• downpunxx@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    the fact this isn’t front page photo in every newspaper in the country tells you precisely how much the media wants the horserace, and not the best outcome for democracy. the fact trump keeps saying there’s “88,000” missing illegal aliens during bidens admin so he can keep repeating the number 88 over and over and over again, and THAT is not front page news how the presumptive Republican nominee for President is coding neo nazi slogans into his speeches says everything about how much the media wants the horserace, and not the best outcome for the democracy,

    there are some righteous journalists, there are some righteous media outlets, but they are too few and far between to drown out the incessant “both side” fucking nonsense which will see fascists come to power, and end their freedom of the press. the owners, and shareholders of these media outlets trade on the immediate eyeballs they can leverage into short advertising revenue

    once the fascists take power and start curtailing these media companies rights to free press, they’ll sell out, or simply abandon them, to go hide behind their walled communities, safe from the ruin they will have facilitated in the ruination our best effort egalitarian secular democracy

    and so it goes

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      5 months ago

      What media companies are you talking about? You mention there are some righteous ones but they’re too few and far between. All of the other ones are owned by like 5 right wing billionaires. Those few and far between ones are all we have.

    • SOMETHINGSWRONG@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      It’s pretty interesting how you somehow turned this into a both sides hyperbole.

      So you go on this rant about how mainstream media has assisted the slide into fascism, how Democrats will be the savior or free speech and ethical journalism.

      I seem to have missed what the DNC have done to fight back against this slide into fascism for the past 50 years. In fact they actively helped Trump get elected because he’d be easier to beat.

      Can you explain what Democratic leaderships plan is to right the list and get this country functioning again?

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        5 months ago

        And here you come, saying they are both bad and we shouldn’t concentrate on Trump and instead “what about the democrats!”

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        5 months ago

        How do you mentally take rage about the current state of journalism actively ignoring and encouraging Republicans bad behavior to mean “both sides”?

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      5 months ago

      TBH the less I hear about Trump aside from his prison sentence, the better. He’s not POTUS, there are real issues to talk about.