WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American people wouldn’t notice them. “Don’t make any sudden movements, or they’ll spot us,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said out of the corner of his mouth, […]
This is as close to factual reporting as we’re likely to see for a minute. This isn’t satire; it’s sociopolitical commentary.
Don’t shit on journalists. If the media is your enemy then you’re no better than MAGA.
I have no issue with journalists, but you’re not going to find them on an entertainment channel. The Washington Post was rubber stamping war profiteering before Bozos bought them.
The majority of outlets are owned by an ever concentrating number of billionaires. Blind trust is the last thing you want to give them.
Random counterexample, John Oliver probably agrees more with you than me and he runs a comedy news show on HBO. There are tons of people just like him.
The fact that Washington Posts’ Harris endorsement which Bezos prevented from printing was immediately leaked means the editors and owners do not have complete control of the narrative.
Bro… John Oliver is a comedian and doesn’t consider himself a journalist: https://www.npr.org/2016/02/12/466569047/is-john-olivers-show-journalism-he-says-the-answer-is-simple-no
He’s also not a billionaire nor own the show or the network it’s on.
Like you’re agreeing that the media outlet is under orders to shape the narrative… But then somehow take the individual journalists leaking things they were ordered not to as some perverse reason to still trust the outlet?
I’m not even sure what you’re trying to say as your defense of the American press is a British comedian and an admission a billionaire shapes WaPo’s narratives.
You are all over the map.
When corporate media is primarily concerned with profit. That’s not free press.
Which isn’t to say journalists don’t have a right to earn a living. But rather that shareholder profits have way more influence in what gets published then they should.
What you fail to realize is accruement of capital of many opposing businesses isn’t the enemy at this juncture.
The unchecked power of an elected fascist dismantling democracy is.
There is no all consuming hivemind that connects to people more as their wealth increases, they’re all competing against one another.
Elon Musk’s media machine and unchecked wealth is a large part of why we are even having this conversation.
And in 2016 it was Fox News.
And while you are correct, that businesses are competing against each other and there is no overarching hive mind. They also have an incentive to compete against the working class. And in that regard, many corporations are aligned.
Folks can compete with each other and still have common interest. And in a capitalist society, the common interest of capitalists is to suppress and oppress the working class.
Edit: also, I didn’t down vote you for your opinion. I down voted you for presuming to know what I realize and what I don’t. Because frankly, it felt rude.
The way I see it is they’ve got more incentive as rational actors to promote security and equality. What is interfering with that is irrational primal instincts that make some of them want to hoard wealth and attack those who are physically or culturally different from them.
More billionaires supported a candidate who promised to tax their unrealized gains than they sided with Trump. Trumps billionaires just happened to capture enough social media to tilt things his way.
Always has been