Good to know. This is hilarious, hypocrisy reigns:
"“I have no idea why Soros would do this unless it was to manipulate the thinking of Americans and the information they listen to,” author and former member of the George W. Bush administration Mike Gonzalez told The Center Square.
“Conservative talk radio is huge, and there is no left wing talk radio because it's just not interesting,” said Gonzalez, who is now at the Heritage Foundation. “Conservative talk radio is one of the few communications that conservatives have not a monopoly on but have a strong handle on, and he has bought stations that have Mark Levin and Sean Hannity and Dana Loesch and Glenn Beck.”"
Yet our trolls tell us gleefully msm is all liberal, as if the right does talk to more Americans than not.
Nick Hanauer talks a lot of good stuff so i googled "nick hanauer and other liberal billionaires should get into radio and tv stations with soros" and ended up with this seven year-old, with news of more conservative communication action than Liberal media material:
Political Donors Put Their Money Where the Memes Are
An image from Occupy Democrats, a left-wing Facebook page.
Imagine you’re a millionaire or billionaire with strong political views and a desire to spread those views to the masses. Do you start a think tank in Washington? Funnel millions to a shadowy “super PAC”? Bankroll the campaign of an up-and-coming politician?
For a growing number of deep-pocketed political donors, the answer is much more contemporary: Invest in internet virality.
As TV, radio and newspapers give way to the megaphonic power of social media, today’s donor class is throwing its weight behind a new group of partisan organizations that specialize in creating catchy, highly shareable messages for Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms. Viral media expertise is emerging as a crucial skill for political operatives, and as donors look to replicate the success of the social media sloganeers who helped lift President Trump to victory, they’re seeking out talented meme makers.
You’ve probably seen these groups on your news feed. Some have grandiose-sounding names like Occupy Democrats and The Other 98%. Others, such as Milo Inc., the media outfit built around the alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, are outgrowths of a single internet personality. Their output and tone vary, but typically include a steady stream of aggregated links, captioned images and short videos. All of this gets thrust in front of a social media audience, in the hope that something will catch fire, change skeptical minds or incite real-world action.
Stand Up America, a new progressive outfit run by Sean Eldridge, the husband of the Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, is emblematic of the union between big-money donors and social media organizing. Mr. Eldridge, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2014, started a Facebook page in the week after Hillary Clinton’s defeat, and began writing posts and linking to anti-Trump stories.
“There was a ton of anger on the left and many progressives looking for something to do,” Mr. Eldridge told me in an interview. “Particularly on social media, the existing political media was pretty slow to respond.”
That page quickly grew to have 1.1 million followers, and has expanded beyond graphics and news stories to include efforts like a Facebook bot that helped more than 100,000 users send faxes to their representatives. For Mr. Eldridge, the return on investment has been shockingly high.
An image from Milo Inc., a media outfit built around the alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
“We’ve spent in the low six figures to reach, on average, 10 million people a week,” he said.
Donor excitement about social media organizing, he added, is a “natural evolution toward a skepticism of TV and paid media, where you can spend a lot of money very quickly and not be sure what you’re getting for it.”
The ubiquity of social media, coupled with the low cost of production, has tempted donors from both parties. Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of the Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus, scandalized Silicon Valley last year by revealing that he had given $10,000 to Nimble America, a group that planned to place right-wing memes on billboards, T-shirts and other products. Mr. Luckey, who subsequently left Facebook, explained in a statement that he “thought the organization had fresh ideas on how to communicate with young voters.”
Nimble America has since folded, according to a representative who responded to an email sent to the group.
Wealthy donors aren’t newcomers to partisan media start-ups. The Huffington Post was conceived after John Kerry’s loss to George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election, and was supported at its outset by a slate of Democratic boosters including Arianna Huffington and the venture capitalist Kenneth Lerer. The Daily Caller, a conservative web publication, got its start in 2010 with $3 million in funding from the Republican megadonor Foster Friess.
