Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Even the Legacy Media is Apologizing for its Covington Propaganda" video.

  1. In years past, they'd either be the only ones with a camera OR buy the footage from whoever had it, and then cherry-pick what they wanted the public to see. It's not that the alt media forced them to abandon fact-checking. It's that alt media kept proving they were full of shit. And yeah, they resorted to Fake News for click-bait purposes, thinking the click-bait online was their problem. It's not. It's an outmoded, cobbled-together system of media that held the virtual monopoly for decades being out-competed by better viewing experiences. I'll take 10 minutes of Styx or 2 hours of Joe Rogan ANY day. No commercials. Just open-ended conversations that are done when they're done, and not because they're obliged to take a break every 5 minutes to sell shit. It's not the click-bait. It's simply an inferior product under an inferior paradigm. The rush to publish or air un-vetted nonsense was a tactic they employed, in the wrong-headed belief that THAT is what is hurting their viewership numbers. In actuality, their numbers are on the way down because they suck, and there's nothing they can do about it, constrained as they are by all the commercials and a slavish adherence to SCHEDULE. Their marginalization is inevitable.
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  2. And as far as click bait goes, it, too, is running out of steam. After the umpteenth "This isn't at ALL to do with the click-bait headline!" people start getting more sophisticated. Start checking facts from multiple sources. Start keeping track of who's full of shit and who's not. Philosophically, I reckon I'm closer to "Next News Network," but they wore out their welcome with warmed-over and re-packaged news items with their own apocryphal headlines indicating they were saying something they weren't. Stretched my credulity 5 too many times, to where I know there's nothing really fresh, there. After 20 views of this or that channel, and getting warmed-over shit with an artificial text-to-voice narration, one stops clicking on that channel's offerings.
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  3. They've been giving 180-degree "coverage" for years. Even with the 5 camera angles that prove them wrong. This is the first crack in their façade. If you followed Antifa, BLM and BAMN the last few years, you know that what's put out by the legacy media bears little resemblance to the facts, and they just kept doubling down, suppressing opposing voices (and channels), without apology. Is this a watershed moment? Are cracks finally showing in the monolith?
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