{"id":56517,"date":"2021-01-26T17:39:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56517"},"modified":"2021-01-26T17:39:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:39:15","slug":"the-mephistopheles-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56517","title":{"rendered":"The Mephistopheles Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mephistopheles Media<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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\nAry Scheffer\u00a0Faust in his Study\u00a0<\/b>c1840<\/center>
<\/center>The essence of the story of Faust is simple: He is a man who sells his -future- soul to the devil in return for short term gain, for riches \u201cnow\u201d. But years later, the devil comes to collect his prize.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a modern allegory.<\/p>\n

In 2015 -or thereabouts- many of the mainstream media (MSM) outlets were facing dire times. Social media were taking over much of their readers\u2019 attention, their ad revenue plummeted, and they didn\u2019t have big stories to tell that would revert that trend. Things did not look good for the survival of CNN, New York Times or MSNBC. The Washington Post suffered the same problems, but they were owned by the world\u2019s richest man.<\/p>\n

And then the salvation presented itself on their doorstep in the form of Donald Trump. It\u2019s not something they planned for, it just happened; it even took them a while to figure it out, but once they did, they went for it headfirst and all-in. How could they not? They were dying. Their finance departments told them anything negative about Trump was selling like hotcakes. And Trump willingly added to the fire.<\/p>\n

The MSM made a Faustian pact with the devil (through his messenger Mephistopheles) for survival. And that devil was not Donald Trump, they never signed a deal with him, the devil disguised himself in the shape of clickbait, which very much has the devil\u2019s signature, since it required them to do their \u201creporting\u201d based on promoting hatred, conflict, division, anger, negativity, bitterness, resentment. All of which sells. Like nothing else. You don\u2019t get people\u2019s attention with happy stories, you get it by making them angry.<\/p>\n

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The Mephistopheles Media Ary Scheffer\u00a0Faust in his Study\u00a0c1840The essence of the story of Faust is simple: He is a man who sells his -future- soul to the devil in return for short term gain, for riches \u201cnow\u201d. But years later, the devil comes to collect his prize. Here\u2019s a modern allegory. In 2015 -or thereabouts- […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24650,30861,30862,29264,29265,30863,10950,512,30864,4728,13924,5177,10522,862],"class_list":["post-56517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-clickbait","tag-devil","tag-divine-mercy","tag-faust","tag-goethe","tag-gretchen","tag-integrity","tag-media","tag-mephistopheles","tag-msm","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-trump","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56518,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56517\/revisions\/56518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}