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That's because you've had years of consuming media that blames everything on billionaires.
by philipallstar 2mo ago
That's because you've had years of consuming media that blames everything on billionaires.
- Alive-in-2025 2mo agowell, plus the evidence of billionaires pushing for things that aren't that great after all. Maybe good for their bankroll though.
- CursedSilicon 2mo agoAh, yes. The media. Famously the voice of the proletariat and the oppressed Walter Lippmann is spinning in his grave
- hunterpayne 2mo agoFor reference, Walter Lippmann is the guy from the NYT who covered up the Holodomor in Ukraine (1930s) in the west as well as Stalin's gulags and purges. I wouldn't call him the voice of the proletariat in any way. He was the voice of the Stalinist in the west and the term tankie was invented for him and people like him.
- CursedSilicon 2mo agoThat's a strange take. But okay He also wrote the book "Public Opinion" in 1922 [1] which explained how the US mass media apparatus could be used to influence the common man. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book)
- Paradigma11 2mo agoFor veracity, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty was that guy.
- breezybottom 2mo agoBillionaires own the media. Why would they blame themselves?