Charles Blow’s columns, without exception, were the clunkiest, most superficial, self-serious pieces of writing.
When I found out that the New York Times was ending Charles Blow’s regular column, it was like the boot of truth had slammed onto my shoulders with a thunderous clap.
An editor at the paper reportedly sent out an internal memo informing staff Friday morning that Blow’s departure was among the ways the Times opinion section would be reoriented, which means the publication will see a severe decline in mutilated metaphors, juvenile arguments, and the most unoriginal writing to ever hold such a prestigious place in news journalism. I’ll miss it dearly.
Most of my career in journalism has been some form or another of reporting and commenting on people like Blow, the writers and TV talkers who have a degree of influence on the national political discourse. Ever since I can remember, he’s been one of my all-time favorites, in no small part because he’s a parody of black Democrat males in media — nakedly insecure, defensive, and undeservedly bestowed with a position of prestige. He’s also incredibly dishonest, a word I use instead of just calling him dumb.
I broke the story that Blow in 2015 had publicly accused a police officer at Yale of racially profiling his son, while Blow never once mentioned to his audience that the officer himself was also black. Kind of an important omission. […]
— Read More: thefederalist.com
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
