The media isn't interested in the biggest technology story of the 2020s, the rapid transition to clean energy, because 1) it will destroy a bunch of oil based wealth and is a boring, competirive low margin business 2) it makes Democrats look good for helping it and they want Republicans to win
And the Jan6ers were so stupid that in addition to filming themselves they didn’t even wear masks… in the middle of a effing pandemic!! 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
To your point here, oil-based market participants are also long-tenured and deep-pocketed advertisers on traditional media platforms — while clean-energy economy upstarts are … not. I don’t think that’s a _conscious_ consideration in coverage decisions — but I suspect it’s nonetheless a factor.
good news doesn't sell papers
Big Oil spends a lot of $ on advertising.
The powers that be are desperate that American voters not find out about this because so many of them profit from the Saudi's bonesaw regime and it's alliance with Trump bsky.app/profile/crai...
I was at a labor convention recently and the green transition was all everyone's talking about - lots of new jobs in evs and chips and green energy. Gave a very different view of the economy than the doom and gloom media and tech stuff you hear online.
Prostitutes gonna toot
I think some things are easy to transition and others, not so much
There is a one-two punch the administration is pulling off here. Not only accelerating the transition to clean energy but breaking oil’s ability to manipulate the market to defend its position. bsky.app/profile/chri...
Joe Biden pulled off perhaps the greatest oil trade of all time and in the process broke OPEC's grip and basically no one knows about it. We did a long segment on it last night and it's fascinating and worth your time. www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch...
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, has had massive influence over American politics for six decades. President Biden’s "incredible" oil market trading has broken this infl...