Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ...
by hh3k0 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:43PM
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“The beauty of the system, however, is that such dissent and inconvenient information are kept within bounds and at the margins, so that while their presence shows that the system is not monolithic, they are not large enough to interfere unduly with the domination of the official agenda.” Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ...
by duxup on Sunday February 14, 2021 @07:10PM
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Is that happening?
I was really hoping someone was actually checking beyond quotes, sentiment, and their own topics not getting enough airtime.
Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ...
by hh3k0 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @07:29PM
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I take it that you didn't follow the Democratic Primaries? The mass hysteria that ensued on all channels when Bernie Sanders was leading the race, to be specific.
Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ...
by duxup on Sunday February 14, 2021 @10:51PM
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I didn't see any mass hysteria.
Re:These 15 Billionaires Own America's News Media Companies ...
by hh3k0 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:27PM
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Seth Meyers is one of the few who addressed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjj7VJpqy1w. And that's just a minuscule fraction, the reporting was downright shameful across the board. You'd watch 10 channels and read 10 newspapers reporting on Sanders and you'd feel as if it was 1 channel and 1 paper. One has to wonder if that was due to Bernie proposing to break up internet and cable titans and to introduce a wealth tax. The cable titans own the majority of channels, after all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cross-ownership_in_the_U.... And the newspaper owning billionaires probably didn't like the wealth tax idea too much either.