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• Journalism in search of a cute little monkey

  By Andrey Mir on November 20, 2020 • ( 12 )

  

  Having lost their traditional business to the internet, the news media are forced to sell ‘something else’. But selling something else, not content or ads, makes them sellers of something else, not the news media. A chapter from “Postjournalism and… Read More ›

• Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers on Podcast “Worker & Parasite”

  By Andrey Mir on November 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  On the podcast this week, Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers: The Media After Trump by Andrey Mir. Next time: Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann and Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid,… Read More ›

• Postjournalism: from the world-as-it-is to the world-as-it-should-be

  By Andrey Mir on November 11, 2020 • ( 24 )

  

  Advertising dominated the business of the news media, providing 70% of revenue and more. Ad revenue was so plentiful that it made media organizations the largest and richest corporations of the late capitalist period, on par with banks or oil… Read More ›

• Polarization studies are media studies

  By Andrey Mir on November 9, 2020 • ( 13 )

  

  Fake news is not the principal problem in the new media environment. The impact of fake news is already mitigated by the users’ growing immunity and also by the growing noise that diminishes the potency of fake news’ impact. A… Read More ›

• The New York Times: from “We are not American Idol” to “We are not resistance” (which is gone, too).

  By Andrey Mir on November 2, 2020 • ( 9 )

  

  The news validation within a certain value system is the only remaining function of news business that might have relative use-value for readers. The need for the business to survive forces the media to shift its operational emphasis from news… Read More ›

• Paul Levinson on the power of power and advertisers over media

  By Andrey Mir on November 1, 2020 • ( 8 )

  

  The US Senate vs. Twitter, or Violating the First Amendment vs. Violating the Spirit of the First Amendment. (A prominent media theorist and author of “Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium”, Paul Levinson from Fordham University in New… Read More ›

• Sourcing: news supply in the media. The switch from news to opinions and from bureaucrats to “experts”

  By Andrey Mir on October 26, 2020 • ( 9 )

  

  Herman and Chomsky thought that government and corporate bureaucracies subsidized the media by supplying news, as it was rather expensive to have correspondents everywhere. And they were right. But now it costs almost nothing to get evidence from wherever you… Read More ›

• Postjournalism: Discourse concentration

  By Andrey Mir on October 25, 2020 • ( 10 )

  

  The topics and discourses that do not support polarization will not circulate in the media for long or will be completely ignored. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). The polarization of stances requires the commonality of… Read More ›

• The Trump bump in the news media: commodifighting Trump

  By Andrey Mir on October 20, 2020 • ( 13 )

  

  The commercial motives behind the media coverage of Trump remain unrevealed to the public. Business stimuli for the media to cover Trump’s every move contributed to a media environment favorable to Trumpism. Meantime, the media themselves became more and more… Read More ›

• Media business: why subscription mutates into membership

  By Andrey Mir on October 16, 2020 • ( 11 )

  

  Increasingly, the product of journalism will be paid for not by those who consume it but by those who want it to be delivered to others. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). In the media markets… Read More ›