So called "Value Capture" in Media & Internet Sites

"Value capture" - a friendly sounding term encountered in high finance and planning circles.

 What it really means is value denial, value transfer or simply value theft.

 In practice this means charging the same or more while giving less, even without any cost savings!

Local syndicated newspapers, like the Gannet newspapers of a few decades back that replaced its local editorial board and columnists with simply reprinting the editorials from U.S.A. Today.  And such newspapers that stopped printing "letters to the editor".

Web sites that discontinue their comments sections.  Sadly an increasingly all to common occurrence.  Typically done with lame excuses (given that comments are moderated and can be individually altered or deleted) typified by such concerns that some comments are "vitriol", "sexist", "racist", personal attacks, or best of all, "toxic" - a phrase signifying conversations that spotlight the absurdity of some prevailing, mass media crafted fallacy.  Such reasons seem more as the product of some central direction, rather than the true opinions of those being ordered to repeat such nonsense being falsely attributed to them.

Internet newspaper sites that insist upon a paid subscription, even to read the one article they allowed you to fetch on your internet browser for maybe 3 seconds before blocking you reading it with a pop up window.

Cable television services that use some sort of flash rom that must be reloaded after any sort of power loss, while failing to use a basic bios chip.  And worse, such service that bombard viewers with repetitious commercials, particularly those advertising their own service which one is already subscribing to!  And these idiot companies don't even give us commercials suited to a viewers' interests which they could already know about from web browsing histories.  And interestingly, cable boxes that must take 10 to 15 minutes to reload after a power outage.  Supposedly for software. But is it also for loading a group of commercials, explain why we get the same few commercials so extra repeatedly, while saving them on bandwidth?

Cable television services that fail to provide basic citizen access to government proceedings, such as U.S. Senate and House of Representative Hearings and floor debates- which all should be mandated by a Constitutional amendment, including a channel that reports upon the daily emissions from the Federal Register.

Cable television portals that trick people into unwittingly subscribing to channels via deliberately confusing interfaces designed to induce people to subscribe unwittingly.  Be sure to not send a confirmation mail or email regarding such subscriptions.  Be sure to charge the "subscribers" monthly, despite not watching such channels. 

Cable television documentary that present false information to suit an established economic scheme status quo.  Such as History Channel specials upon "cocaine" that fail to set apart what ought to be made clear, that "cocaine" means things as diverse as "caffeine means drinking Coffee, Tea, soft drinks, or taking refined caffeine powder, let along Tobacco chewing versus Black Tar 400 nicotine insecticide.

Television news channels that are ALL designed to fit a given pre selected political narrative.  Such is how the minds of many people are manipulated to be reactive-one dimensional in their though process.  Such as conditioning people.  Such as to ASSUME that just FOX or CNN/MSNBC are guilty of misrepresentation, particularly and especially devotes of the Democrat Party who condemn FOX while giving the others a near or total free pass, or say hate Donald Trump while pretending that Joseph Biden is the man to trust.

More on "Value Capture" - see: https://cos-mobile.blogspot.com/2023/08/how-value-capture-high-finance-dictated.html