Oracle have laid off 30k employees today. They did it to personal email accounts at 6am 🫡 saying they needed the money to spend on GenAI instead. thenextweb.com/news/oracle-lay…
"I assure you that if 8 million right leaning protesters had turned out against Obama it the NYT would have given it banner treatment eg POPULIST REVOLT."
"For more than a decade, the Reuters Institute Digital News Report has documented fundamental shifts in how young people (defined in this report as those aged 18–24) interact with and think about news during a period of significant technological, media, and political transformation. As ‘social natives’, this demographic is moving away from traditional news media like television, print, and even news websites, gravitating instead towards a social-first and audiovisual-heavy media diet, where news is one type of content consumed among many.
While much has been said about the perceived lack of news engagement among younger people, our research also documents a greater sense of alienation among this segment of the public, some of whom find traditional news irrelevant, difficult to understand, or unfairly biased against their demographic. Mismatches between journalistic output and the expectations of young audiences highlight the need for newsrooms to examine both the question of how to reach young people where they are and, equally important, how to do so with
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"For more than a decade, the Reuters Institute Digital News Report has documented fundamental shifts in how young people (defined in this report as those aged 18–24) interact with and think about news during a period of significant technological, media, and political transformation. As ‘social natives’, this demographic is moving away from traditional news media like television, print, and even news websites, gravitating instead towards a social-first and audiovisual-heavy media diet, where news is one type of content consumed among many.
While much has been said about the perceived lack of news engagement among younger people, our research also documents a greater sense of alienation among this segment of the public, some of whom find traditional news irrelevant, difficult to understand, or unfairly biased against their demographic. Mismatches between journalistic output and the expectations of young audiences highlight the need for newsrooms to examine both the question of how to reach young people where they are and, equally important, how to do so with news they find relevant, engaging, and ultimately worth their attention. Meeting the needs of this segment is crucial, not just for the current stability of the journalism industry, but also for the future of democratic societies as young individuals transition through adulthood (Røsok-Dahl and Ihlebæk 2024).
In this report we bring together evidence from over a decade of Reuters Institute research to shed light on young audiences today. Understanding generational shifts is vital for the financial sustainability of the news industry, which depends on a pipeline of younger consumers who will keep coming back to news. It also matters for the democratic health of our societies, which requires individual citizens, including young people, to be informed and collectively share a basic understanding of the world."
Credulous repetition of the infantile fantasies of the wealthy. Not even Elon believes what he says, but the newspapers will repeat it anyway. He's an accelerationist. What the Indo don't say, and what he says between the lines, is that the future of abundance is only for the wealthy few, with everyone else gone #media
"Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis. But journalists are still letting him write the headlines."
As Dan Froomkin says, this is exactly analogous to how the press behaved when Trump careened from lie to lie and bogus solution to bogus solution during the Covid crisis of his first term.
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Media coverage of net zero is more than twice as likely to be negative than public attitudes and is driving a false perception that net zero policies are unpopular with voters, according to an analysis that identifies rightwing media narratives as fuelling a false backlash against climate action.
GB News is the propaganda arm of Reform UK Ltd, giving the Fascist Frog & his colleagues a free run through or around media guidelines & restrictions on politically biased broadcasting.
The UK Govt. has the means to do something about this via OfCom but does not... leaving us to draw our own conclusions about the manner in which Reform is being allowed to reshape the UK's political landscape.
Earth is still getting warmer, and #climate -related disasters continue, but since 2021, global #media coverage of #ClimateChange has dropped 38 percent.
Seriously, another thing that has to stop right now is "Oooh, this is looking bad for Trump!" headlines.
Literally everything we know about him looks bad for even the idea of him in any kind of trusted position & this was true long before he ever ran for office.
You might notice that he's president just the same.
Yes, some of it grates on his fragile ego but again, how has that helped anything improve in any way so far?
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social How is there any kind of pressure on Trump? Is anyone forcing, or even gently urging him to do anything? Does he care? Does it incur any kind of cost to him - or even a reduction in the bribes he solicits through the MAGA …
There are a lot of reasons for the downfall of the #USA but a big one is the purchase of traditional #media by plutocrat goons
Look at this fucking shit:
EDIT: some people are angry that i am potentially misleading because this isn't a recent headline. i am trying to make a point about the decay of traditional media and our current state of things. but yes, this is is from 2014, after #bezos bought WaPo. my point still stands, and you should follow my account for commentary, not breaking news
