{"id":6267,"date":"2018-07-05T21:35:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T21:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2024-11-07T18:28:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T18:28:51","slug":"journalism-executive-creates-online-news-service-as-click-bait-propaganda-outlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/07\/05\/journalism-executive-creates-online-news-service-as-click-bait-propaganda-outlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism executive creates online news service as click-bait propaganda outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>NowThis News claims to be in the journalism business, but don\u2019t be fooled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This click-bait venture, which was <strong>founded in 2015 by Huffington Post co-founder Kenneth Lerer,<\/strong> is your basic, run-of-the-mill propaganda outfit. Its real goal is the spread of political agitprop. The twist here is that NowThis disguises itself as a genuine newsroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> In reality, this site has less in common with the Wall Street Journal, which does actual journalism, than it does with the low-level Resistance grift, <strong>which relies on social media to distribute viral, hyper-partisan content to eager left-leaning audiences. In fact, the only real difference between the Resistance grifters and NowThis is that the latter is a full-blown organization, as opposed to a single crank with a Twitter account.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/nowthis-news-is-not-news-its-a-straight-up-propaganda-outlet\">NowThis News is not news; it&#8217;s a straight-up propaganda outlet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This is a division of Group Nine, which is targeting young people using mobile devices. They hook their targets with click bait, share-able news reports, which as the link notes, are laced with propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Started by the co-founder of the Huffington Post, the service aims to leverage a combination of real and manufactured news into share-able social media click bait for fun and profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Most &#8220;news&#8221; is going in this direction &#8211; emotionally targeted click-bait, designed for social media sharing, to generate eyeballs for advertisers &#8211; and trackable links to learn more about each reader. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NowThis News claims to be in the journalism business, but don\u2019t be fooled. This click-bait venture, which was founded in 2015 by Huffington Post co-founder Kenneth Lerer, is your basic, run-of-the-mill propaganda outfit. Its real goal is the spread of political agitprop. The twist here is that NowThis disguises itself as a genuine newsroom. In reality, this site has less in common with the Wall Street Journal, which does actual journalism, than it does with the low-level Resistance grift, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/07\/05\/journalism-executive-creates-online-news-service-as-click-bait-propaganda-outlet\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}