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> One would expect that system would learn and change The system did learn and change: they got a lot better at exploiting it. The effort to stack the Supreme
by pjc50 6mo ago
> One would expect that system would learn and change
The system did learn and change: they got a lot better at exploiting it. The effort to stack the Supreme Court with Republican partisans took decades.
- raisedbyninjas 6mo agoThe system also learned to stop pressuring Republicans to resign in shame. Roger Ailes was a media consultant and advisor to Nixon. Ailes vision of a TV network that pushed a pro-GOP administration message under the banner of unbiased journalism manifested in Television News Incorporated and later Fox News. He viewed television as a useful tool to reach the lazy masses who preferred not to read the news or perform their own critical thinking.
- bonesss 6mo agoIIRC Ailes believed that if the had some of the press with them that Nixon could have survived Watergate. And now we get near-daily “worse than Watergate” headlines and facts…