How money will be made on the internet isn’t clear. Experiments will produce both successes and failures. For now, the ad network is a failure. Perhaps the “tv” network will be a failure, too. How the people of the future will prefer to participate in distant (or online) social relations has yet to be made clear.

At present it seems as if the only viable means for financial security is royalist or mendicant: either someone wealthy must fund sites from charity or partisanship or someone poor must beg for money. Producing content for sale doesn’t seem to work well on the internet. This will be a bleak future, in my opinion.

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And if you think the MSM is slanted to the left now (which it obviously is) it’s going to get far worse as their ad revenue shrinks and they concentrate on their base. The editors of Time and Newsweek have just publicly and forthrightedly admitted this, and so has by inference MSNBC–more or less. And while one part of me cheers the demise of “the enemy.” in some ways the old enemy was more of a friend than the newly modified “enemy.” What I am afraid we will be left with is an MSM that provides ONLY (statistically speaking) opinion/propaganda and yet still dominate the national conversation. In fact, this will make it even easier to hide reality from the public, as only healthy newspapers, broadcast stations could/can afford the legwork to produce basic “news,” never mind how they later tried to spin it. Now, if there is no original “news”/facts being ferreted out
on a daily basis, there is concomitantly no need to “spin” against reality. One simply creates one’s own reality. And with no facts, there is no reality to balance against the “all opinion, all the time” MSM megaphone–certainly the blogosphere lacks the financial resources to provide any consistent, across the board, effort at developing “hard” news.

So, in light of the above, IMO we are headed into a new, darker paradigm–a “dark age” if you will–in which the MSM will remain dominate, in a media universe almost universally devoid of “facts” and with the political blogosphere dominated by a Soros-backed left–leaving only a highly vulnerable talk radio–which, even if it survives Congressional/Administration efforts to kill it off, will still suffer from the same dearth of hard news. And if driven exclusively onto satellite radio “talk” radio will not only suffer a vast diminution of it’s audience, but still be subject to the same threats of regulation it does now from a power hungry leftist dominated Congress.

I ain’t wearin’ “shades” ’cause the future’s so bright.

I don’t think I’ve watched more than one or two PM videos since they started and I’m not sure I watched them all the way through.

Information will not have advertising. It will be paid for by those advocating a position. They may even pay for some content, e.g. the amateur caught video. The advocacy of the MSM for The Messiah in the last election was a sign of things to come. More and more the line between news and press releases will blur into nothing.

Blogging will remain as the antidote to the press release. But the source of information will be the press releases from the interested parties and not pseudo-news from crypto-objective news agencies. All bias all the time. It’s what we’ve really had since forever. We just didn’t know it. I wonder how many troubadours were just disinformation agents for the prince next door. Have larnyx. Will travel.

“I am told that web site banner advertising suffers, in a sense, from too much transparency. Media buyers know what they pay “per click through” and per dollar of directly attributable revenue, and therefore tend to value banner advertising according to these concrete metrics. Ironically, that puts internet banner advertising at a great disadvantage to print and broadcast advertising, the value of both of which are much more difficult to measure. Corporate budgeteers can measure a superficially accurate rate of return for internet banner ads but cannot for television, so if the former is too low they kill it before they ax the thing they cannot measure. There is an obvious problem with this thinking — the banner ads get no credit for “building the brand” through impressions, which is in principle one of their great benefits — but nobody ever said that corporate bean-counting cannot drive stupid thinking.”

A consumer-products CEO once said, “I know half of our advertising expenditure is wasted; problem is, I don’t know which half.”

$15 per month! Definitely not content I would pay for. I can always read their blogs if I want, of course. This venture will fail.