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OANN might as well be a high school newspaper at this point.
by platevoltage 1y ago
OANN might as well be a high school newspaper at this point.
- mulmen 1y agoHey I was on the staff of my high school newspaper and we took our journalism very seriously.
- platevoltage 1y agohaha I have no doubt. I was mostly speaking about distribution, not quality. I'm sure a middle school newspaper would have more journalistic integrity than OANN.
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- dragonwriter 1y agoIt might as well be an official propaganda arm of the dominant faction in the increasingly authoritarian regime of the most powerful nation on the planet, which is a bit more significant than a high school paper.
- platevoltage 1y agoI mean, that was hyperbole, but OANN isn’t even available on Comcast as far as I’m aware. I would LOVE it if this was the Republican party’s main propaganda arm.
- dragonwriter 1y agoWell, I said “an”, not “the main” for a reason, but OAN is: (1) after having been dropped form all major cable and satellite carriers, coming back since Trump came to power (picked up by Spectrum earlier this year, and given the administration openly favoring them and using licensing pressure to shape carrier decisions, that seems likely to spread) [0], and (2) under the Trump Administration, the source of news coverage for the literal government media (Voice of America.) [1] [0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/herring-networks-announces-multi-year-content-carriage-agreement-with-spectrum-302454759.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/herring-networks-an... [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/voice-america-one-america-news https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/voice-americ...