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Noam Chomsky has some excellent books and talks on YouTube about how dissident voices are silenced in mainstream media exactly like this. You'll only get hired
by mkolodny 6y ago
Noam Chomsky has some excellent books and talks on YouTube about how dissident voices are silenced in mainstream media exactly like this. You'll only get hired as a journalist if you seem to agree with the political views of owners and advertisers. And if you publish a political view that owners or advertisers have a problem with, you get fired.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12617.Manufacturing_Consent https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12617.Manufacturing_Cons...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194805.Understanding_Power https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194805.Understanding_Pow...
- WesolyKubeczek 6y ago"But they are private companies and free speech doesn't apply to them, they can ban any kind of speech they don't like!" — typical Hackernews in any other thread about speech being suppressed.
- tim333 6y agoI think it's more that free speech laws mean private companies can say/output what they like within reason. Even if that includes supporting Israel or dropping Donald or whatever.