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Role of the Media

Not sure where this belongs, but Washington Post has done some research on Hunter Biden's laptop. It appears he was engaged in trading on his Dad's name for some Chinese oil as well. Hunter just comes off as a pretty messed up dude who did some messed up stuff. Our country is better if he is fully investigated and possibly prosecuted. Just the same as Trump's kids should have been. Joe needs to go hands off here.
 
i think while it's likely there was some shady ass hunter deals the WaPo also says that there is no real clear chain of ownership of the laptop and lots of things were added/edited long after hunter took it to the repair shop. who knows what can actually be verified.
 
The fact that the laptop hasn't been given to an independent digital forensics team for verification says all we need to know about the authenticity.
 
MichDeac25 said:
Not sure where this belongs, but Washington Post has done some research on Hunter Biden's laptop. It appears he was engaged in trading on his Dad's name for some Chinese oil as well. Hunter just comes off as a pretty messed up dude who did some messed up stuff. Our country is better if he is fully investigated and possibly prosecuted. Just the same as Trump's kids should have been. Joe needs to go hands off here.
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Key difference-Joe did not elevate Hunter with his presidency the way Trump elevated his kids.
 
So yeah, it definitely appears some of the stuff was just made up and created after the fact, i.e. a "BigGuy" file created right before the NYPost article in 2020.

However, WaPo and its expert verified the following:

In particular, there are verified emails illuminating a deal Hunter Biden developed with a fast-growing Chinese energy conglomerate, CEFC China Energy, for which he was paid nearly $5 million, and other business relationships. Those business dealings are the subject of a separate Washington Post story published at the same time as this one on the forensic examinations of the drive.

The drive also includes some verified emails from Hunter Biden’s work with Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company for which he was a board member. President Donald Trump’s efforts to tie Joe Biden to the removal of a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma led to Trump’s first impeachment trial, which ended in acquittal in February 2020.
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The laptop is in the hands of the FBI and the Justice Department is investigating Hunter.
 
Yes, because red state Trump voters haven't been given enough publicity, or had endless articles written interviewing them and asking about their views on pretty much everything.

 
There's a lot in that tweet.

First, it reads as if the Washington Post doesn't have any reporters based in Texas.

Second, "enterprising reporter" reads like they want someone young and cheap who they want to be creative around the high mileage costs of traveling around Texas.

Third, they seem to think they have a blind spot with conservatives yet they spend plenty of time covering conservative politics.
 
it's probably the result of Consultant Brain that CNN execs were convinced this would work. It just seemed like the dumbest thing from the outset. And then the ads came out with Anthony Bourdain as the centerpiece and it's like great, you're basing your streaming platform on a guy who cannot create more content.
 
I was curious about the documentaries and paid for a month at $3. Never actually watched it though.
 
BarcaDeac said:
it's probably the result of Consultant Brain that CNN execs were convinced this would work. It just seemed like the dumbest thing from the outset. And then the ads came out with Anthony Bourdain as the centerpiece and it's like great, you're basing your streaming platform on a guy who cannot create more content.
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An egregious overestimation of the desire for the type of content they seemed to want to put on the platform. While there certainly is a place for much of it, why they couldn't shoehorn a lot of it onto CNN proper and not have 8 hours of overlapping/superfluous programming is baffling.
 
BarcaDeac said:
it's probably the result of Consultant Brain that CNN execs were convinced this would work. It just seemed like the dumbest thing from the outset. And then the ads came out with Anthony Bourdain as the centerpiece and it's like great, you're basing your streaming platform on a guy who cannot create more content.
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Exactly. 24/7 is more than enough news for reasonable people. CNN isn’t an entertainment network like Fox News. Great point about the Bourdain ads. This is one of ideas that is so obviously bad ideas that you know the higher ups ignored a lot of data to push it through probably due to FOMO.

Hosting a streaming platform seems like major hassle anyway. They always need new content and new subscribers. And if the rate of either drops, investors bail. It’s a weird money pit.
 
As if the 24h news cycle is not constant repetition of thr same stories. Only so much news content you can create unless you are making shit up to own the libs.
 
PhDeac said:
Exactly. 24/7 is more than enough news for reasonable people. CNN isn’t an entertainment network like Fox News. Great point about the Bourdain ads. This is one of ideas that is so obviously bad ideas that you know the higher ups ignored a lot of data to push it through probably due to FOMO.

Hosting a streaming platform seems like major hassle anyway. They always need new content and new subscribers. And if the rate of either drops, investors bail. It’s a weird money pit.
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I recall there some speculation about the viability of Disney+ as in ok it just has the old movies and such you can only watch so often. But clearly they've had a lot of zeitgeisty shows keeping it fresh, not to mention the Pixar movies and such.
 
Yeah. Disney+ had one of the strongest backlogs you could imagine by opening up the famed "Disney vault" and with Pixar and the MCU. Yet they still had to buy National Geographic, Fox, and other entities to get enough content. They added The Simpsons which basically anchored FX and FXX for a few years. On top of that, they produce new Marvel or Star Wars content almost every week, debut Pixar films that would ordinarily be in theaters, and produce dozens of documentaries, new kids shows, live action films, etc. They had a strong debut which blew projections out of the water. Disney+ kept the company afloat when the parks were closed, theaters were closed, and ESPN couldn't show or report live sports. Yet when subscriptions slowed down, investors were unhappy even though they were well ahead of original projections that didn't even have them competing with Netflix for several years.

So much of our economy is feeding greed. And if greed isn't satiated, the money moves on.
 
The NY Times has just hired a new executive editor, and if this article about him is correct it looks as if his goal is to try and win more Times readers "away from the coasts" and move into America's "heartland" - all of which are just code words for becoming more conservative. Looks like the Times may not be a part of the dreaded "mainstream liberal media" much longer (if it was ever really all that liberal beyond its editorial page).

Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-22/new-top-editor-at-the-n-y-times-sees-growth-beyond-the-coasts
 
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