I guess the sad thing about all this is the realization that not only is the media not a defense against fascism but with its current incentive structures in 2024 is actively helping to usher it in
Not that all of this is new but Billionaires own newspapers, they own social media, they own the way we search for news online, and in every arena they’re simply enforcing their interests, at some point Peter Theil will get control of Wikipedia and that’ll go to shit…anyways videogames are good
Feel like Trump namedropping Snopes was a good indication of how the rightwing is going to use the husk of American journalism for their own ends, like how Newsweek is just a bonkers made up thing nowadays but sounds legit because people remember it being a real magazine
2015-2016 MAGA types: oh Snopes is left wing propaganda
those same fuckwits in 2024: see SEEEE Snopes just told the truth about the “very fine people” lie the Dems keep bringing up
(this isn’t hyperbole; I know someone who’s said both of these things)
Well yea. They saw how well FauX N00z & fuckwad Rupert did in getting Brexit across the line, so now they're doing it here
Seriously, go take a look at the media coverage in the UK - it may as well be owned by Moscow & Rupert outright
It’s incredible to me that “politician lies” is put on the exact same rhetorical media scorecard as matters of policy and not discussed as some other thing entirely.
