{"id":35084,"date":"2018-02-07T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35084"},"modified":"2018-01-18T09:36:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:36:14","slug":"qotd-you-are-not-the-customer-youre-the-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/02\/07\/qotd-you-are-not-the-customer-youre-the-product\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: You are not the customer &#8230; you&#8217;re the product"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As we enter the third 24-hour period of relentless media coverage, the part where even the local TV stations have custom bumpers for the incident with distinctive theme music, let&#8217;s make sure we have some things clear.<\/p>\n<p>TV news does not sell news to you.<\/p>\n<p>TV news sells commercial time to corporations and your eyeballs are the poker chips in the card game.<\/p>\n<p>Atrocities (and let&#8217;s keep our terminology straight: hurricanes and earthquakes are tragedies, this was an atrocity) are like a Double Bonus Round in the Eyeball Delivery Sweepstakes for FOXNews and CNN and MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>And all this attention is just incentivizing the next Eyeball Deliverer out there, patiently loading magazines (or mixing fertilizer, or dumping powder into pressure cookers, or studying a flight manual, or filling jerry cans&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, ironically this post is just more attention being paid, and by complaining about the problem I make myself a part of it. It&#8217;s a hell of a thing. <\/p>\n<p>Tamara Keel, <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/terminology-again.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Terminology, again&#8221;, <em>View From The Porch<\/em><\/a>, 2016-06-14.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we enter the third 24-hour period of relentless media coverage, the part where even the local TV stations have custom bumpers for the incident with distinctive theme music, let&#8217;s make sure we have some things clear. TV news does not sell news to you. TV news sells commercial time to corporations and your eyeballs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,28,41],"tags":[257,101],"class_list":["post-35084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media","category-quotations","tag-terrorism","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-97S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35085,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35084\/revisions\/35085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}