Political Cartoonists Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) discuss the week in politics, current events and culture. This time, the guys start out wondering about the state of the economy and the 2024 presidential campaign. Though Biden has pulled ahead of Trump in national polls, key swing states Biden needs to win continue to support Trump. One of the big reasons give is that they’re unhappy with the state of the economy. But unemployment is low, wages are high and inflation is easing. Why are Americans pissed? We have answers.
The month of January saw major layoffs at legacy media companies like the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated and Pitchfork. Is there a future for journalism, and if so what does it look like?
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An old friend who is now dead once told me something that I think sums up the answer to the question of why the legacy print media is in such terrible shape. As he said, sometime around 2017 or so: “It used to be FUN to read the paper.” Now? It’s mostly joyless. Why? Because so much of the skill and experience and wisdom is gone — starved out or drowned out by shrill imbeciles with short attention spans and heads filled with doctrine instead of learning.
Reading through these sites filled with bloated articles (gotta squeeze in as many garbitrage ads from Taboola and SmartBrain as possible), articles rendered puerile by unfunny quips and meaningless asides, articles that pay nothing or almost nothing to the writers. It’s excruciating. Legacy print media has morphed into legacy network news. Meanwhile, SocMed, the preferred platform for all the mean girls from high school, drives the, um, discourse. It is, as was once said of something else, like seeing your mother drunk.