Happy Fake News
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:20 am
The medium lit a bomb, but it didn't want to go off. The fuse was slightly damp. This is probably mainly because hardly anyone knows "Happy Times", an online medium that, according to its own advertising, publishes "only good news". The approach is not entirely new; there are various media that started and failed with this philosophy. The online portal is a crude mixture of sent media releases, which are placed as positive news with lots of exclamation marks, and advertising news, especially car usa rcs data tests, which has been turned into editorial texts. Automation is in charge in the various sections. For example, in sports, where "all the latest sports results, scores and scores" are promised, Google News is simply aggregated.
So far, so irrelevant. However, the editorial team has apparently decided to go on a journalistic offensive these days and launched a preview. "NoBillag: Swiss publisher wants to buy SRG! SRG will therefore continue broadcasting even after a YES to NoBillag," was the title . The headline referred to a tweet in which a certain This Bürge promised to buy the SRG for 669 million francs if it "doesn't come up with a plan B" by August 1st.
This Bürge is known as a colorful figure who ran for the St. Gallen city council in 2014 as a newcomer, received an eighth of the votes and sold it as a "respectable success". His involvement in the media is limited to publishing the online newspaper "Montagszeitung", which is probably even less popular than the "Happy Times". The newspaper is a vehicle of the "Solidarity Switzerland Organization", of which Bürge is secretary and which no one knows either. Bürge is a political grassroots activist, but not a publisher in the literal sense.
So far, so irrelevant. However, the editorial team has apparently decided to go on a journalistic offensive these days and launched a preview. "NoBillag: Swiss publisher wants to buy SRG! SRG will therefore continue broadcasting even after a YES to NoBillag," was the title . The headline referred to a tweet in which a certain This Bürge promised to buy the SRG for 669 million francs if it "doesn't come up with a plan B" by August 1st.
This Bürge is known as a colorful figure who ran for the St. Gallen city council in 2014 as a newcomer, received an eighth of the votes and sold it as a "respectable success". His involvement in the media is limited to publishing the online newspaper "Montagszeitung", which is probably even less popular than the "Happy Times". The newspaper is a vehicle of the "Solidarity Switzerland Organization", of which Bürge is secretary and which no one knows either. Bürge is a political grassroots activist, but not a publisher in the literal sense.