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First time it’s happening so frequently that I’m aware of. 🤷‍♂️ I’m under 40, don’t live in America. I don’t blame myself for not knowing. Seems like I should be ashamed for not knowing though, or?

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Doomsider@lemmy.world

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1 month ago

Throughout history wealthy people have always owned all media outlets and used them as their own private propaganda outlets.

I suppose you might believe in the “free” press or the “independent” media. Well those are just concepts and not reality.

I would suggest watching Good Night, and Good Luck to start to see modern journalism for what it is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Night,_and_Good_Luck

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Victor@lemmy.world

2 points

1 month ago

I suppose you might believe in the “free” press or the “independent” media. Well those are just concepts and not reality.

🤷‍♂️ I don’t know what I believe in regarding those concepts. In Sweden we have something called the “Public Service”, which is tax funded media which is supposed to be independent from anything. I trust it. It definitely does a lot of criticism against the government when warranted, in the news and comedy programs and wherever.

But I’ll keep those movies(?) in mind and maybe watch them some time. Sounds educational!

Either way, it doesn’t sound great that power hungry billionaires are right now buying up news sources and social media platforms. I don’t care whether it’s happened before or not, I care that it’s happening right now. 👍

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Doomsider@lemmy.world

2 points

1 month ago

The US spends the least out of just about every country for public media.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/01/do-countries-with-better-funded-public-media-also-have-healthier-democracies-of-course-they-do/

I think your disinterest in the history of media ownership will probably prevent you from understanding what is happening now. Trying to understand what is happening without context of the past is not a good strategy.

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Victor@lemmy.world

1 point

23 days ago

your disinterest in the history of media ownership will probably prevent you from understanding what is happening now

You’re probably correct! I had a quick skim of that link and I couldn’t do it.

Is it that complicated though? Oligarchs are buying up media, just as they have done before, but that last part doesn’t really matter to me. Should it matter? The issue for me is what they are doing to it at the moment, in this era. In my era.

It’s troubling, really. A country so fixated on democracy (as they should be), sure has very limited access to unbiased news outlets. And the fact that it’s the most powerful country in the world makes it worse. 🥲

[Sorry if I’m incoherent right now, I’m on very little sleep typing this out…]

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