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by ur-whale
1750 days ago
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After decades of mainstream media abusing their position instead of being an actual balancing fourth power, the chicken are coming home to roost. For me the realization that the mainstream media was not fulfilling their role anymore was: - following 9/11, when *none* of the mainstream outlets had the guts to question the decisions to go into Iraq and all aligned to sing 'hail to the chief' in base fear of being called anti-american.
- in 2005, when the danish mohamed cartoons crisis came and went and most the American main media cowardly caved in to pressure and refused to publish the cartoons [1] [2] [3]
I don't believe there is anything they can do to reverse the trend. And to be honest, I really won't be sad to see them die the horrible death they deserve.What worries me is that we do indeed need some social apparatus than can speak truth to power, and there isn't anything yet that I can see that will provide that: the internet style wannabe replacement (blogs, YT pundits, etc...) are just too diluted for that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_that_reprin... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cartoons_that_Shook_the_Wo... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_OR3b-97Ds |
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