• Optional@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    No, SHE didn’t.

    Corporate News Fucked Up Again.

    For some reason all the headlines about this seem to be about what the DNC or the Harris campaign should have done.

    • very_well_lost@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      I don’t think it’s fair to just dump all the blame on corporate media. The news media landscape hasn’t meaningfully changed since Trump was first elected, but despite having 8 years to formulate a sound media strategy the DNC is still campaigning like it’s 2015.

      Like, sure, the Democrats are running with a handicap in the current media landscape, but that isn’t new, and it’s the responsibility of the DNC to figure out how to overcome that disadvantage — a task that the current leadership has proven itself woefully incompetent at.

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        9 hours ago

        Yeah but like, it’s a bit crazy that the right has: Fox News, OAN, NewsMax (or whatever it’s called), Joe Rogan Experience (gateway drug/sanewashing), Benny Shaps network, X, Truth Social, Prager U, Tim’s Pool, right wing radio, and lots of other smaller shops and they all seem to claim corporate media is the worst and they’re all here to tell you the truth.

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          9 hours ago

          What’s crazier is when WB bought CNN and literally said Faux News was the plan for what they wanted to do, and loads of journalists resigned from CNN over the changes…

          People still think any media organization owned by billionaires has a chance to be “on the left”.

          If a billionaire (or group of billionaires) own a media company, it’s only to manipulate people into blaming anyone except billionaires for the current state of affairs.

          Like, it’s great you’re realizing it now…

          But the merger was two years ago…

          https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column

          None of this was done in the shadows, they came right out and said it. Publicly and repeatedly.

          What you want to happen is happening. The Dems are getting their own versions of that shit.

          The problem is they’re getting it for the same reason: to trick us into voting against our own interests.

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          8 hours ago

          Don’t forget Sinclair Broadcasting. They’re the local branch of the right wing propaganda machine.

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      5 hours ago

      Corporate news is not the guardrails of democracy. Ultimately, the people are responsible.

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      9 hours ago

      For some reason all the headlines about this seem to be about what the DNC or the Harris campaign should have done.

      Wait…

      You’re surprised people are blaming the candidate that lost and her campaign team that was paid millions of dollars and spent over a billion and still couldn’t beat trump?

      Why?

      What is the logic where the people whose literal job was to win the election, aren’t at fault for losing the election?

      And I’m scared to even ask, but:

      Since you think they’re blameless, does that mean you really want us to do the same shit in four years again and hope this time screaming at people will be effective?

      Cuz buddy, it’s never been effective at anything besides letting some shitty republican into the Oval