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So Here's My Endorsement


This election does not come down to a choice between two candidates. It comes down to a choice between two forms of government, blah, blah, blah...

That's how I originally began this post, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized it's really about a far more …

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  1. Dan C. from MS Entertainment, October 28, 2024 at 2:27 p.m.

    First - you already endorsed her. You claim to be an independent but there has never been a Red White and Blue blog where you remotely sided with conservatives. 


    Second - the biggest disappointment for me with MediaPost is its resistance to change. Legacy news outlets have fractions of audience compared to individuals on YouTube and Substack.  Mediapost is stuck in the dark ages of reporting on how people are getting their information. You can add all the news networks together and they still don't achieve viewership numbers like a Joe Rogan or Bill Maher or the Breakfast Club or Ben Shapiro who have conversations with people on all sides of the political and scientific spectrums...without bias or interruption...and their audiences can hear unfiltered conversations and make their own informed decisions. 



    Legacy media does not = mainstream media. Sad that MP hasn't evolved along with the mediums it's supposed to be covering. 


     

  2. Jack Wakshlag from Media Strategy, Research & Analytics, October 28, 2024 at 3:08 p.m.

    What facts support the view that legacy media have smaller audiences than individuals on YouTube or substack?  Don't count followers. Count actually minutes spent. You can have your own opinions, but you don't get to establish your own facts. When you make a data claim post your source. That's what is expected, at the very least. 

  3. Ed DeNicola from MediaLytics, October 28, 2024 at 3:17 p.m.

    Hi Dan Ciccone --

    Joe Rogan and Bill Maher are comedians. Ben Shapiro is a pundit. None of these people create news.

    Joe Mandese's piece is opinion, and we're all entitled to one. I think you're confusing news with opinion and entertainment. News is supposed to be unbiased; whereas, opinion is inherently biased.

    When I worked for conservatives at Cambridge Analytica and was caught up in the Facebook scandal, the news media wouldn't allow us to tell our side of the story. It didn't matter what we said, they wanted to write about a scandal. MediaPost has been the only publication to give me a voice and let me express some of what I experienced there.

    I can understand you frustsration, but at the same time I think it is misplaced.

    Best regards, Ed

  4. Joe Mandese from MediaPost Inc., October 28, 2024 at 3:39 p.m.

    @Dan Ciccone: You're hilarious and I guess you don't follow my endorsements very closely. I literally endorsed one of the most conservative Republicans back in 2022, Liz Cheney:

    https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/375297/why-im-endorsing-liz-cheney-for-president.html

    You also confuse Conservatives with Opportunists, because Trump never was the former. (Check his voting record before he ran for office as a Republican.)

    People call me "Liberal," "Progressive," and a bunch of other names, but those who know me well would say I'm kind of Conservative about some important issues, like defense, the economy, etc.

    Personally, I think of myself as being on the right side of issues, not polarized Left or Right.

    But when it comes to Donald Trump, it's not even a political discussion. It's just that he's been using politics as a means to his end, and for some reason, people who call themselves Conservatives, Republicans and other names, seem to be following him to it.

  5. Dan C. from MS Entertainment replied, October 28, 2024 at 5:22 p.m.

    @Ed

    First, you're missing the point and you obviously don't watch Maher or Rogan or Shapiro.  Rogan's podcast is not comedy. He has hours long conversations about a variety of subjects with renouned scientists and well-known and not well-known politicians. He has conversations and doesn't pretend to be a journalist and lets his followers make up their own minds while often not offering his own opinion  



    I watched his three hour conversation with Trump. Trump spoke at length about taxes, the history of income taxes, and tariffs. It was a very thoughtful presentation of his approach to taxes whether you agree with him or not. 



    A ten minute conversation about taxes was boiled down to "Trump wants to abolish income taxes" as headlines across legacy media outlets. 



    First, that's not what he said.  Second, it just gives more reason to anyone who watched or listened to the conversation to not trust legacy media to provide objectivity or truth.



    Second - even Bill Maher says he does not trust legacy media because they are caught in lies. Often. 

    Finally @Mandese - the only reason you endorsed Cheney is because she openly expressed her hatred for Trump. 



    I really don't care about your partisan leanings and personal opinion. What I care about is how MP does a terrible job of evaluating tectonic shifts in the media landscape and is as desperate to hold onto the importance of legacy media as legacy media executives who haven't figured out that the average American is seeking truth and objectivity and not partisan, false narrative bullshit. 

    Go where the audience is going and report on those shifts and why consumers of media are abandoning legacy news outlets in droves instead of making excuses for "news" networks that can't figure out how to adapt. 

  6. Jack Wakshlag from Media Strategy, Research & Analytics, October 28, 2024 at 6:37 p.m.

    Still waiting for the facts supporting audience size of substacks, Individual YouTube channels vs mainstream media.  Facts matter here. Show them or just admit error. 

  7. Ben B from Retired, October 28, 2024 at 11:33 p.m.

    I'm voting 3RD party once again like in 2020 as I don't vote for the 2 evils which I'm not ever going to do. And I'll vote GOP on the down-ballot I hope they keep the house & retake the senate and I'll be fine with Kamala as president I don't want one party rule by either side.

  8. Kenneth Fadner from MediaPost replied, October 29, 2024 at 7:42 a.m.

    Mr. Ciccone:
    You said:
    "I really don't care about your partisan leanings and personal opinion. What I care about is how MP does a terrible job of evaluating tectonic shifts in the media landscape and is as desperate to hold onto the importance of legacy media as legacy media executives who haven't figured out that the average American is seeking truth and objectivity and not partisan, false narrative bullshit."

    So tell us, what are you doing wasting your time here?

    Given your views, if you wish to un-subscribe just send me a note at ken@mediapost.com and I will expedite.

    -Ken Fadner, Publisher

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