I appreciate that you consider us on the same side. This often seems to be a sticking point and causes a lot of unnecessary postering.
While his comment might be considered to be a little flippant, I don’t take it as the insult you did. We will just have to disagree here.
We used to have laws against media consolidation but no law preventing the wealthy from controlling all media as long as it wasn’t all directly owned by the same entity. This isn’t than panacea you seem to think it is, although I do lament things like the end of the fairness doctrine from time to time.
I believe it should have been expanded to all media as opposed to be being abolished. Actually, I don’t even think it needs to be a law if we had a strong culture of considering all sides of the argument fairly. Of course, that is not the world we live in.
Another poster brought up the Internet and how it was not originally a mouthpiece for the wealthy. I remember back in the days of IRC and then blogging and I can attest to the downward trajectory discourse has taken. The rise of social media turned the Internet from a playground for techies into a propaganda machine for the oligarchy.
I didn’t mean to to insinuate you didn’t know all this already. I am just talking and I apologize if my word salad cones across as arrogant.
Mac@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Hate to break it to ya but “hate to break it to ya” aren’t fighting words.
That’s a ‘you’ problem.