Submitted by Missing_Trillions t3_11cflhy in Documentaries
Mainstream Media Corporate Media
That is the same thing. The mainstream of culture, discourse and politics is driven by the owners.
People need to remember that back during the labour movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries the workers and unions had to start their own newspapers to combat the propaganda of the bosses.
After WW2 people forgot that its a class struggle and by Watergate people are celebrating a media that was more concerned with documenting the attacks by one political elite on another than the enormous class war waged on the new left and black power and anti war and American Indian movement by the American intelligence community ie. COINTELPRO.
It's only become worse but decades ago Noam Chomsky wrote and lectured about this extensively.
Is there anything the people running these media companies have in common?
Money and the willingness to step on you to get it.
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Class, upbringing, a material incentive to maintain the system that gives them power.
You mean they CONSERVE it:)?
Neo-liberalism would like a word.
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Interlocking board memberships with other large, powerful corporations, and an abiding interest that the ruling class, to which they belong, continues to rule. So, for instance, we don't see anywhere near as many stories about how much influence the ruling class has in, and over, our government, to insure that the US continues to be a place where the rich can grow richer, while everybody else doesn't.
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They're capital.
Surprisingly, politics
Rupert Murdoch
Other than being part of the ruling class that benefit from the continuation of the status quo?
yes. but nothing you are allowed to notice.
Should look into their bloodline and religion
Now look up who owns Reddit
Who do you mean?
^^^
Getting harder and harder to tell the difference
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You say that as though it's a new sentiment.
Yes and: most corporate media is partisan agnostic. They protect the status quo and hierarchy. aka The Radical Centrists.
Fox News, aka GOP.tv, a notable exception, are unapologetically right wing populists. Meaning alliance of upper and lower classes against the middle.
The main (major) problem with FOX news is it isn't based on fact, it is 90%+ conservative propaganda. All of their major contributors have a truthful rating in the single digits, that's not opinion but fact!
Where I don’t disagree with you about Fox you seem to be giving cnn, msnbc and all the other networks that do the exact same thing only with a different narrative a hard pass. And who might be determining this “truthful rating?” I’m sure they are just regular people with zero political ties.
Fox always lags far behind, regarding fact-checking. That is hugely more true about their "news-entertainment" programs, which are propaganda, pure and simple.
Yup, the "left" does it too. But, the right has made a science of it, and taken it to heights hitherto undreamt of. But, you have your what-about-ism to protect you from really seeing that.
The fact is, it's ALL owned by the rich, and both sides keep any information about how our country really runs out of the limelight.
You literally said it yourself, it’s all owned by the rich and they purposefully don’t tell us the truth. You are literally agreeing with my statement and then claiming I’m protecting my what-about-ism like I was wrong.
Not at all, the other networks don't get the facts correct all the time but they do it at a much higher rate than FOX, OAN and News Max who basically lie to their viewers at as close to 100% as they can get.
Funny how there are people dumb enough to actually believe this. Lmao
The really funny part is how many people who watch FOX, OAN or Newsmax actually believe what they are being told and are either too stupid or too ignorant to realize they are being lied to and conned at the same time!
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You do realize that Trump was a pathological liar don't you? Also Trump did nothing for you or the country unless you're in the top 1%. He also sold out our intelligence community to Crazy Vlad Putin in Helsinki, ripped off the country by forcing secret service and other govt. officials to stay at his hotels and inflated prices and also added $7 trillion to the national debt. Just to name a few. He also opened the door to elect other village idiots like Boebert, Greene and Soros into Congress. Soros is cut out of the same cloth as Trump and where do you think that lyingidiot Soros learned his lessons of constant lying from? Donald Trump!
I meant Santos or whatever name he's going by this week. Not Soros. Anyone on Reddit know why I lost my edit feature? Did I hit something that took it away?
You likely don't mean Soros, buddy
You leave out the power of doubt. What we truly need is drastic change. That scares people, so anything that casts doubt on how much change we need makes it easier for people to think it's always been this way, and it always will.
Lmao
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