sharke
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 13933
- Joined: 2012/08/03 00:13:00
- Location: NYC
- Status: offline
I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
I much prefer to get all my news off crackpot websites these days. Much more fun.
JamesWindows 10, Sonar SPlat (64-bit), Intel i7-4930K, 32GB RAM, RME Babyface, AKAI MPK Mini, Roland A-800 Pro, Focusrite VRM Box, Komplete 10 Ultimate, 2012 American Telecaster!
|
Rain
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 9736
- Joined: 2003/11/07 05:10:12
- Location: Las Vegas
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 00:30:16
(permalink)
Remember back in the 90's - we had war in the middle east, the Rodney King riots, some Muslims accused Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses of blasphemy and mocking their faith and declared fatwa, killing a number of translators and innocent people though Rushdie himself always managed to escape... How things change, uh? I learned a lot more about those issues by studying books than I ever did watching and reading the so-called News - and the News themselves have only got more outrageously stupid since. A gimmick.
post edited by Rain - 2016/02/27 00:47:04
TCB - Tea, Cats, Books...
|
jamesg1213
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 21760
- Joined: 2006/04/18 14:42:48
- Location: SW Scotland
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 02:05:16
(permalink)
I just ask the window cleaner, he knows everything....
Jyemz Thrombold's Patented Brisk Weather Pantaloonettes with Inclementometer
|
sharke
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 13933
- Joined: 2012/08/03 00:13:00
- Location: NYC
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 03:22:35
(permalink)
It's weird though, just a few years ago I bought the New York Post and the Daily News every day, sometimes the New York Times as well, and really enjoy reading them from cover to cover with my morning coffee and bagel. These days you couldn't even give me a copy for free. I would just look upon it as trash to recycle. All that paper! I'll take one of those free newspapers from the street if I have to pick up a dog poop and I don't have any bags on me. The Village Voice is good for that, nice and thick.
JamesWindows 10, Sonar SPlat (64-bit), Intel i7-4930K, 32GB RAM, RME Babyface, AKAI MPK Mini, Roland A-800 Pro, Focusrite VRM Box, Komplete 10 Ultimate, 2012 American Telecaster!
|
craigb
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 41704
- Joined: 2009/01/28 23:13:04
- Location: The Pacific Northwestshire
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 05:58:50
(permalink)
☄ Helpfulby Rain 2016/02/27 17:16:17
I just saw this (no idea of its validity so...), but in 1982 there were 48 news corporations. In 2014, there were only six. That would go a long way into showing how the news is crap now.
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
|
jamesg1213
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 21760
- Joined: 2006/04/18 14:42:48
- Location: SW Scotland
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 07:10:59
(permalink)
Newspapers are disappearing very gradually over here. 'The Independent' just stopped production and has gone online only.
Jyemz Thrombold's Patented Brisk Weather Pantaloonettes with Inclementometer
|
kennywtelejazz
Max Output Level: -3.5 dBFS
- Total Posts : 7151
- Joined: 2005/10/22 06:27:02
- Location: The Planet Tele..X..
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 09:52:31
(permalink)
☄ Helpfulby sharke 2016/02/27 11:43:49
I stopped buying newspapers when I was able to afford toilet paper .
Kenny
|
bapu
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 86000
- Joined: 2006/11/25 21:23:28
- Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 09:57:44
(permalink)
jamesg1213
Newspapers are disappearing very gradually over here. 'The Independent' just stopped production and has gone online only.
So the "independent' just joined the internet (crowd)?
|
bapu
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 86000
- Joined: 2006/11/25 21:23:28
- Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 09:58:29
(permalink)
sharke
It's weird though, just a few years ago I bought the New York Post and the Daily News every day,
So sharke, which is it five years a few years? I R cornfused.
|
codamedia
Max Output Level: -67 dBFS
- Total Posts : 1185
- Joined: 2005/01/24 09:58:10
- Location: Winnipeg Canada
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 10:03:36
(permalink)
craigb
I just saw this (no idea of its validity so...), but in 1982 there were 48 news corporations. In 2014, there were only six. That would go a long way into showing how the news is crap now.
