• HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Corporate media sanitizes raw information for the masses to redirect the public’s collective anger and diffuse the otherwise clear responsibility that is nearly always a direct result of the oligarchs’ own actions driven purely by abject unchecked greed.

    Individual journalists (who usually don’t get paid millions like the pundits who help “manufacture consent” from the public) usually barely can make ends meet are the ones who do the incredibly hard, thankless, and sometimes even dangerous job of actually attempting to inform the public through an unfiltered lens are few and far between.

    In fact, even a large number of the supposed “independent” ones are astroturfed and just pretending to be genuine… but are in fact financed by dark money from groups propped up by billionaire libertarian shitheads like the Kochs in an attempt to muddy the waters and further disingenuously reframe issues by scapegoating minorities and the marginalized for problems - again - caused almost exclusively by the absurdly rich.