Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Jun 24 sure is funny how right wing billionaires keep buying up media outlets, converting them into right wing propaganda mills, and driving journalists into exile
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How is it that there isn't a single rich D using their FU money to collect all these people and make an amazing news outlet?
If only there was a Dem PAC dedicated to building liberal media infrastructure rather than a 500 million dollar ad campaigns on cable TV shows with viewerships of around ~1 million
might be handy for Democrats to develop literally ANY coherent party media reform policy sometime this century
Coincidence. threadreaderapp.com/thread/14425...
It’s not like we didn’t know their intentions. She told us, but she is black and has a distinctive laugh. They chose Barabbas.
Funny how?
Sinclair, NewsCorp, billionaire fascists, Bezos - your national and now local media is being strangled by righwting billionaire money and fact-based journalism is being pushed out in favor of clickbait and dubious irrelevant crap. support indie media
something that irritates me to no end is that same people could but these outlets but they refuse and they get snapped up by fascists
Funny “ha, ha” or funny “weird”?
I read the Sun and News American going back to 1974. I canceled my sub as soon as Sinclair bought the Sun. Fuck those guys
Time to find the real news away from the historic mainstream sources. Their wells of information have been poisoned.
dismantling sinclair should be a high priority project for democratizing this country
Thank you for your prior dedication to truth.
We can greatly influence this. Stop readership or viewership and advertisers won't advertise. Loss of revenue. Don't support these billionaires.
This vulnerability started with allowing social media companies to steal the output of journalistic outlets for their own ad rev. That was the fatal blow. This is the writhing. Now propagandists buy the uniform of credibility for pennies and wear it until it is finally useless.
Not funny, intentional
Bound to happen. Reactionary politics are natural outgrowths of sadomasochism. They want money because money is power. Money allows you to own things. And ownership allows for domination. The logical end will always be a spiritual death for the institution, and often literal ones for people.
He could have stayed and kept writing 1/2 Truths - but he’s a Patriot! 🇺🇸
Not very funny ha ha but definitely funny peculiar. They're not investing money to make more money, they're investing money to make more fascism.
Why is anyone of integrity still on X?
Corporate media is a dead end for anybody with a soul Real journalists - find your voice elsewhere Real Americans - do not give any of these corporate owned fascist megaphones money. NYT - fuck off WaPo - fuck off further