• cerement@slrpnk.net
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    • anything owned by Rupert Murdoch
    • anything owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
    • anything affiliated with Fox News Media (ref. Rupert Murdoch)

    propaganda mouthpieces run by some dictator are a known factor whereas this list are trying to actively undermine the political process

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    There was a video a few years back of Sinclair(?) or something that had all the networks they owned say the same thing, and it was very dystopian.

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    News Corp. and The Daily Mail and General Trust seem pretty evil. (In fact, let’s just say every company that owns a UK tabloid is at least 80% evil.)

    Sinclair Broadcasting in the U.S. is scum too. They own a bunch of local TV channels and also their corresponding web sites. A lot of places in the U.S. have seen their local newspaper disappear (or shrink to where it might as well have) and Sinclair filled the void and pushes right wing tabloid crap.

    Local TV news in the U.S. is low key one of the worst offenders at creating false narratives. I live in a city and half my older relatives think I live in a war zone because of how local news is now structured: violent crime, a story about the moral panic du jour (like “Is your teen eating Tide Pods?”) followed by sports, traffic, and weather. I’m probably a million times more likely to be killed by a car than murdered but they only cover car accidents if it’s like, “Prom queen dies in accident.”

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    No question about this here would be complete without mentioning that the reason the myth persists that lemmings commit suicide out of natural instinct is that people shooting a Disney nature documentary wanted footage of lemmings doing this and disgruntledly pushed thousands of them off a ledge when it was discovered they don’t do this because it would get them that footage.

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    Google owns YouTube, so it’s technically a media corporation.
    I’m going with Google

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I immediately thought of Meta, but it’s a vast tapestry of evil out there. Maybe I should aim for a Top 5 Desert Island Evil Media List. Or we could do something like a Letterman Top 10.

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    Fox, Sinclair, Google and Disney are all fair choices in the thread, but every country has their local evil media companies too.In Germany Axel Springer and the Bild-Zeitung are at least in the “Also ran category” for most evil media company.