it's odd to see the people who can accurately assess Bari Weiss isn't a good journalist and failed upward into her role as chief brunchlord, but can't take the additional leap to realize this is part of an active plot by extraction class media ownership to actively destroy journalism and consensus
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this is, so we're clear, the exact path the media took in countries like Hungary and Russia that stumbled ass first into permanent autocratic rule
anyway, the lesson for journalists is: don't platform or interview anybody that might upset the thin-skinned president
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behold, once again, how corporate media ownership and public interest journalism foundationally cannot be, and will never be, properly aligned
it's why we need publicly-owned and funded media, which Carr is also trying to destroy with sham investigations
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The Associated Press has an excellent story about how FCC boss Brendan Carr bullied a Bay Area AM radio station for the crime of reporting on local ICE activity.
facing existential collapse it immediately demoted journalists end replaced political coverage with safe public interest cack:
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as an aside I think it would be nifty if the few remaining journalists we do have could make it clear these fake journalists are being funded by billionaires (and in some cases foreign intelligence) to divide the electorate and destroy informed consensus
oh no all the fake journalists funded by billionaires to divide the electorate and destroy informed consensus are now fighting with each other
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so much winning
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oh look, it's the company now in charge of ensuring that TikTok meets U.S. privacy standards
I'm sure the regulators the Trump administration has (checks notes) completely fucking lobotomized will make sure they're doing a really good job of that!
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