• @[email protected]
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        111 month ago

        And they were both telling the unvarnished truth for once. Billionaire-owned media aren’t reliable sources for news.

        • Flying Squid
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          91 month ago

          Absolutely. It all started with Ted Turner and CNN. He very obviously viewed news as entertainment. Every story, no matter how small, was announced as Breaking News.

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        1 month ago

        This is a bit of the classic “both sides being the same” argument. The first article you linked even calls it out.

        In the Fox case, Carlson was presenting his own narrative, not even one extrapolating from known facts.

        Maddow was like “hey this journalist is working for Putin and writing for OAN. OAN is Russian propaganda.” When in reality, the journalist in question wrote for Sputnik News, which is affiliated with the Russian government. Granted it is a bit of a stretch to say all of OAN is Russian propaganda.

        Carlson, on the other hand, just completely made up a story about Karen McDougal blackmailing Trump. A completely made up story.

        So yeah, I wouldn’t go saying both sides are the same here.

        • Flying Squid
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          11 month ago

          There is no “both sides” in for-profit news media. There’s only corporations figuring out which the most profitable demographic for them is.