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Agreed. It seems like billionaires are buying more and more of our means of communication. Makes it easier to control the narrative.

• kjkjadksj 2y ago
  Its harder today than it was. It used to be you had most of america watching Walter Cronkite or otherwise on three channels and a smattering of radio. You control those few levers you have the country. And indeed the country was remarkably well controlled without even being aware of its tight leash up until we saw counter culture emerge, through production of their own media and materials and grassroots distribution outside this existing national system in the 1960s. Many people are captured today by mass media but there are many more people in this space trying to cultivate their own cash crop of passive content cows. Makes it less efficient to break trough with more players to pay off for a unified narrative.
  • daveguy 2y ago
    At least mass media isn't a clown show like the Rogans and twitters. You can pretend that journalistic integrity doesn't exist (or didn't exist) with professional journalists. But it's obvious you're pushing a narrative. So have fun with your algorithmically designed opinions.
    • kjkjadksj 2y ago
      What narrative am I pushing if it is so obvious? If anything it is mere media literacy I am espousing. Is that so controversial a position these days? Scary times if so.
      • daveguy 2y ago
        Like I said, have fun with your algorithmically designed opinions. I'm going to stick with evidence based reporting and fact checking.