Media in USA and major Western countries is in turmoil. Online outlets that used to be part of media scene for decades are closing down, following the sad fate of newspapers. Famous journalists and television anchors are being unceremoniously fired and what looked like bedrocks of media landscape is suddenly turned into distant and often unpleasant memories.
There are various explanations given for such trends. The most obvious deals with an effect of global economic crisis on world media. COVID-19 shocks, followed by rampant inflation and central banks’ heavy-handed attempts to reign it by causing major recessions were bound to hit even the seemingly insulated world of the Fifth Estate. There is less money to be taken from advertisers or subscribers and many media outlets simply can’t afford to spend large amounts of money on luxurious offices or hefty salaries. And even when they make the painful cuts, future still seems uncertain.
There are, of course, other, more sinister explanations in the form of governments and large corporations finding common agenda in preparing the public for increasingly likely global war before which any potentially dissenting voice must be silenced. Many such notions that used to be in the domain of conspiracies theories and lunatic fringe now look like something a reasonable person would accept as credible, if not for the fear of being cancelled or worse.
Yet, much of such processes can often have more banal explanations. Media institutions are, at the end of day, reflections of people that own them, with their own very personal ideological and other biases. One such example can be found in some proposed explanation for recent “parting of the ways” between Fox News and its most popular anchor Tucker Carlson. There used to be incredible pressure on Fox corporate leadership from the political establishment, but some of that leadership apparently didn’t like Carlson in the first place. Allegedly, needle that broke camel’s back came when Rupert Murdoch realised that Carlson was genuinely religious person, the very kind of people Murdoch allegedly despised.
Another example can be found in the world of the social media. Elon Musk, for all his talk about promoting free speech, gave clear signal that there were some forms of speech and individuals practising it he finds intolerable. He very publicly refused to allow Alex Jones to return to Twitter, citing his shameful conduct following Sandy Hook massacre, which he, as a father of numerous children, found distasteful. The more recent example was immediate suspension of Twitter account of a person designing the flag of pro-paedophilia movement.
In a world which is increasingly getting de-globalisded, and in which borders and boundaries being set between and within the countries, personal views and biases of the most powerful people instead of common sense interests are going to be increasingly important way for less powerful to predict policies and avoid trouble.
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