Pierre Poilievre Is afraid of CBC because it keeps Canadians informed on a wide range of topics and informed people are harder to control.
So many people around me don’t trust cbc. And that’s ok, never completely trust a media outlet. But then they go regurgitate whatever fox News says like it’s the fucking Bible.
That’s how it started in the US in 2015. It’s like our parents became different people overnight.
American here, if you stop listening to them then you loose track of how bat shit insane the lies they’re spewing are. They’ll drive a wedge between you and their audience and you won’t even know why. It will be because they’ll prime their audience against you at every turn. Corporate media and alternative media are always working their way into the minds of your family and friends. Trust me. You can’t ignore them. That’s how I lost family.
I agree with you and @[email protected] about the importance of keeping updated. Just remember you don’t have to be the one watching it. There are really great pundits out there who are already doing the hard work of swallowing the crap and serving it up in a decent format. The good ones usually include the hypocrisy, rebuttals, reality of the situation, all sorts of knowledge to share with friends and loved ones (even better if you find a good segment to start them on new news media). (I can provide some creators, but there’s a lot out there you can probably find)
I honestly don’t know how effective any of this is though with the constant swallowing of propaganda. You can dispute one claim with facts, but then they watch an afternoon and get 5 more. I think steering them clear of the bullshit is the most important thing but it’s not just news sources but algorithms on every platform that keeps them locked into that mindset. Laws need to be passed for news/media organizations to make them responsible for the things they report if we want to actually try and reach citizens instead of corpomedia.
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The more people ignore then, the less ads revenue they make. If they become fringe then sure some people will lose friends and family to them, but way less than if everyone keeps checking them “just in case”.
Nah, bro. Never block or ignore enemy media. Because if you do, you don’t know what the enemy is thinking. Keep your enemies close.
Yes, make sure they keep their ad revenues, that will teach them!
So you pass around the text or screenshots. They don’t get clicks or view metrics and you don’t become uninformed.
You still need people who went and checked it to pass out around.
Totally fair, but maybe we advocate for pirating it? I agree with you it’s important to know what the enemy is thinking etc (also, in less apocalyptic terms, I agree with JSM “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.”) but I don’t wouldn’t advocate people pay and support those American companies.
