitized version that is not what…
Advertising: Netflix plans to put EVs in their shows and movies, as advertising for EVs
This is known as public relations propaganda: Working with General Motors, Netflix will put EVs into as many of its movies and shows as it can. There’s a Super Bowl ad to prove it. Source: Netflix Wants to Make Electric Cars Its Next Big Stars – CNET Netflix is doing this for free.