Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim

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Recommends jefflombardjr · 2018-10 · on “Brave New World Revisited, Revisited”

This article does a good job of drawing parallels between the book and reality in a short amount of time. I feel like the article is just scratching the surface though. > Television was transforming the news into a rapid and proliferating series of images, a form of entertainment that prized ‘the unreal’ and the ‘more or less totally irrelevant’. You can contest facts, he said, but not images. Noam Chomsky has some excellent work in this area. It can be very very dry reading, but very informative. Check out manufacturing consent [LINK] In the same vein and much more entertaining is this video that compares local news channels: [this video]

Cites scarejunba · 2019-07 · on “California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure”

Well, amusing that people thought this was wholly irrelevant. Here's what I was thinking of when I said that: [this video] Also amusing that there are two confident opposite opinions in response.

Cites PavlovsCat · 2019-08 · on “GDPR is an identity thief's dream ticket to Europeans' data”

> The way you change a corporation is by not patronizing it until it changes. Unless it's a monopoly or companies colluding, which is prevented by enforcement of regulation, not any goodness on behalf of corporations. And unless it's a conglomorate, in which case, "just switch the channel" can sound kind of hollow. E.g. [this video] In theory, we could change companies by abstaining, if they magically knew why you don't patronize them, and took that into acount. In practice we now have fewer consumer OS than in the 90s, the return of walled gardens, and people who avoid them don't affect anything, the walled gardens care less about what people want, than what the walled gardens want. > The proble

Cites putlake · 2021-07 · on “Six corporations control 90% of America media”

Examples for what happens when media ownership is concentrated: [this video] And this one I'm not sure if it's just good PR by Amazon or laziness by media outlets or both: [LINK]

Cites babycake · 2022-08 · on “How workplace bullying went remote”

I don't think people are dumb though. Most working class people see through the BS because they live it everyday. I'm not talking about just us, I'm talking retail, waiters, miners, etc. They've seen way more shit with their bosses and life experiences to know what's what. I don't think it's infantilizing. I think since these major news sites are owned and backed by the rich, they have certain messages they want to push. And one idea they don't want people to know about is worker organization. The rich all have a vested interest to not mention it at all and instead want us to use their rigged process to resolve issues. Here's an interesting video that shows every news station saying the exac

Cites lordfrito · 2022-12 · on “FTX’s Collapse Was a Crime, Not an Accident”

This was great thanks... Also there's this [1], which just boggles my mind. I can't make sense of this level of centralized message control and dissemination. It's straight out of 1984. It's hard to believe "the media" (whoever "they" are) has an agenda... it's tinfoil hat stuff.. Usually I write it off as emergent behavior of collective groups of humans trying to make $$$ from clicks, standard selfish behavior + time, leading to a race towards the bottom that looks like this. But watching those clip segments it's pretty clear there's a story/narrative being pitched by someone with the leverage to do so. Is this propaganda? What is propaganda? How can I recognize it? Is everything propaganda

Critical jonhohle · 2020-05 · on “2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners”

* CBS has recently been caught fabricating lines at a drive through testing facility in Michigan * Nicholas Sandmann * “Experts generally agree that N95 masks have little value in the community.” * Local “news” stories that are effectively infomercials * [this video] * allegedly CNN removing the Larry King episode from Google Play with a call from Tara Reade’s mother * implicitly or explicitly suggesting unrelated archive footage represents the story being reported (Italian hospital footage in a story about New York hospitals, firing range footage presented as foreign conflict) * the my pillow guy, who retooled to support health workers being railroaded simply for standing next to Trump * the sud

Critical cmroanirgo · 2020-06 · on “I Am Deleting the Blog”

And there's the rub. What is "quality investigative reporting" in an objective sense, when most of the MSM outlets are owned by oligarchs, or simply "toe the line"? In theory I would gladly support the theory of "quality investigative reporting", but the reality is a propagandist machine where opinion pieces replaces actual unbiased, adjective-free objective news. Some examples of "oligarch news": [LINK] [this video] As a former developer who worked closely on Thomson Reuters News feed (in the 00's), I've seen how there is almost zero fact checking for the information that appears on news feeds. Instead, news outlets trust the 'upstream' feeds and then quote the reports verbatim. To be fair, ther