{"id":13397,"date":"2023-03-17T18:42:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=13397"},"modified":"2023-03-29T03:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T03:51:41","slug":"no-they-are-not-are-newspapers-as-relevant-as-they-think-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/03\/17\/no-they-are-not-are-newspapers-as-relevant-as-they-think-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"No they are not: Are newspapers as relevant as they think they are?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The author of this item notes that the newspaper industry views itself as heroic saviors, identifying and publicizing everything that is wrong with the world and holding local government accountable.<\/p>\n

Except that may never have been true and is definitely not true today, noting how the news industry missed major and critically important stories, often hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n

The newspaper industry is dying from irrelevance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Newsless papers – Don Surber<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The author (a self-described MAGA head so there’s a caution) notes that the news media completely missed the SVB impending collapse – a collapse that a former venture fund manager had been detailing on his personal Twitter account since mid-January. In other words, hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n

Locally, our city council just announced it will likely raise parking fees at the local airport from $15 to $24 per day; there is no bus service to the airport. There are no economy or long-term parking options, as in almost all other airports. The rate was just $10 in 2019.<\/p>\n

To support this, the Council had a chart showing alleged parking rates at other airports in the PNW and claimed the $15\/hour charge was less than almost all of them. Except that was a lie. Most airports have economy options between $7 and $12\/day. But for the chart creator, all of the lower cost options were omitted.<\/p>\n

The $24 value was picked simply because that is the peak price charged at PDX in a close-in, covered parking garage. PDX also has economy, long-term and third-party parking options that are much less.<\/p>\n

Not one council member bothered to verify this chart. No one in the local media verified this chart. But numerous members of the public spotted this obvious malfeasance.<\/strong><\/em> Where was the much-vaunted press that is looking out for us?<\/p>\n

Just one local TV station mentioned the proposal. The local newspaper did not cover the story at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newspapers view themselves as heroes holding government accountable and being the voice of the unseen victims of the world. Except, in reality, they are missing most of the stories – including big ones like the SVB bank collapse which was hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}