Call me old-fashioned, but if a car kills people at ten times the rate of other cars, the company covers up the data, and the CEO lies to the public and says the cars are safer…
@protecttruth I don't think fraud is the accurate charge here. He used covert means to kill people to enrich himself. Sounds to me like murder charges would be more appropriate. Maybe just start with everything.
The Daily Mail is owned by a rightwing billionaire, Lord Rothermere. In the 1930s, it was run by his grandfather, who used it to advocate for fascism and support Hitler. In the 1930s, the paper’s coverage was similar to rightwing media coverage today: advocating for voter suppression, cheerleading for fascists like Putin, attacking the left, describing fascists in “manly” terms.
The Daily Mail is owned by a rightwing billionaire, Lord Rothermere. In the 1930s, it was run by his grandfather, who used it to advocate for fascism and support Hitler. In the 1930s, the paper’s coverage was similar to rightwing media coverage today: advocating for voter suppression, cheerleading for fascists like Putin, attacking the left, describing fascists in “manly” terms.
Great piece about media from @ThomHartmann. It’s about how Republicans are right now actively plotting to make our media worse. US liberals need to care about media much more.
Thom’s right: this Republican TV/radio move could sink us in 2024 and consign us to autocracy for decades. What will we all do to fight? The time is now. #USpol
“wealthy GOP partisans are going for that Hispanic vote.”
Great piece about media from @ThomHartmann. It’s about how Republicans are right now actively plotting to make our media worse. US liberals need to care about media much more.
Thom’s right: this Republican TV/radio move could sink us in 2024 and consign us to autocracy for decades. What will we all do to fight? The time is now. #USpol
This history anecdote is so important for our time. It’s from ex-political consultant Bob Schneider, about Lyn Nofziger, one of Reagan’s longtime top aides.
“[Had we] opened a Pandora’s Box by [courting] religious zealots?”
“Lyn looked at me like I had just lost my mind. He turned to me and said, “Do you know how many people Jerry Falwell reaches per week? We want their votes. We can control the useful fools.”
This history anecdote is so important for our time. It’s from ex-political consultant Bob Schneider, about Lyn Nofziger, one of Reagan’s longtime top aides.
“[Had we] opened a Pandora’s Box by [courting] religious zealots?”
“Lyn looked at me like I had just lost my mind. He turned to me and said, “Do you know how many people Jerry Falwell reaches per week? We want their votes. We can control the useful fools.”
I think often about this cynical courting by billionaires of extreme Christians. (And about Paul Weyrich too.)
Today it was brought up by this thread and article, which talk about how religious extremists have taken over the conservative movement and are now using it to try to build a Christian autocratic state.
They invited them in, the billionaires did. Now they run the place.
Twitter is rapidly circling the drain. Now Mastodon tweets are getting marked as “sensitive.” The only objectionable content here, it seems, is the Mastodon mention.
Twitter is rapidly circling the drain. Now Mastodon tweets are getting marked as “sensitive.” The only objectionable content here, it seems, is the Mastodon mention.
Here’s another post in that thread about how media influences our opinions. In short, we all want to think our thoughts are our own. Instead, it it natural—and a common human experience—that our information environment influences our thoughts.
This is just fascism. Tucker Carlson is a fascist. Not just a semifascist, but a fascist propagandist cut from the same cloth as Father Coughlin and Goebbels.
We simply cannot survive as a democracy while Fox is accepted as news by the public at large.
If we want to save American democracy we must start fighting Fox (and the Koch-funded Daily Caller) explicitly.
Public officials should say the word “Murdoch”. And say there are billionaire oligarchs paying Carlson to lie about Ukraine.
Why does Murdoch pay Carlson to spew these lies? For votes. For billionaires. At Fox viewers’ expense. Say that. “Murdoch wants your money, he doesn’t care who dies, that’s why Fox drones on about Biden, it’s why Fox lies.”
@protecttruth I don't think fraud is the accurate charge here. He used covert means to kill people to enrich himself. Sounds to me like murder charges would be more appropriate. Maybe just start with everything.
@protecttruth i tried to find this article on search engines before, only could find way more positive articles. I am suspicious.
@protecttruth Stop brainstorming ways to save Twitter!