What's the end game of these right-wing legacy media? The median age of TV viewers is like 65. How do they expect to maintain any viewership once all the elderly people die off? The only thing people watch anymore are live sports and local news, and even those are showing signs of declining.

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Gigachad 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s not the company behind this. The federal government forced them to do this. All media is being taken over by the state.

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thehappypm 10 hours ago | parent [-]

“All media” is a huge stretch.. legacy hyper regulated media maybe

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nebula8804 9 hours ago | parent [-]

YouTube recently introduced an AI-driven policy that automatically places suspected under-18 accounts into Restricted Mode, which blocks access to political and news content. This happens because lots of people are sharing accounts with their kids and despite Youtubers attempts to change this there are large amount of viewers who actually dont subscribe to channels. This change has already caused independent creators to lose 25–33% of their views, since many users get flagged and no longer see political videos recommended. This has happened once before during the 2017–2018 "Adpocalypse": when all political channels lost ad revenue after advertisers pulled out due to seeing their content on a few extremist channels. The motivation now seems to be brand safety and political sensitivity, but the effect is the same: fewer viewers, less revenue, and potential long-term harm to independent media. Its the first step towards pushing out independent creators. Yeah there is substack and patreon but many avenues of independent media are in danger and this is a step in the wrong direction.

	▲	kelnos 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> places suspected under-18 accounts into Restricted Mode, which blocks access to political and news content Debates about the quality of this sort of content aside, wow, that's just what we need, a generation of new adults who have no idea what's going on...

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lksaar 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung

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mindslight 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Now that the legacy media has been used to install fascists by lulling old people into thinking they're voting for the same "conservative" American-power-structure Republican party they had been their whole lives (as opposed to the reality of radical revanchist reactionaries supported by our adversaries), it doesn't really matter. It has served its use.

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potato3732842 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>What's the end game of these right-wing legacy media?

Probably to wring a few bucks out as they circle the drain in the same fashion as every other old formerly prestigious brand name.

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wstrange 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well, you have Larry Ellison and Elon doing their best to corner social media - so I think the right wing has it's bases covered.

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techpineapple 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There was an article recently that basically said lots of moves on the right aren’t strategic they’re ideological. So yeah, I think the right really wants to control media, and isn’t worried about the inevitable backlash.

But I do keep thinking about the fact that the move to the right among young men, will probably pretty quickly reverse itself, if they keep going after media/video games/porn, etc.