Close Nit Community ??

[Roverlord off road spares]

Here's another "SPECIAL INVESTIGATION" Channel 9 and 7 seem to have them almost daily.

[cripesamighty]

The Lamestream media is ceasing to be of relevance as they haven’t kept up with technological advances. Online information choices are making them redundant and due to their bad choices, cannot seem to compete with them - especially for ad revenue. Compare popular YouTube channels with millions of views to legacy media outlets with thousands of views. To get eyes on TV sets and newspapers, they are resorting to more sensationalism with their reporting.

It is a downward spiral as good journalists leave the sinking ship and only hacks are left. Jordan Peterson amongst others have talked widely of this, especially after some of the hack jobs done to them by legacy media outlets who push their own narrative. The information landscape has changed out of sight in only the last 10-15 years.

[DiscoMick]

Yes, people set up to auto record the programs that interest them to watch later when they can flick through the ads.
Netflix has also stolen a lot of viewers because it is cheap and offers a lot.
The internet is absorbing television and people are watching on their laptops.
Plus online gives the control over when you watch so people are no longer hostage to fixed scheduling.
Online news with a 24 hour cycle is also replacing TV news.
Basically, technology is giving people more power to control what and when they watch.

[p38arover]

Don't forget "shocking" & "sparked"

Or "vibrant" community. That word should be expunged from the lexicon!

[Tombie]

Sadly modern reporting is about being first rather than being factual.

Nothing ****s me more than when a breaking story has no significant data behind it; yet they keep on regurgitating the same minimalist crap in an attempt to hold peoples attention.

Nowadays I barely bother with it at all, there is little that can be done to change outcomes and even less that impacts me, my family or friends.

I use the methodology -Sphere of Control, Sphere of influence... if it falls outside those, why worry about it.

[Zeros]

Close-knit communities are going the way of all growth capitalism driven aspects of our world. We can probably now replace the word community with economy. Social media is a community of a new kind that purports to be of the peopl, for the people, yet it’s clear that it’s controlled by a big business few. The Land Rover community is a rare online and real life success story IMO. Which is why I participate.

[Stuck]

What about when the "close knit community" is "struggling to come to terms with .........."

[DiscoMick]

Lazy cliches by the journo.

[trog]

All accepted by the end users and I guess by the advertisers of the commercial media outlets.

[DiscoMick]

Actually I think the comments in this thread show the punters are not fooled at all by lazy journos, which may be why so many are turning away from traditional broadcast media and going to online news.
Interestingly, this isn't new. For example, I'm reading Paul Ham's excellent history of Australian forces in the Vietnam War. In the media chapter he blasts the Aussie media for their superficial war coverage. Most were content to stay in Saigon and parrot the Army PR releases, which bore almost no resemblance to what our soldiers were actually experiencing in the field.
Ham says the soldiers scorned the Aussie media for ignoring the truth about how the war was being lost because the American strategy of bombing the villages into submission just alienated the villagers and made it easier for the Viet Cong to terrorise them into helping the guerrillas.
When the Aussies used a different strategy to separate the Viet Cong while protecting the villagers, the success in the Da Nang area was ignored by the Aussie media who instead focussed on the optimistic American body counts, which were grossly inflated. The media were shocked when the Viet Cong won the war because it contradicted the optimistic propaganda they had been recycling.
The public have become very sceptical about our leaders after numerous scandals have undermined faith in them.
Australian millennials' faith in politics and big business collapsing, poll finds

Australian millennials' faith in politics and big business collapsing, poll finds | Australia news | The Guardian