Comment on Cyclists are dying on our roads at an alarming rate - why don't we care?
byroon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Same cause as a lot of problems: the UK has an incredibly right-wing press (mostly owned by a few billionaires) that pumps out propaganda all the time
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 months ago
The press seems to be very powerful to have this much coercive control. What media outlets would you like to be shut down?
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Not OP.
But the UK press has had this power since at least the early 1800s. When they were directly responsible for delaying the UK abolition of slavery. By outright lying to the UK population about the life of slaves.
Access to the internet has definitely reduced the influence in the last 20 years. But the same spending is effecting social media.
The daily mail has the worst reputation. Given, it was set up intentionally by a wealthy Mongol in the 1930s to influence commoner ideals. (commoner being the political term at the time, House of Lords vs commons). But the UK freedom of the press ideal truly distorts how wealth can be used to influence UK press.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Damn Mongolians!
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Just the criminal ones. I think that would leave private eye
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
I think we should keep the Metro too just so future generations can see what bad journalism looks like
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Whoa there!!! Who mentioned shutting down portions of the press because they don’t say what you want?