Response to stupid NYTs
NEWS ANALYSIS Nov 28, 2024.1/2
Dems mad they 'got killed in alternative media' as they seek to replicate TPUSA, Daily Wire—which were created in response to leftists' stranglehold on culture
Democrats are unhappy about their electoral loss and they're still trying to figure out how it happened. They have blamed voters, pollsters, Joe Biden, each other, and now they have decided that their lack of alternative media in the parallel economy model of the right is to blame."We got killed in alternative media," said Stuart Perelmuter in a new article out from The New York Times. Perelmuter has been "contemplating" some kind of alternative Dem influencer group. "Republicans have been investing in that space for years. And on the left we have treated creators who are not in legacy media as gig workers."
Perelmuter is one of many left-wing progressive influencers who complained to The Times that the Democrats aren't doing enoughto fund their efforts whileothers claim that their side needs to launch an organization to rival founder Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USAor create a media outlet like The Daily Wire, which publishes news, runs podcasts, makes filmsand even has launched children's programming.
But they are missing one key thing: the right-wing media eco-system came into being as a reaction against the left-wing controlled mainstream media outlets in news, the stranglehold Democrats had on Hollywood, and the overwhelming progressive infiltration of leading academic institutions. If there had been openings for the kind of content conservatives crave in any of these areas, if there had been fair news coverage, if there had been balance in education, if there had been room for people with opposing views, it is likely that The Daily Wire, TPUSA, would not have grown so greatly as they have because conservative consumers would have had options. The lack of options gave conservative content creators one more thing: passion.
TPUSA, The Daily Wire, outlets like The Post Millennial and Human Events, right-wing meme-makers, YouTubers, TikTokers and creatorslaunched their projects because they were driven to do it.Money came after passion.
The New York Times spoke toleftist influencers who were frustrated they weren't getting paid more by Democrats, such as The Zacktivist who said "up until the end, everything was pretty much free work." The kind of work being done here, to elect a president arguably due to a belief in the fundamental necessity of that candidate winning, should be work that would be done whether a person is paid to do it or not.The Zacktivist noted he's been paid "nothing" since Kamala's loss. The Times indicates that not financially backing leftist creators between elections could spell trouble for the next election cycle.
Democrats believe that the Republican creators were all getting paid oodles of cash to do what they were doing. But as in 2016, when meme-makers were launching Trump-centric content to boost his chances and deliver his message,many people do this kind of work because they are passionate about it, because they want their guy to win, and find funding sources along the way, such as ads, sponsorships, or even X creator payouts. Others do this workwhile they're working straight jobs on the side.…
https://thepostmillennial.com/dems-mad-they-got-killed-in-alternative-media-as-they-seek-to-replicate-tpusa-daily-wire?cfp