“Allowed” is a strange way to say “actively promoted and hoped for”.
Corporate media profits off of all this bullshit.
thebondsman on
When 6 or 7 billionaires own all the media and social media platforms it was pretty easy for them.
bubba80118 on
“Sane-washing” should have been the 2024 word of the year.
DanielGoon69 on
Detective Drebin is the hero we never deserved.
Young_Denver on
C O M P L I C I T
Y0___0Y on
The media is a reflection of what everyday people want to watch, listen to and read.
Everything they put out is put out because there is a public demand for it.
They are a reflection of the people. It’s the American people who did this. And regular everyday people never get blamed in political discourse. They are blameless. A politician lied to them, or the media misled them.
Well at this fucking point, regular every day people should know better.
Trump attacked congress half a decade ago. Anyone who voted Trump after that wasn’t victimized by the media or social media or corporations or politicians. They did something stupid because they’re stupid people.
sereneandeternal on
Prime example of their gaslighting (also aged like milk):
I don’t watch cable news for the same reason I don’t drink out of my toilet…
Lonely-Mountain9047 on
Sinclair, next Star, and Fox News thanks media…
Evelyn-Bankhead on
Maybe if the voters were smarter than a turnip
Exciting-Squash4444 on
Trump is a rapist
DerpUrself69 on
Allowed it? The media fucking facilitated it!
Ignoble66 on
jake tapper specifically
Which_Yesterday on
And the judiciary, and the political system as a whole, and the society…
derpferd on
Facts. Though like the Democratic party, I do wonder that the media is engaged in a game of pretend.
The democratic party pretends that it is the appealing alternative to the GOP, does little within their power to fight a GOP that long ago took its gloves off.
But it’s enough to offer the illusion of choice and thus the illusion of democracy, thus placating the public into assuming that there is still a degree of normalcy at work.
The media (and by this I mean CNN, MSNBC and their ilk) pretend to be a voice of reason in a climate of brazen awful nonsense, but then does little to meaningfully challenge the rise of awfulness, instead giving nonsense a platform to normalise itself.
segascream on
While I don’t disagree, it’s also worth pointing out that they never would have been able to in a world where Reagan hadn’t had the Fairness Doctrine dismantled. This may or may not have been the intended result of that decision, but it was a decision that allowed for the current media landscape, and when the government saw political discourse going off the rails after, they never so much as blinked at the possibility of trying to re-regulate the media.
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“Allowed” is a strange way to say “actively promoted and hoped for”.
Corporate media profits off of all this bullshit.
When 6 or 7 billionaires own all the media and social media platforms it was pretty easy for them.
“Sane-washing” should have been the 2024 word of the year.
Detective Drebin is the hero we never deserved.
C O M P L I C I T
The media is a reflection of what everyday people want to watch, listen to and read.
Everything they put out is put out because there is a public demand for it.
They are a reflection of the people. It’s the American people who did this. And regular everyday people never get blamed in political discourse. They are blameless. A politician lied to them, or the media misled them.
Well at this fucking point, regular every day people should know better.
Trump attacked congress half a decade ago. Anyone who voted Trump after that wasn’t victimized by the media or social media or corporations or politicians. They did something stupid because they’re stupid people.
Prime example of their gaslighting (also aged like milk):
https://preview.redd.it/khw1vr84cysf1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cad594efac2d182d31e2b03a54f7afb44a9f8f56
Not the first time the press has chosen fascism…
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Newspaper_Axis.html?id=h5ldEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
I don’t watch cable news for the same reason I don’t drink out of my toilet…
Sinclair, next Star, and Fox News thanks media…
Maybe if the voters were smarter than a turnip
Trump is a rapist
Allowed it? The media fucking facilitated it!
jake tapper specifically
And the judiciary, and the political system as a whole, and the society…
Facts. Though like the Democratic party, I do wonder that the media is engaged in a game of pretend.
The democratic party pretends that it is the appealing alternative to the GOP, does little within their power to fight a GOP that long ago took its gloves off.
But it’s enough to offer the illusion of choice and thus the illusion of democracy, thus placating the public into assuming that there is still a degree of normalcy at work.
The media (and by this I mean CNN, MSNBC and their ilk) pretend to be a voice of reason in a climate of brazen awful nonsense, but then does little to meaningfully challenge the rise of awfulness, instead giving nonsense a platform to normalise itself.
While I don’t disagree, it’s also worth pointing out that they never would have been able to in a world where Reagan hadn’t had the Fairness Doctrine dismantled. This may or may not have been the intended result of that decision, but it was a decision that allowed for the current media landscape, and when the government saw political discourse going off the rails after, they never so much as blinked at the possibility of trying to re-regulate the media.
They made that happen.