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TwilightZone
(23,384 posts)We repeat and amplify this kind of stuff all the time. Not everything is equally deserving of outrage or attention.
Fiendish Thingy
(14,499 posts)The one who announced he would manufacture, then manufactured, the plagiarism “scandal” against the president of Harvard, as a means to eliminating DEI policies in higher education.
keep_left
(1,663 posts)...and "Critical Race Theory" being taught to grade-school children, a completely fraudulent notion. And as seen in the cartoon (art imitates life), Rufo's garbage was spread through the news media largely uncritically. 
keep_left
(1,663 posts)...the ever-increasing size of the corporate ownership of media companies is problematic, of course. And even Amy Goodman had her struggles with an entirely non-profit structure (Pacifica Foundation), which at certain points in its history was infiltrated by spooks (and the spook-adjacent).
Years ago, I heard a talk given by Robert McChesney, a professor and media critic from UIUC, in which he discussed post-WWII history. After the Allied victory, one of the very first tasks was to break up the media monopolies of the Axis powers; the Allies' reasoning was that media concentration directly aids and abets fascism. McChesney further argued that we need a taste of our own medicine. And indeed, you can easily see how fascism is aided and abetted; simply observe all the screen time given to Trump, MTG, Boebert, etc. The more outrageous they become, the more screen time they get. It serves to normalize truly crazy ideas.
LetMyPeopleVote
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