Corporate media's sugar daddies
PLUS: My conversation with Krystal, Kyle & Friends
Corporate media is collapsing because it has lost the trust of the American people at a time when the economic foundation of the business model has imploded — just like the backyard submersible that tried to day trip to the Titanic.
Poof.
The deep crisis in newsroom character, feckless editorial leadership, self-interested, access-driven coverage, estrangement from reality and a deep aloofness from ordinary Americans doesn’t help either, but the tides that have gripped the industry are existential.
If corporate media had a sugar daddy, what would his street name be?
Big pharma.
Legacy media shows are sustained by wall-to-wall advertising from big pharma. RFK, in threatening to end the advertising, would be a good, not a bad, thing. It’s something that should have never, ever happened.
Should RFK Jr. make it through the nomination process, and ends the ads, it will do for legacy media what the Eighth Air Force did for Germany between 1943-45.
No exaggeration. It will be the end.
Corporate media is deeply dependent on interests that do things that are harmful to the public good and public interest.
RFK Jr. is both spectacularly unfit to lead anything — and a public nutter of the highest caliber — but he couldn’t be more correct about “big sugar,” and the poisoning of the American population into a mush of obesity, diabetes and physical unfitness.
I don’t know if the first person in government who went after “big tobacco” couldn’t keep his hands off the nanny, cut the head of a whale, planted a dead bear in Central Park, or did any of the other insane things that Bobby Kennedy Jr. did, it doesn’t change the fact that cigarettes kill people — just like “big sugar” does.
The public lobbying efforts to defend “big sugar” and corporate media’s pharmaceutical sugar daddy are going to offer the American people a vivid PhD-level symposium on the corruption of Washington, DC, the power of money, and the ease with which what is terrible for you will be sold as something good for you.
Watch closely.
My conversation with Krystal, Kyle & Friends
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to talk to Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski. Hope you’ll take a listen!
Read Fareed Zakaria's obsequious opinion piece in the Washington Post where he lays it on thick for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. I commented "Marked as safe from retribution" and the moderators deleted it.
Pharma does so well on cable advertising because the only people watching are older adults. I’d be surprised if the corrupt GOP lets RFK, Jr cut off their cash flow. The GOP has demonstrated time & time again that their fealties are to their own wealth & power.