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They call him “The News”
because he was always talking about who he slept with.
That’s why corporate media is a very bad idea
Unfortunately, state media can be as well.
My country’s national broadcaster is still fairly OK, there doesn’t seem to be any real pressure to censor specific topics or anything. The BBC on the other hand, has been losing its credibility hard in recent years with all their anti-palestine shit.
And now imagine if the US had a prominent national broadcaster. Like NPR does exist, but what if it was something that a majority of Americans watched on TV. Now imagine what would happen to it under someone like Trump.
I think trump owns fox news
Even Fox News has criticized him once or twice (at which point it was named communist media by MAGAts, it was hilarious). And Fox’s CEO could still decide to do whatever if he got pissed with Trump, he just happens to find it gainful being aligned with Trump.
As with so many things, you can trace it back to Ronald Reagan.
Cronkite, Peter Jennings et al worked under a thing called ‘The Fairness Doctrine.’ Back when radio was first regulated, both Parties agreed that the public airwaves should remain neutral. No one person / company could own more than six radio stations [AM and FM] Any time there was an editorial, the station had to offer time for opposing views, and the stations had to broadcast news daily.
Reagan had seen how that system had taken down Nixon, and swore it would be destroyed.
It’s like being a better person doesn’t even occur to them as an option
When you worship death, that just comes as a matter of course. It’s like how kicking puppies doesn’t occur to you as an option
That’s the great thing about knowing how great you are.
Lying is completely justified if it’s in a good cause, and keeping the GOP in power is a sacred cause.
Buy a gun. Organize. Use it.
Enact change
Stop pretending that you are powerless
Yeah, that’ll give us the illusion of power. A gun!
Which cities were the ones that were most targeted by ICE? The ones with strict gun control. I don’t think that was a coincidence.
Maybe some correlation it’s not the reason why. Your tinfoil hat is too tight, and it’s restricting bloodflow to your brain.
The cities most targeted by ICE tend to be blue politically, and that comes with a culture that generally agrees that there should be some barriers in place when buying a weapon. They also generally have the belief that people should not be tortured and kicked out of the US even if they’re darker than a hotel towel or have a scary last name.
Places like that tend to vote for people that would try to oppose everything the Trump admin is doing.
Sure there are a multitude of reasons. But we saw it clear as day on Minneapolis vs was it Philadelphia that had the Black Panthers show up while own carrying? Which one had fatalities caused by the police?
Peter Jennings was a real one.
Cronkite, too.
100%
Still got that type of news in Germany. Except the guy in a suit is sometimes replaced by a woman in a blazer. Daily programme called “Tagesschau” is still the most watched show in german television.
Unfortunately they’ve been making it a bit worse deliberately, by stretching out irrelevant topics and adding street interviews with people that have nothing to say :/
Yeah, that’s true. Some pieces also feel pretty one-sided to me. However, overall I still consider it to be a good news outlet.
For sure
street interviews with people that have nothing to say
Some neighbors deserve my hatred, mainly the ones I had in rural areas. Luckily my current neighbors seem great, I live in a city now.
Yes and that guy would tell you every day that Israel is in Gaza to defend themselves etc. And you would believe it as the west has for the past 80 years.
The modern media landscape has its own problems but it is so much richer than the prior narrative led order that the likes of BBC still shovel out today.
Things were never the same after CNN made the news ticker permanent on 9/11/01
I miss when news sources were just the paper and nightly local news.
I wonder how hard it would be to sell people on a news site subscription that just updates once a day with actual journalism instead of click-bait headlines to drive ad revenue and AI articles.
A Danish news paper have succeeded in doing that: https://www.zetland.media/zetland
And it is fucking great, it’s the only subscription I’ve never questioned.
Eh, I kinda think the problem started with cable news not social media.
I still blame MTV for starting the reality TV trend.
Ugh I hate that I agree with this because teenage me loved The Real World and Road Rules so much, but yeah there’s no way we could have known how that would accelerate the decline in the specific way that it has
it was always like that, what is blud talking about
Not before Reagan
Yeah until Reagan it was just normal factual news (don’t laugh!) and definitely no segregation, wars, red scare campaigns, random ass moral panics that news would help narrativize
I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I’m saying getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine was when it went mask-off
I think it’s more than just so you won’t notice. It’s more like so you take out the anger of things going up on whatever the news has fed you.
It’s never been that look at old news stations panic about the “crime crisis” or even late 19th century American newspapers about natives or even the “Chinese stealing” jobs.
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/
Daily covers US politics with weekly recaps.
that’s what happens when billionaires buy the news and need it to turn a profit anyway