What distinguishes the current wave of donors is a focus on social media — Facebook in particular — and a willingness to fund newcomers without ties to the media establishment.
John Sellers, a left-wing organizer and former Greenpeace activist, started a Facebook page called The Other 98% several years ago to promote his views on environmentalism, corporate greed and other progressive causes. The page has five million followers, and its nonprofit affiliate has received funding from donors including Open Society Foundations, a group backed by the progressive billionaire George Soros.
Civic Ventures, an organization founded by the Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, has paid partnerships with several popular left-wing Facebook pages, including The Other 98% and Occupy Democrats.
Zach Silk, the president of Civic Ventures, credited these pages with building support for some of the organization’s key issues, including the “Fight for 15” movement, in which fast-food workers advocated a higher minimum wage.
“There’s real soul-searching going on” among donors, Mr. Silk said, “and a real interest in finding these other mediums to communicate.”
An image from Milo Inc.
“You don’t need a complicated website with hundreds of white papers,” he added. “You need quick, memeable, shareable content.”
While some social publishers are structured as nonprofits, many are for-profit businesses that more closely resemble internet start-ups. Milo Inc., which has nearly 20 employees cranking out content for Mr. Yiannopoulos’s 2.2 million Facebook fans, claims to have raised $12 million from a group of investors in order to “cultivate an entire next generation” of conservative internet personalities.
BuzzFeed reported last month on documents that suggested that Robert and Rebekah Mercer, who contributed heavily to the Trump campaign, were supporting Mr. Yiannopoulos in his efforts. But Alexander Macris, the chief executive of Milo Inc., told me that while the group had pitched the Mercers on a potential stake, the investment hadn’t materialized. (Through a spokesman, the Mercers declined to comment.)
Conservatives, it is generally acknowledged, have so far had the upper hand in the viral content wars. Mr. Trump spent many millions less than his opponents did on traditional TV advertising, but benefited from an army of amateur creators who flooded social media with pro-Trump messages.
The edgy, boundary-crossing humor beloved by the “memelords” who fill Reddit and 4 Chan was a natural fit for the Trump campaign’s loose-cannon messaging style, and it worked. According to a study by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, who analyzed high-performing social media posts during the final two months of the campaign, nearly two-thirds of the most popular election tweets were either anti-Clinton or pro-Trump.
Now, some Democrats are hoping to close that gap by building their own viral content studios. Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, and Mark Pincus, a co-founder of Zynga, announced this year that they had spent $500,000 to establish a group called Win the Future, which would, among other things, allow users to vote for popular user-generated messages to be turned into real-life billboards in Washington.
David Brock, the well-known Democratic operative, announced last year that he was raising $40 million to support a network of left-wing organizations that would rival Breitbart, the conservative digital publisher. Shareblue, Mr. Brock’s viral news outfit, has amassed 1.4 million Facebook followers by specializing in what it calls “practical, factual content to delegitimize Trump’s presidency.”
[Insert: Hope the Democrat Party and our billionaires, who are putting an effort in, have learned something from this election.]
Donor funding is no guarantee of success for partisan publishers — as with all viral internet content, there are limits to what money can buy. But given the outcome of the presidential election, Democrats may have no other choice than to enter the meme wars.
[That was the 2016 election they are talking about there.]
“This was the missing piece of the progressive infrastructure,” said Jess McIntosh, Shareblue’s executive editor, who worked as Mrs. Clinton’s director of communications outreach during the 2016 campaign. “Everyone understands that what gets shared online matters now.”
A correction was made on Aug. 6, 2017: An earlier version of this column misspelled the surname of the right-wing commentator behind Milo Inc. He is Milo Yiannopoulos, not Yiannopolous.
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Surely this Trump administration will serve to inform millions of Americans that the propaganda lies Trump and his people told about the economy and how they would do much better than the Democrats at helping the poor and building the middle class were more bullshit than not. Surely they will ruin the building economy as per their norm.
And surely Democrats will more than counter all the undeserved credit for Biden achievements which Trump people will falsely claim.
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