Agree with all of your points. The problem is the vast majority of the mainstream media is owned by right wing leaning people who have no issue with spinning outright lies that fit their agenda. In addition, there is no reaching the people who watch Fox News. They have bought into the cult and will believe anybody on Fox as opposed to anyone else. One would hope that broadcast stations like ABC, CBS and NBC would use your template but again, look at their ownership. The only way to overcome some of this is to convince the people who own these networks, newspapers and other media that they will lose money through declining viewership if they continued to allow lies to be presented without correction.
Thank you so very much for this article. We definitely agree . MS NOW is doing their job. The reporting has been outstanding. CBS the Golden globes was pretty awful. They were listing the winners like making book on a bet who would win. The news anchor, he was awful. He called an African American person who has written a book I have. My grand uncle came from, Germany 🇩🇪, in 1939, his family were escaping Hitler. This is the same year Poland, was attacked. They were part, Jewish. My cousin said their father always feared for his life. Again many thanks.
Thank you. This is all so true. One quibble: as people flee the mainstream media, and viewership and readership plummet, where are the profits in an already challenged sector?
We no longer watch any network news including CNN. We watch Colbert, Kimmel, Jon Stewart and Lawrence O'Donnell - plus I subscribe to several newsletters, yours being one of them. Keep up the excellent work.
All good recommendations that I wish were more widely adopted. But I continue to believe that, as with other such analyses, it ignores the REAL problem--the pervasive availability, viewership and readership of dishonest, unethical right-wing media, notably Pox News that is ever-present in public spaces and homes throughout red states. Given our right to freedom of the press, I don't know of any way to curtail this scourge. Every other mainstream and independent media outlet could follow all of Mark's recommendations and it won't significantly improve our public discourse and MAGA insanity as long as significant numbers of people willingly swallow the bilge shoved down their throats from right-wing media.
here's the real question: how much would it cost to establish an actual radically truthful news outlet? is there an alternative funding model to get such an outlet started? (is there a way to have that outlet be somehow bound to the radical transparency model so that it could be sued by said alternative funders if it diverts from said model?)
Actually it is good of you to call out CNN for as I read this I thought of how often they give a megaphone to one of the most grandiose liars not in the administration or on fox. He is their own paean to listening to both sides and presenting diverse views, Scott Jennings. Not only does he lie, distort, and suck up to the administration, he is a rude piece of feces, willing to interupt incessantly and a master of feigned facial expressions of surprise and incredulity. He is an unreliable reporter of facts. I'm amazed they bother, and CNN is scraping the bottom of the outhouse barrel when the put him on. It feels insulting to informed viewers and they could easily do better or not bother. (Anderson Cooper, can you hear us?)
Agree with all of your points. The problem is the vast majority of the mainstream media is owned by right wing leaning people who have no issue with spinning outright lies that fit their agenda. In addition, there is no reaching the people who watch Fox News. They have bought into the cult and will believe anybody on Fox as opposed to anyone else. One would hope that broadcast stations like ABC, CBS and NBC would use your template but again, look at their ownership. The only way to overcome some of this is to convince the people who own these networks, newspapers and other media that they will lose money through declining viewership if they continued to allow lies to be presented without correction.
Thank you so very much for this article. We definitely agree . MS NOW is doing their job. The reporting has been outstanding. CBS the Golden globes was pretty awful. They were listing the winners like making book on a bet who would win. The news anchor, he was awful. He called an African American person who has written a book I have. My grand uncle came from, Germany 🇩🇪, in 1939, his family were escaping Hitler. This is the same year Poland, was attacked. They were part, Jewish. My cousin said their father always feared for his life. Again many thanks.
Thank you. This is all so true. One quibble: as people flee the mainstream media, and viewership and readership plummet, where are the profits in an already challenged sector?
In the case of CBS it goes beyond profit to being an active outlet for the regime’s propaganda.
I sincerely hope that some "incredibly rich people" are reading this and will get in touch with you, Mark.
All one needs to know about the current administration can be learned by asking Noem's dog. Oh, wait...
We no longer watch any network news including CNN. We watch Colbert, Kimmel, Jon Stewart and Lawrence O'Donnell - plus I subscribe to several newsletters, yours being one of them. Keep up the excellent work.
Thank you.
All good recommendations that I wish were more widely adopted. But I continue to believe that, as with other such analyses, it ignores the REAL problem--the pervasive availability, viewership and readership of dishonest, unethical right-wing media, notably Pox News that is ever-present in public spaces and homes throughout red states. Given our right to freedom of the press, I don't know of any way to curtail this scourge. Every other mainstream and independent media outlet could follow all of Mark's recommendations and it won't significantly improve our public discourse and MAGA insanity as long as significant numbers of people willingly swallow the bilge shoved down their throats from right-wing media.
here's the real question: how much would it cost to establish an actual radically truthful news outlet? is there an alternative funding model to get such an outlet started? (is there a way to have that outlet be somehow bound to the radical transparency model so that it could be sued by said alternative funders if it diverts from said model?)
Actually it is good of you to call out CNN for as I read this I thought of how often they give a megaphone to one of the most grandiose liars not in the administration or on fox. He is their own paean to listening to both sides and presenting diverse views, Scott Jennings. Not only does he lie, distort, and suck up to the administration, he is a rude piece of feces, willing to interupt incessantly and a master of feigned facial expressions of surprise and incredulity. He is an unreliable reporter of facts. I'm amazed they bother, and CNN is scraping the bottom of the outhouse barrel when the put him on. It feels insulting to informed viewers and they could easily do better or not bother. (Anderson Cooper, can you hear us?)