I never can remember how to imbed YT videos.


I give you:

"I've Got Cash"

by the Brooklyn Funk Essentials.

https://twitter.com/KanekoaThe.../1730100419253444898

Glenn Greenwald says corporate journalists are losing their minds over @elonmusk calling out major corporations for stifling free speech because they are in bed with the very corporations they claim to scrutinize.

@ggreenwald explains that we are at a crossroads where journalism, once a watchdog of establishment power, is now shackled by corporate advertisers.

"What went wrong here is not what Elon Musk said. It's so revealing that so many journalists are aghast that anyone would dare tell Disney and major corporations to go f**k yourself when they're trying to limit, censor, and control the flow of political content.

If you aren't willing to say that to corporations who are trying to limit what you can say, don't bother calling yourself a journalist.

We need way more journalists willing to say, go f**k yourself to people who try and limit what they say.

The problem is, is that the people who are hired by these major media corporations, and who thrive in them and succeed in them are people who have the opposite instinct.

Their instinct is to assuage and serve and placate establishment power, not to defy it. Even though the purpose of journalism is to be adversarial to establishment power.

Once journalism started getting corporatized no longer owned by families dedicated to journalism or local communities but by major corporations that have all kinds of other interests besides their media division. And, what kind of attributes are awarded at major corporations?

People who avoid controversy who avoid conflict, who avoid displeasing and angering powerful people. That's the corporate ethos, and the corporatization of media meant that that kind of attribute was imported into journalism.

And that's why almost no one who works for large media corporations or the media corporations themselves has the courage to say this. They're shocked. They think it's a sign that he's unhinged when in reality, it's just a sign of how cowardly and craven they are."

The media is pulling out all the stops to cancel Musk. This morning on an NCAA football radio talk show, the commentator went on and on for 10 minutes about Musk and how unhinged he was. They usually do not stray from the topic of college football at all.

Just like we have to pull out our wallets and support those organizations fighting for our SECOND Amendment rights we MUST also support the most important FIRST Amendment fight right now by supporting Musk. If you have an X account Premium+ is only $16/month and Premium is only $8/mo. If you don't have an X account it is time to create one and pony up.

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Originally posted by Dzozer:
The media is pulling out all the stops to cancel Musk. This morning on an NCAA football radio talk show, the commentator went on and on for 10 minutes about Musk and how unhinged he was. They usually do not stray from the topic of college football at all.

You also can’t discount it’s a religion for some. Look at Robert DeNiro and what he has become. Read an article recently where he was getting this or that award for playing pretend, and whoever it was edited his 20 minute anti-Trump rant from his acceptance speech. Once Bobby sees that his tirade has been cut from his speech, he pulls out his phone and goes full steam ahead “Orange Man Bad”.

For some of these fucks being woke and virtue signaling is the pinnacle of who they are. Without it, they have no identity.

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Originally posted by CrashN:
Just like we have to pull out our wallets and support those organizations fighting for our SECOND Amendment rights we MUST also support the most important FIRST Amendment fight right now by supporting Musk. If you have an X account Premium+ is only $16/month and Premium is only $8/mo. If you don't have an X account it is time to create one and pony up.

Media companies income comes from the corporate advertising dollars, not from their viewers.

They're not selling the news to viewers, they're selling viewers eyeballs to the advertisers.
The news is just a way to obtain the product they sell. Their only obligation is to the corporations that pay them, and to think otherwise is naive.

Musk's approach is an interesting one and it will be interesting to see how this plays out. He seems to think if he gets enough viewers, they will have to come back to him even after he's told them to FO. The bottom line is what counts in the corporate world.

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Originally posted by DrDan:
I never can remember how to imbed YT videos.

I give you:

"I've Got Cash"

by the Brooklyn Funk Essentials.

Dude is a little crass but you know what ? He’s literally got FU money. He can say that and get away with it. The rest of us would get fired.

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Originally posted by jljones:
For some of these fucks being woke and virtue signaling is the pinnacle of who they are. Without it, they have no identity.

This is more significant and relevant than it seems. Just remember the wretched refuse that we all saw present in numbers dressed in their idiot antifa costumes at the seattle/portland or other assorted riots they got bussed to.

With the exception of the zaniest looking rich kids who are acting out, it's really all they got.

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Originally posted by ElToro:
Dude is a little crass but you know what ? He’s literally got FU money. He can say that and get away with it. The rest of us would get fired.

Being crass is the only thing those people understand.

Being nice gets you nowhere.

For your consideration:

Did Elon Musk's 'GFY' Tirade Accelerate Pivot In Advertising Strategy?

On Thursday we emphasized in a note titled [urlhttps://www.zerohedge.com/political/boycotting-elons-boycotters"Time To Boycott Elon's Boycotters"[/url] that when mega-corporations advertise on social media platforms or news websites, it's often less about traditional advertising and more about supporting, promoting, and financially backing specific ideologies and party lines that align with their interests.

