"Even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream a well funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information." -time.com

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I hope you're not implying that somebody owns the media. Because that would be antisemitic.

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Who the owners are is secondary and provides people a mental/emotional wall to hide behind when you point out the obvious. Better to focus on the simple fact that media concentration does exist, and that those running it do actively manipulate opinion. People will be less likely to emotionally reject a simpler construction like this. Who the individual people at the top are will come out on its own once enough people realize first that there does exist such a group, regardless of their identity.

[–]Pononimus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The question is not: "who owns the media" but "who owns the owners of the media?"

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'll never forget this. Most people just laughed it off, but a lot of Republicans I know are now totally convinced the Democrats in office are total villains.

If only they'd realize it's both parties who take part in this Cabal.

[–]Pononimus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm very familiar with this. Historically, the Democrat (especially the Dixiecrat) Good Old Boy Network has been doing this since before the days they failed to keep slavery an Institution in the South. Why do you think they call New Orleans "The Big Easy"? It's not because it's easy to live there but because it has been one of the easiest places in the country where you could get things done by greasing a few palms and paying off a few politicians. T'was always thus for Democrats to do that. T'was always thus for those same scumbag Democrats to blame whoever was the opposition, too.