Media: Reporters think highly of themselves
Reporters need to listen more and stop telling other what to think. They need to understand why reporters are not trusted and often despised.
Reporters need to listen more and stop telling other what to think. They need to understand why reporters are not trusted and often despised.
The media meltdown continues. But they are not listening – instead, telling us how wonderful they are. The business models and collective attitude of media is out of touch.
“We do not allow content that contradicts the authoritative scientific consenses on the causes, impacts and solutions to climate change”. You will no longer be permitted to discuss actual proposals such as banning all pets and dogs, banning all meat consumption, or banning all personally owned vehicle travel, or banning all air travel from 2030 to 2050. Those are actual proposals. But Google will de facto ban discussion or questioning of these topics.
His Population Bomb book was published in 1968. By 1972, the US fertility rate fell below replacement level. His nonsense predictions of the future – all of which were wrong – drove public policy for 50 years. Now 91, he refuses to acknowledge the errors and continues to promote his doomerism message, even though the domestic and international fertility rates have crashed and will soon have a negative growth rate.
Traditional media is dead and dying, as it should. There are new models but many in the biz refuse to accept reality.