As media layoffs grow, industry pleads for urgent relief

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  1. Spim

    Spim Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    the media should be doing fine. if they cant get ratings or clicks in this environment they have the wrong message that doesnt appeal to their viewers or readers.
     
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    Bad new that depresses people is supposed to sell the best. I've never seen such an abundant supply.
     
  3. Creasy Tvedt

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    Fox's ratings are booming, because they sell a product that's in high demand. Fox is bringing in revenue, and their employees will share in the wealth.
     
  4. BasicHumanUnit2

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    As long as there are fundamentally ignorant people to buy the Left Media's fear mongering, hatred and division, that propaganda will continue to persist.
    And there is no shortage of ignorance going around. Some on the Right, but owned by the Left.

    5 minutes with most any of them would reveal the stunning lack of knowledge and reliance on emotion. I even have family members who are as ignorant unfortunately.
     
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    So is that a yes? They didn't lay anyone off and they are all still filming in the studio?
     
  6. Creasy Tvedt

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    How the hell would I know? My point is that Fox News is getting huge ratings, and that equals revenue. It's economics 100 that a successful business is going to be able to retain employees better than an unsuccessful business- An unsuccessful business like the woke leftist media that was dying before the crisis even started.
     
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    So, how do you learn what happens at school board or city council meetings? You know, those people spending your tax money?
     
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    They're not spending my tax money.

    The paper covers, for the most part, St. Augustine. I actually live about eight miles outside St. Augustine, in the unincorporated town of Elkton. County taxes take care of things out here. But the paper in St. Augustine is the only one published in this county, and it's damn near worthless...
     
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    Providing a product people want is always better business than providing one you want them to want.
     
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    What you call criticism is when Trumps Lies are challenged

    If Trump wants a more favorable media ............... he should begin telling the truth !

    As for Trump being reelected .......... Trump had one Job .........

    Protect Americans which after 6 weeks of the Virus we're still waiting for Trump to do something

    The Virus is worst in the USA by Far .............. Trump Failed

    Deathsa.JPG



     
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    The media wants Trump to cower to them as previous POTUS have done in fear of what the media would do if they did not.

    Trump don’t play that. :)

    And this is America, not the rest of the world. The freedom we enjoy across political, societal and economic areas is always a risk. A worthy one.

    I’ll not willing give us freedom in reaction to base fear in a crisis. Are you?

    And you think you freaking out now, wait till the impact of this shutdown so many wanted truly hits. Will make the virus seem mild and short term in comparison.
     
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    Got it - you don't know the answer.
     
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    I know it's pointless to even attempt to go through this again, but how is the virus worse in the US than anywhere else? By what mathematics or metrics?

    The only number I see that would sort of indicate that is confirmed cases of infected, but all that probably indicates is that the US is doing a lot more testing.

    The surest number to trust is the number of dead, because it's easy to count corpses, and that number would indicate that America is handling the crisis amazingly well when the huge population of America is taken into account.

    America's population is far bigger than the countries it's being compared to in that chart , and yet our death rate is pretty similar, and mostly lower, than the other countries.

    And anybody who believes China's numbers is a complete and utter dupe, and I'd like to sell you some magic beans.
     
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    Indeed

    Was not long ago the screaming heads on here were saying the number of deaths would double each day. 2 million dead, 1 million dead, 450,000 dead....

    So many bad predictions based on fear.

    Glad to see NY is seeing a decrease in deaths. ICU admissions down as well in NY. That’s good stuff. :)

    https://www.cnn.com/
     
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    Don't know. Don't care.

    The reality is that Fox News is thriving financially while leftist media outlets are being economically destroyed.

    It's a simple reality that the employees of successful business are going to fare much better than those of a failing business.

    But you feel free to pretend otherwise.
     
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    Let them eat cake!
     
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    All your spin will not change ...... Trump's job was to protect Americans and the Facts showed he Failed

    where other countries Leaders did their job better than Trump did ..........

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    Please explain to me how that chart shows America/Trump failing. Our total number of deaths is lower than many countries that have a much smaller population.

    Please explain to me how you're seeing that as a failure. It just doesn't make sense.
     
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    What is the source for your chart.

    Is our data as accurate for reporting as say China or Iran?
     
  20. Rugglestx

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    Its not spin it’s fact.

    You being naive to the differences of countries, political systems, societies and economic systems and how that effects reactions is not my issues.

    Nothing is showing he failed, your just comparing apples to oranges and crying foul! A simpleton thing to do really.

    Time will not objectively support your view.
     
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    Let me help him...


    “cause Trump”
     
  22. Creasy Tvedt

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    If nothing is on the chart is showing Trump failed, then why did you present it along with this...
    This does not makes sense.

    I think your emotions are interfering with your ability to think logically.

    You presented a chart that show the exact opposite of the claims you're making.

    This is a not a rational thing.
     
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    Ah, now I get it.
     
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    Your chart especially if you look at others proves we’re doing quite well comparatively. China should be erased from any chart right now since their info is falsified. And The ONLY number that really matters is deaths per X. Of course we’re going to have the most new cases and totals. We’re huge compared to most countries. It’s about death percentages. We want lots of cases actually since that builds immunity and also brings the numbers to levels we can compare to seasonal flus. Do you understand math and statistics at all? I don’t think you do.
     
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    Newspapers provide information, they allow for marketing and advertising, etc. and they are a historical record of the community they serve...too bad you don't respect or understand their service...
     
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