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Welcome, Welcome, welcome. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Great to be together. Glad to do it. And. Let me say heading into the weekend, I hope everybody has a great weekend, a lot of things happening across the country. South Carolina primary on Saturday, South Carolina primary. That’s the big thing for President Trump and Nikki Haley, I suppose, although I don’t think it’s much of a race the question will be after it’s over. Will she yield and end up out of the race? That’s the question. So welcome. Anyway, it’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Thank you for tuning in.
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OK, today I wanna try. I want to comment on what I have been noticing and I agree with this. So this was a this was a an X post by Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk had caught my eye because I was already thinking about this issue. I had. I had seen the news, the news came out a couple of hours I guess it was maybe late Thursday night. Could have been early Friday and the news was that Vice. Vice was no longer gonna be operating at all. Well, hold on. Let me get this right. Yeah. BuzzFeed had sold itself to another company earlier in the week, but I think it was Vice that anyway, Buzz, I guess it’s BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed sold itself to someone else and then cut almost 20% of their staff. And and they will no longer be publishing. The their usual just C R A P as my grandmother would say, she would never say the word. They just it’s just a terrible BuzzFeed was one of the worst at being dishonest and not telling the truth. Really, really bad and really rotten. And they are not going to be around. OK, so they’re going away. Which is pretty good, pretty good. I mean it’s a pretty good start. Now the I mentioned in an e-mail to you that, excuse me, a text that not text an X post that Charlie Kirk did and he says this: Breaking: Vice media will stop publishing on vice.com. OK, so that’s one. That’s the big one. That’s big deal. Vice is rotten and then he goes on to say this: already in 2024, almost every major news publisher has cut jobs or completely closed its doors, including over 500 journalists. And he lists them. The Washington Post, Vox Media, the Los Angeles Times, Pitchfork. Sports Illustrated, Time, Business Insider, Tech Crunch, the Wall Street Journal, the media, excuse me, the Messenger and Vice media.
And then he says this. The fake news is on the ropes. I think that’s right. Here’s the question. If their model, their business model, was to be jerks to everything that half the country believed in. Maybe more than half the country, which is sort of MAGA. And people start tuning out. Where do they go? In fact, CNN made money only when Trump was in office. That was the running joke. But I think it’s right. I think the fake news is no, people know. People are aware now that they’ve been misled. They were aware now that they have been lied to, they’re aware now that the hoaxes that have been perpetrated by the the regime in power and the Democrats on the left, which I repeat myself, they’re both the same thing and including some moderate Republicans and the establishment that they have been lying and putting these hoaxes out. And the media has covered them.
People are sick of it. They’re sick of it.
And so you have to say to yourself, what is it that will save these mainstream media? The only thing you can do. If you’re the Washington Post is keep pumping money in from Bezos bank account. Sports Illustrated basically admitted there was no way they could make money. Now, do you say did did the Sports Illustrated lose their their mojo when they started putting on like, you know all different sized models for the swimsuit model? Who cares? I don’t even care. I I don’t really care. I don’t. I don’t care if that’s what did it. I what I care is that these mainstream media entities are struggling beyond belief.
So here’s my other part of this question. That’s good. That’s good in my mind, because you’re seeing some of the liars get out of The business, but.
What it worries me and what is concerning is. Is social media taking their place and is is the social media and the and the delivery mechanism of social media taking their place now?
Vice and and Vox and a couple of others, messenger, maybe were doing most of their stuff on the Internet, but they weren’t necessarily social media. They weren’t specifically social media. Now my fear is. Who will be the ones feeding us fake News? It’ll beFacebook, Instagram, TikTok, obviously.
The one place where you feel like there’s freedom, free speech. is X. And is it just for now?
I think that’s the question, right? I I you know, I talked to the owner of the Baltimore Sun. The Baltimore Sun is actually running a column of mine on Sunday, and he told me that a paper, like his, can make money. He said they have a path. They have a bunch of. I didn’t realize that the, the purchaser of the Baltimore Sun also got a bunch of regional sort of small town papers that I think that it umbrella’s over. And so he said he, we can make money. He said it’s hard. It’s going to be different models. I’m not sure I I’m not sure I believe him, to be honest. Ultimately, I think that the all of the all of the sort of legacy media has too many costs.
I’ll tell you that the piece I wrote, the column I wrote, it’s kind of a it’s kind of a a general interest feature. It’s going to run on Sunday. I’ll post it on the on the over Pro AmericaReport.com. It’s not really political, it’s more just general interest. But I had two different editors edit me and by the way, they were great editors. Well, I only talked well. I only interacted with the one sort of over and over about 4, 3 or four times. They the last editor was a sort of final check, and even he or she, I don’t even know their name. Did a great job, found a couple of things that tightened it up. And what I had submitted. Was 2500 words of of, of a column and they got it down to. 1900 and it was better. It was better. It was a better. It was a better column when it was done getting destroyed by these editors, those, those are those are expensive. Those are people that I’ve experience, that are around for a while. So I I don’t think that you can see the legacy media in in any meaningful way. Stay where they are. They just can’t afford it. The business model doesn’t allow for that To happen. And you know, you’re seeing cuts in salaries, the days of paying, you know, Jake Tapper $7,000,000. Those are going away because there’s not enough people watching. But over on social media, you’ll still see a social media entity start up and and get some traction and they’ll get bought and they will snap up people that are that are doing things with social media that have. They have enough of a following. It’s worth doing, it’s like the Rogan effect Joe Rogan got, you know, purchased or got contracted with for years and years now with Spotify, I guess it is. So I think that the, the, the, the point of Charlie Kirk’s tweet, which I think is great. The fake news is on the ropes. The fake news, the fake news. The fake news is on the ropes. But that’s that’s that’s that’s what we call big media. Fake news is what big media does if you want. Ohh actually no, I take that back. Fake news is the product. Big media is that list. Big Tech’s not on the ropes, not on the ropes. Some of the websites are, but not on the ropes. Facebook X. Instagram and even if somebody tells me they’re losing money, they’re still churning a lot of money. They’re still they have hundreds and thousands and 10s of thousands of employees. And they know how to manipulate us in ways that nobody could ever really expect. I mean you, you can’t even see it now. And you know, frankly, AI will make it even easier for, well, I’ve been working on a project and I’ve only been invited in as a a feedback guy, a guy to give some feedback on a project and as I’ve been working on this I realized that one of the points, one of the one of the instances of this product. There was information delivered and it was too fast, so I said to someone how are we getting that it? It would have required massive data entry and they said AI and I said, well, who’s programming AI? And they told me the company and I said, well, don’t you worry. It’s got a preference. And they said in this case. They, it was a they were using it only for a summaries, only for summaries. And they argued and they tested and said for summaries. It’s it’s relatively even. I’m not, even handed. I’m not sure it’s true. But I could tell you this.
Most of the AI’s are really biased and the bias is programmed by the programmer. The people that create the AI can do the bias they want. That’s the point of being an owner of a of a product. You can go ahead and do it the way you want it to be and you can make it left wing, right wing, in between wing and that’s what they do. Most of them are woke.
But so good news, Charlie Kirk’s right. Fake news. Big Media’s fake news is on the ropes. Big tech’s, big news, big tech’s Fake news, not so much. And I think we have to wonder about it. To wonder about what’s coming next. Alright, that’s what we got.
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