As we noted, "It's why when Pfizer or Moderna spend tens of millions for advertising in the NYT, it is not so people are aware that Pfizer makes a covid booster shot - they know that from non-stop news coverage; it is to make sure that the NYT never questions the corporate party line. In other words, it is public relations in an advertising wrapper."

Elon Musk is purging these mega-corporations from advertising on X, intentionally or unintentionally.

His remarks on Wednesday at the DealBook Conference, where he bluntly told the audience that advertisers who attempt to "blackmail him" can "go fuck themselves."

Musk was referring to some of these advertisers: Disney, IBM, and Apple, which halted ad spending on the platform for the billionaire's 'antisemitic post.'

However, what is very interesting is that other social media channels, like Facebook and Instagram, have had way worse content on their feeds, but you don't see corporate media and activist groups trying to pressure advertisers on those platforms.

Out with the old...

To that end, Musk plans to attract small business advertising to plug the holes.

"Small and medium businesses are a very significant engine that we have definitely underplayed for a long time," X told the Financial Times.

X even said, "It [was] always part of the plan — now we will go even further with it."

Perhaps large corporate ad spend was always destined to evaporate. When Musk bought X, he fired 80% of the workforce and dismantled the FBI's communication channels with the platform that suppressed non-approved government stories, such as Covid lab theory and Hunter Biden laptop stories. The "one big club," as it were, does not like this.

X told FT that it has ramped up ties with advertisers, such as JumpCrew, to which it will outsource some ad sales to target small and medium-sized businesses.

A former X senior sales executive said Musk would have to soon make a difficult decision in either keeping an in-house ads team or moving to outsource sales and adopting an automated "self-service small business platform."

Meanwhile, X CEO Linda Yaccarino responded to the controversy:

Linda Yaccarino, X’s chief executive hired by Musk for her deep connections to the advertising world, was bombarded by calls from friends and associates last weekend during her daughter’s wedding, according to several people familiar with the matter. They urged her to quit to protect her reputation.

On Thursday evening, Yaccarino instead sent a company-wide email cheering on X’s stance on fighting “censorship” and stating that Musk had shared an “unmatched and completely unvarnished perspective” and vision for the future. -FT

"Our principles do not have a price tag, nor will they be compromised — ever," wrote Yaccarino. "And no matter how hard they try, we will not be distracted by sideline critics who don’t understand our mission."

X's switch in advertising strategy is necessary to mitigate corporate media and activist groups' 'blackmail" of ad spending for content that they do not like.

The 21st century front line.

Remember Elon smashing the truck window during a demonstration of how strong it was supposed to be?
Embarrassing moment in front of all the press... (It wasn't supposed to crack. Duh)


Elon posted this on X yesterday.

I think it is FUCKING HILARIOUS! And pretty smart as well at $55 per copy.

https://shop.tesla.com/product/cybertruck-omfg_decal

Conservative Treehouse is pessimistic. Sundance is often ahead of the curve at reading tea leaves.

https://theconservativetreehou...of-platform-evident/
FTA:

At dinner last night, I was questioned about Twitter and the recent remarks of Elon Musk. My opinion is somewhat out of variance with the mainstream considerations.

I believe the demise of Twitter was essentially determined long ago. Musk stepped into a scenario that was tenuous at best, and the government control of the platform was always the fulcrum issue. Musk’s prior intent with the platform may be up for debate; however, against his recent remarks, I would argue Musk is presenting the potential collapse of the platform as a martyr scenario...

I don't think the importance of the survival of X in the fight for the First Amendment can be overstated. And everything, including the fight for the Second, follows that.

X will not survive if the only source of revenue is advertising.

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I would argue Musk is presenting the potential collapse of the platform as a martyr scenario...

Melodramatic horse shit.

I love it when people who can't find logic in things they do not understand, form opinions which do nothing more than to try to give neat order to complex situations.

That's a fact.

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Meanwhile, X CEO Linda Yaccarino responded to the controversy:

Linda Yaccarino, X’s chief executive hired by Musk for her deep connections to the advertising world, was bombarded by calls from friends and associates last weekend during her daughter’s wedding, according to several people familiar with the matter. They urged her to quit to protect her reputation.

On Thursday evening, Yaccarino instead sent a company-wide email cheering on X’s stance on fighting “censorship” and stating that Musk had shared an “unmatched and completely unvarnished perspective” and vision for the future. -FT

"Our principles do not have a price tag, nor will they be compromised — ever," wrote Yaccarino. "And no matter how hard they try, we will not be distracted by sideline critics who don’t understand our mission."

X's switch in advertising strategy is necessary to mitigate corporate media and activist groups' 'blackmail" of ad spending for content that they do not like.

Wow, didn't see that coming. Perhaps Elon Musk made a better decision in hiring the CEO of X that many conservatives gave him credit for!