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Snide Response: In Soviet Russia, media watches you! Substantive Response: Mass Produced Journalism, be it's consumption or production, is purely a therapeutic
by BaseS4 6y ago
Snide Response: In Soviet Russia, media watches you!
Substantive Response: Mass Produced Journalism, be it's consumption or production, is purely a therapeutic exercise for the vain and the neurotic. Actual Investigative Journalism is dangerous for the investigators.
The only thing keeping journalist outfits going is the monumental amount of blackmail they've accumulated since the dawn of the camera. We all get to suffer with the journalist's delusions of grandeur because they have footage of a Rothschild grandchild slumming it once.
- thisiscorrect 6y agoTo your latter point, the Jeffrey Epstein case was the first time I'd really considered kompromat on American politicians and other elite as a prime motivation for many of the decisions we see out of DC. Was that also an eye opener for others? Maybe it just reflects naivety or lack of imagination on my part.
- BaseS4 6y agoUnderstand why Bezos bought WaPo now? Big ol' CIA-authorized blackmail stash in their archives