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I am with you, friend. On reddit's /r/politics, there was a heavy influx of Correct The Record shills, and now that the election is over, things have returned t
by treehau5 10y ago
I am with you, friend. On reddit's /r/politics, there was a heavy influx of Correct The Record shills, and now that the election is over, things have returned to relatively normal there. With Bezos controlling WaPo, I have no reason to believe things are not being manipulated here as well. The only thing, and maybe good, this election cycle has done was throw out the window the small shred of faith I had in fair and unbiased reporting in this country in critical moments. They throw a puff piece, or a good piece of journalism here and there on side topics, but when it comes to crunch time -- as shown by the WaPo days leading up to the Democratic Primaries, they unleash the full weight of their propaganda machine with no remorse.
The only thing I'll turn to these corrupt giants now is weather events. Can't slant those in any way. We need to break up the 6 corporations that control our media, ASAP.
- scholia 10y agoDiscrediting honest reporting has been the foundation of the whole alt-right approach to the media, and getting acceptance for the lies broadcast by sources such as Breitbart News and Drudge Report. In fact, it's essential to discredit honest reporting if your lies are going to get any traction. And, evidently, it has worked on you. Sadly, it's even worse than it sounds, because now even the alt-right websites can't tell the truth. For an interesting short piece about this, see the final section of "Donald Trump broke the conservative media" (1). Quote: One of the chief problems, Sykes (2) said, was that it had become impossible to prove to listeners that Trump was telling falsehoods because over the past several decades, the conservative news media had "basically eliminated any of the referees, the gatekeepers." "There's nobody," he lamented. "Let's say that Donald Trump basically makes whatever you want to say, whatever claim he wants to make. And everybody knows it's a falsehood. The big question of my audience, it is impossible for me to say that, 'By the way, you know it's false.' And they'll say, 'Why? I saw it on Allen B. West.' Or they'll say, 'I saw it on a Facebook page.' And I'll say, 'The New York Times did a fact check.' And they'll say, 'Oh, that's The New York Times. That's bulls---.' There's nobody — you can't go to anybody and say, 'Look, here are the facts.'" "And I have to say that's one of the disorienting realities of this political year. You can be in this alternative media reality and there's no way to break through it," Sykes continued. "And I swim upstream because if I don't say these things from some of these websites, then suddenly I have sold out. Then they'll ask what's wrong with me for not repeating these stories that I know not to be true." (1) http://uk.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-drudge-coulter-2016-8 http://uk.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-drudg... Edit/insert: (2) "Charlie Sykes, a popular conservative talk show host in Wisconsin"