New York Times runs opinion piece praising China's version of "freedom"

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[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Unfortunately, your four rules would require honest rulemakers. Given that this is precisely the problem, not sure how that's going to come about.

Other than that, I'm interested to see you put CNN in the same category as HuffPost or MotherJones. While all the outlets you mention spread the same message, the platforms are quite different tactically. I say this based on having been traveling this past week and being in airports. CNN is more than just "another outlet". CNN is displayed in public spaces, and there is no opting out. If you are in that space, there will be a screen showing you CNN whether you like it or not. It's the closest thing I've seen so far to Orwell's telescreens. The raw brainwashing value of having a soundtrack like CNN entering people's brains passively when in public spaces is a big deal. Then there are the CNN stores where people go to buy their snacks, newspapers, sundry, etc. The brand is huge, and it has nothing to do with their "popularity". It's about the saturation value. CNN, by saturating people's brains like this, becomes the story. Whether people agree or disagree, the constant blitzkrieg exposure to this material defines what CNN says as the dominant narrative.

Are they going broke based on any sort of popular support? Absolutely. You and I agree on that. But simply that act of defining "what the story is" is far too important for the establishment to let it go. When they lose control of that power, they will be done. I can see them operating a similar saturation campaign under a new brand (e.g. TimeWarner become Spectrum), but this type of propaganda is not going away. Until the whole thing falls apart, there will be a "CNN equivalent" with us for the duration.

Interestingly, bringing this back to the topic of the OP, it is more and more apparent that the CNN equivalent in the US is now becoming a subsidiary of Chinese propaganda. I thought the US had more independence from China than we have been shown to do in the past year. The good news is that CCP management of our country is becoming too explicit to hide. Whether that's enough to wake people up to the seriousness of our situation? That's an open question.

[–]Tarrock 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Things are about to change in a big way. The media is on its last leg and things are about to take a major u-turn irl.

The right just saw an election get stolen from them and are realizing that their party is both spineless and useless. They're realizing that perhaps the police aren't on their side. The left is about to figure out that things will go back to the way in the Obama era and it wasn't the flowers and rainbows they've been indoctrinated to believe. The government moves slowly and the left will not get the crap they've been demanding for the last 4 years. If they get anything it'll be watered down like Obamacare was. Both sides just saw billions go to foreign countries and Politician pet projects (The Kennedy Center) and are starting to wake up to this when they only got crumbs. The lockdowns are about to be cranked up to max, which will insure that many more people lose everything. The antifa rioting isn't going to stop, if anything, it'll get worse especially now that the right will be doing it. I think something big politically is coming.

The media is about to go back to sleep. Think people are going to watch the news when they're getting hard hitting news that Joe Biden's Dog told a pet psychic that he's happy to go to the white house and his master will be a good president compared to them being told everyday that Hitler is in the white house and he's exterminating minorities? Many of them have lost A LOT of money the last 4 years and that's even with the bump Trump gave them.

CNN literally pays airports to have them on the tv. They spend MILLIONS a year on this. Let's look at Sears, if they had put a billboard EVERYWHERE, yet no one wanted what they were selling, would they still be around? No, because no one wants what they're selling. Did you know that 50 year old episodes of Scooby-Doo on boomerang get more viewers than CNN during primetime? Now imagine what's about to happen now that Trump will be gone.

Like I said, AT&T is trying to sell CNN Because of how much money they're vampiring a year. AT&T is beholden to their shareholders and if CNN starts losing a lot more in the next few years, they'll be gone real fast. And if you read the article, you'll see that they're literally talking about selling it to Jeff Bezos (Amazon and Washington Post owner). With what's about to happen, if this goes through, this will really wake people up, but then again I expect a monopoly risk to stop a sale like this.

The goal of s/mediapunchback is to cost these companies money for their unethical behavior the last 4 years (at a minimum) and to wake people up to the scummy inbreeding between the media, the elite, and government.