Maybe Try Not Sucking

posted by Derek Hunter at TownhallVIP

I don’t like to see anyone lose their jobs, so I prefer to look away when left-wing journalists get laid off. I’m only kidding, I don’t like to celebrate it, but I do have to try hard not to. There is just something about seeing arrogant, lying activists who pretend to be honest brokers, who insist they are the ONLY HONEST BROKERS in the country seeing the fruits of the labor turn rotten. They’re always shocked; caught off guard by market forces when all they really had to do was try not sucking.

That’s the key to a lot of life – trying not to suck. Not everything. Sometimes, no matter how good someone is, they will lose their job. Generally, however, sucking will make that happen more often than not and much faster than being good at your job.

So, what brought this up? Politico has a story about the state of New York creating tax breaks for media outlets to hire local journalists. “The state budget, set to be finalized Saturday, includes the nation’s first payroll tax credit for local news organizations in a bid to encourage new hiring amid the ongoing struggles of journalism outlets to cover their communities,” they report.

Why? 

I agree that journalism is important, but the people engaging it what they call it are not honest, they are Democrats with press passes. Why should taxpayers pick up the bill for what is essentially the DNC hiring press secretaries? 

They shouldn’t, of course. 

The thing about journalism is people want it, want good journalism. We have a desire to know what’s happening in our world, we need to know what’s happening in our politics. And while journalism insists it is that, it hasn’t come anywhere close to that in years, decades maybe.

They used to do honest journalism against their will sometimes. There was always bias, but it wasn’t always all BS. Now it is. Now you can watch or read something and not learn anything. You can know the truth through having been there or just experience, and see the lies being woven together for the benefit of Democrats in real time.

Why would anyone care if those people lose their jobs? Why should taxpayers, even in New York, have to pay to keep propagandists employed? 

 “Lawmakers and independent media companies praised the tax break, which will designate $30 million a year to the program, called the Local Journalism Sustainability Act,” according to Politico. 

Democrats hold majorities in the New York House and Senate, which empowers them to use other people’s money to pay for something their citizens consciously choose not to patronize. 

If people thought they were getting honest and useful information from these outlets, they’d buy their product. But the profession is so awful that people don’t. If, at any point in the last few years, they had decided not to suck, their customers would have returned. 

Think of it as a restaurant in the perfect location, but the food sucks. You’ve probably seen somewhere that has been a restaurant graveyard until, one day, it isn’t anymore. Someone does it right and the place booms; always packed. It wasn’t because customers got sick of seeking new places pop up in the same place all the time, it’s because someone finally made good food and a good price.

It's called “market forces.”

If you offer customers something they want at a price they can afford, they will buy it. People want information, but there is no price at which bad information or Democrat spin is something people will afford.

It’s not hard, it’s pretty simple, really. All they have to do is not suck and they’d be doing better. 

So, why won’t they just not suck? They can’t and they won’t. Many of these people aren’t capable of not being tools for the left, they don’t have honesty in them. Others just won’t. A large percentage of the political left are suicide bombers, perfectly content to destroy themselves as long as it is in the process of advancing the left-wing agenda. Current outlets infested with either of these groups of people can’t be saved, nor should they.

Let them go under as a warning to others, as there will be others started up in their wake: to be successful in anything, including media, it’s most important that you not suck. You get that right and you’ve improved your chances of success exponentially.