Goodbye from Easy Media List

May 7, 2025

We launched Easy Media List over 20 years ago and have since served many thousands of small businesses, non-profits, publicists and government agencies. We are grateful to you all and thank you for your support.

It's been a great business but now it's time to say goodbye.

The lifespan of Easy Media List has seen the news media decimated by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and a few other corporations which control the digital ad business and take most of the money it generates. Their businesses rely on theft -- of the personal information of their users and the intellectual property of content creators, at least until the creators all go broke and none are left to steal from.

At that point, the corporate thieves will become entirely reliant on the fabrications and hallucinations of wildly overhyped artificial intelligence systems. The consequences will run from not pretty to pretty dire.

With the growth of automation and AI, news media reports are becoming "a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there," as George Santayana thought of writing about history.

It's a grim time for those who stand against the abuses perpetrated by predatory corporations, venal politicians and demented billionaires. Winter in America, as Gil Scott-Heron wrote and sang:

"The Constitution, a noble piece of paper
Would free society. It struggled but then died
in vain
And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner
Hoping for some rain"