news aggregator
dunno if this is a thing
bunch of www sites that present as newspaper or magazine but just recycled web crap
see MSN
simon clark
this story gets more interesting. MSN is one of the world's largest news aggregators. That means that it's a web
3:24
service that collects news articles from places like the BBC, Reuters, Alazer,
3:30
whatever, and displays them all in one place. If you are running a Windows
3:35
machine, MSN is the default news aggregator on your desktop. And they
3:41
have a monetization scheme where adverts that are placed next to full articles
3:46
displayed from a third party site get their revenue split between MSN and that third party site. And Climate Cosmos
3:53
gets its content pulled by MSN and pushed into the feeds of millions of
...
4:30
violated its policies on misinformation. And so when Microsoft was made aware of
4:35
the content, it was all pulled. But via the massive reach of MSN, Climate Cosmos's content had escaped into the
4:43
wild, where it was seized upon by an entirely different kind of actor in the
4:49
climate information landscape. From the 1960s, it was very clear to
4:57
scientists working in the fossil fuel industry that the fuels they were selling were leading to carbon building
5:02
up in the atmosphere. In fact, in 1959, physicist Edward Teller warned them that
5:09
this would lead to global warming and sea level rise. In 1965, President Johnson's science advisory committee
5:15
published the Restoring the Quality of Our Environment Report. President of the American Petroleum Institute, Frank
5:21
Ikard, said of the report, "One of the most important predictions of the report is that carbon dioxide is being added to
5:27
the Earth's atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas at such a rate that by the year 2000, the heat
5:33
balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in the climate beyond local or even national efforts."
5:40
And he did not dispute the links between fossil fuels, CO2, and global warming. In retrospect, it's kind of surprising
5:47
that the fossil fuel industry didn't immediately start disputing those links and climate science as a whole. Because
5:54
after all, if it became public knowledge that their products were threatening the
5:59
climate stability that we all depend on, their industry could just cease to
6:04
exist. Perhaps it was because no government was seriously considering actual climate policy until the 1980s.
6:11
And it was at this time when the existential threat to the industry became clear that the fossil fuel
6:17
companies started fighting back with all the resources of the richest, most
6:24
powerful industry the world has ever seen. They financed think tanks and
6:29
individual scientists who disputed the scientific consensus, saying variously that climate change wasn't real. real
6:36
but not caused by the fossil fuel industry or real but actually beneficial to humanity. Their techniques included
6:42
use of experts outside their fields of study, lobbying policy makers, portraying environmental campaigners as
6:48
outofouch liberal elites, harassment and legal action against individual scientists, and accusing scientists of
6:54
accepting money from industry while paying other scientists to produce studies that supported the industry's
6:59
continued survival. The fossil fuel industry was using a playbook to dispute the science that had been honed by
7:05
previous industrial misinformation campaigns, notably by the tobacco industry when they disputed the science
7:12
linking tobacco smoke and lung cancer. In fact, the fossil fuel industry used some of the same experts from that
7:19
tobacco industry campaign. I would highly encourage you to read Merchants of Doubt by Areskis and Conway, which is
7:26
the authoritative account of how this playbook came to be. Though for more recent reporting, you can also read the
7:32
Union of Concerned Scientists climate deception dossier or most recently
7:37
Barbara Fries's Industrial Strength Denial. The result was that from the 1980s, the climate information landscape
7:44
became a battleground. On the one side, you had climate scientists and institutions taking observations, doing
7:51
analysis, and projecting what kind of damage would occur to the environment if we continued burning fossil fuels.
7:57
Victory for this side meant getting accurate information about climate change to the public and ultimately to
8:03
politicians. The end goal being government policy to
data harvesting?
sparked by human events online reboot as wanna-be drudge breitbart, vs magazine of actual ideas/policies
AGGREGATOR AD NETWORKMONETIZE? DICK PILLS GOSSIP?
Mediaite'is a digital news site that covers political news through the eyes of mainstream media. Part of the Abrams Media Network and founded by Dan Abrams, Mediaite covers breaking news, offers opinions, and analysis across the political spectrum including reporting on top media moments from cable news channels like CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC, & more.
- :{1:(style="display:table-cell;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0.5em"):}::{History:(style="display:table-cell"):}:
- :{2:(style="display:table-cell;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0.5em"):}::{Digital News Alliance:(style="display:table-cell"):}:
- :{3:(style="display:table-cell;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0.5em"):}::{Mediaite’s Most Influential In News Media:(style="display:table-cell"):}:
- :{4:(style="display:table-cell;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0.5em"):}::{References:(style="display:table-cell"):}:
- :{5:(style="display:table-cell;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0.5em"):}::{External links:(style="display:table-cell"):}:
History
Mediaite launched in July 2009 with Founding Editor Colby Hall alongside an editorial staff that included Rachel Sklar, Glynnis MacNicol and Steve Krakauer. At launch, Mediaite's ‘Power Grid’ drew attention for weekly rankings of various media figures across various platforms based on data-driven metrics such as Google News mentions, Twitter followers, TV ratings, Circulation and mentions on TV transcripts.
By early 2010, Mediaite launched a more aggressive strategy for covering cable news segments, which became the progenitor for many media and political websites today.
For the month of January 2017,[3] Dan Abrams revealed that Mediaite reached 11.86 million unique visitors.
Mediaite's writers have included Noah Rothman, Philip Bump, Joe Concha,[4] Tina Nguyen[5] and many other well known reporters.
Digital News Alliance
In June 2019, Mediaite, along with sister site Law&Crime, left leaning RawStory and AlterNet, and conservative sites The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon announced that they formed a coalition of political news sites to offer marketers custom advertising packages that are aimed at readers interested in politics. The Alliance aims to "bring some of the ad dollars now being directed at the tech behemoths back to midsized political publishers"[6], according to Andrew Eisbrouch, COO.
Mediaite’s Most Influential In News Media
Every December, Mediaite publishes a list of the 75 most influential people in news media—compiled by all of the Mediaite editors. The publication of the list culminates in a party hosted by the site and attended by many top cable anchors and correspondents. The list is in its 4th year.
Mediaite's Most Influential - 2015[7]
Mediaite's Most Influential - 2016[8]
Mediaite's Most Influential - 2017[9]
Mediaite's Most Influential - 2018[10]