Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Joe Rogan | Chappelle's New Special Had 0% on Rotten Tomatoes" video.

  1. Critical reviews can save you a lot of time filtering out things you won't like and locating things you WILL like. You just have to find critics whose preferences align with your own. Rotten Tomatoes and other outlets clearly have their audience that likes what they say. It's not a very big audience. Apparently 1% of the users on Rotten Tomatoes, for example. What this Dave Chapelle story tells us is that 9% of the public is out of step with one outlet. So find another outlet. There're more of them out there than ever before in history, thanks to social media on the Internet. Legacy media have been in an inevitable decline for a couple decades, now. Their entire business model is wrong for the current era, and they're scrambling to secure a stable niche for themselves. It's just that people are controlled by their habits, and so the legacy media have a lot of inertia. For now and the next few years, people that grew up on commercial t.v. are still at the top, with more money than the generation after them, and we're still conditioned to watch that crap. Younger people, not so much. They can buy a game that entertains them, tirelessly, for hours, with zero commercial interruptions. They can binge a t.v. series on Netflix or Amazon. I'm binge-ing the Australian-produced "City Homicide," right now. I don't think many people watch any series premieres, any more. Why watch a series that ends in shit? And when you're in a mood for movie/series entertainment, part of making it more fun is being able to watch it for 2 hours straight, without commercials. Make the product fit YOUR preferences, in a sufficient amount to keep you going for days. Maybe your hour or two of t.v. each day that week is the first couple seasons of "Arrow," and you spend the rest of your time outside or reading books. And there's enough good historical content out there on video, that you can give yourself a pretty good liberal-arts education for free. You won't have a teacher grading your written work, but you can go to a brainiac channel and spout your nonsense, and they will tear you to shreds better than any teacher with a red pen. You can compare your writing to the better writers in the comments. You can learn like crazy on the Internet, and plainly a lot of people out there are doing just that.
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  2.  @dannyfirst6544  : Actually, it is. There's just such a ruckus, right now, because those who once dominated the entire public square are being reduced to just one more voice among many. They can't keep the independents from talkin'. They can't stop regular folks talkin' like regular folks to one another. If advertisers don't like dissent or cuss-words, that's their problem. You see, those fools work for us, they forgot that fact, and they're getting their comeuppance in lost revenues, audience and prestige. It's actually happening very quickly, if you take a step away from the 24-hour news cycle and compare to a year or two ago. These "assaults on free speech" are very strong, but their "victories" just mean their retreat is slowed, slightly. The trend is down for legacy media with legacy business and advertising models.
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