Unfortunately most media outlets (newspapers, magazines, TV Stations) are owned by just a few major company's. The problem with this is that there is no balance to the agendas. Instead of 48 opinions we now have 6.... News can be slanted any direction that suits them best. Add to this the fact that news is now "entertainment" instead of - well - how about - "NEWS"! News is suppose to be "what happened".... Now to compound this problem, people are leaning more and more toward news outlets on the internet (bloggers, conspiracy sites, fake news sites, etc...) that have ZERO credibility and run with that info as truth. As much as I despise CNN, BBC, CBC, etc... the radicals on the internet that don't know what "fact checking" is (or worse, don't care) are even more dangerous to society. IMO of course.
post edited by codamedia - 2016/02/27 10:26:22
Don't fix it in the mix ... Fix it in the take!
Desktop: Win 7 Pro 64 Bit , ASUS MB w/Intel Chipset, INTEL Q9300 Quad Core, 2.5 GHz, 8 GB RAM, ATI 5450 Video Laptop: Windows 7 Pro, i5, 8 Gig Ram Hardware: Presonus FP10 (Firepod), FaderPort, M-Audio Axiom 49, Mackie 1202 VLZ, POD X3 Live, Variax 600, etc... etc...
|
Moshkito
Max Output Level: -37.5 dBFS
- Total Posts : 3765
- Joined: 2015/01/26 13:29:07
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 10:12:29
(permalink)
Hi, I get the USA Today a few days per week, and mostly it is for Sports and Scores ... even though the Internet is faster for these, sites like ESPN are just pure crap and badly designed and have way too many broken links ... and some stuff does not show up on various browsers ... In general, news for me, has been ... a bit of browsing ... cnn.com and then msn.com, and then a perusal through news.google.com and/or news.yahoo.com The only bummer is that Yahoo, used to list cartoons, and they took those out ... I guess that's 100 less artists to pay altogether, and who cares, and they will probably state that the cartoon pages only get 5 hits a day! Typical big conglomerate BS ... rosebud! Rosebud! Rosebud! I think that America and the news media are finally onto the big game of many places ... including fascist and dictatorships ... say nothing and report nothing, and make sure everyone's attention is on some knockers out there! How thrilling for your imagination!
post edited by Moshkito - 2016/02/27 10:27:41
Music is not about notes and chords! My poem is not about the computer or monitor or letters! It's about how I was able to translate it from my insides!
|
sharke
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 13933
- Joined: 2012/08/03 00:13:00
- Location: NYC
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 11:29:42
(permalink)
bapu
sharke
It's weird though, just a few years ago I bought the New York Post and the Daily News every day,
So sharke, which is it five years a few years?
I R cornfused.
A fewve years, yes.
JamesWindows 10, Sonar SPlat (64-bit), Intel i7-4930K, 32GB RAM, RME Babyface, AKAI MPK Mini, Roland A-800 Pro, Focusrite VRM Box, Komplete 10 Ultimate, 2012 American Telecaster!
|
eph221
Max Output Level: -28.5 dBFS
- Total Posts : 4665
- Joined: 2014/12/22 05:06:50
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 12:01:20
(permalink)
The apotheosis of the information age, and its ubiquity has polarized the populace. Everyone's in their own little simulacra/bubble. I think there will be changes coming though once people realize they're not the final authority on everything--that's just a temporary thing. At some point we have to realize that we need eachother (community) to survive. We're hard wired to be social. We also need to realize that we need authority (newspapers/dictionaries/news companies) and that information is always in formation. We don't know what we don't know (rumsfeld, sic) but we seem to be so arrogant that we think we're the final authority on things. We have control over how we react, but we often *believe* we have more power than we do. E. pluribus unum. One among many.
|
tom1
Max Output Level: -79 dBFS
- Total Posts : 559
- Joined: 2008/03/23 16:40:52
- Status: offline
Re: I haven't bought a newspaper in 5 years
2016/02/27 12:38:10
(permalink)
I much prefer to get all my news off crackpot websites these days. Much more fun.
and probably a little closer to what's really going on
Sonar Producer X2/ProTools/Cubase/Reaper Studio Cat 32 Gig Ram East West: Hollywood Strings/Brass/Woodwinds/Goliath Kontakt Ultimate / FabFilter Bundle / EaReverb / Maag4 / Izotope Ozone 5 / Izotope RX2 / Elastique / Waves
|