Ringside at the Reckoning

Ringside at the Reckoning

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The authenticity gap

The authenticity gap

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Paul Mirengoff
Oct 22, 2024
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Erick Erickson reports that last night he wanted to watch a split screen on YouTube TV of the Mets v Dodgers game and the Jets v Steelers game. He was unable to:

I could not watch any variation on YouTube TV without also having to put on the WNBA game. Every option to watch a split screen required the WNBA game to be on. I assume they will hype all the people who watched it [and include those forced to do so against their will.

I have nothing against women’s basketball. Although I don’t watch the WNBA, I do enjoy the last rounds of the Women’s NCAA championship. And last night’s WNBA contest — the decisive Game Five of the league’s title round — apparently turned out to be an overtime thriller.

But forcing people to have a WNBA game on their screen, if that’s what YouTube deliberately did, seems like yet another manifestation of leftist Big Tech as Big Brother. Or, more to the point, Big Sister.

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