• deaconblue
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    3910 months ago

    Just one of the many benefits of letting the companies that own the media report on themselves. Worst of men, worst of reasons, etc

  • @[email protected]
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    10 months ago

    I can’t say I’m surprised. Anyone else remember the deafening silence from cable news outlets like MSNBC about Net Neutrality? Who could’ve guessed that letting Comcast buy NBC/Universal would lead to really fucking awful outcomes. 🙄

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      Out of all of the horribly damaging things that happened when W Bush was president, weakening of the media ownership rules was the most damaging. It’s responsible for our current political climate and decline into fascism (if that comes to be).

  • The dogspaw
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    1810 months ago

    Wow big media companies are against the strike how strange Surprised Pikachu

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    710 months ago

    If news anchors were threatened with being replaced with AI vtubers I wonder how happy they would be then to do whatever the teleprompter tells them to do.

  • xuxebiko
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    510 months ago

    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you,” - Nicholas Klein, trade union activist.