The Epstein saga shows us the impotence of polite 'centrist' media – Greg Jericho

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  the incompetance of centrist media was platforming the people who don’t understand/pretend not to understand that climate change/global warming is happening, amongst all the other bullshit.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hanlon’s Razor is a bold faced lie, don’t assume ignorance or incompetence when a profit motive is driving the people that own the papers.

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• eureka@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The Epstein saga was one more case of it becoming clearer and clearer that the status quo, normal, is unacceptable.

  There are hundreds more problems where profitable industries, everything from non-renewable energy companies to car companies to dairy to lawn care to plastics to drugs to gambling and so many more use their weight to fund ways to downplay change. And this works because mainstream news sources (generally speaking) are complicit. Every time they pick a think tank prop as the ‘expert’, this is direct propaganda.

  Yes, Channels 7, 9 and 10 can be bought out. They are for-profit broadcasters, and quite frankly it’s shameful to be watch any of them now that there’s such a rich, freely-available and accessible world of alternatives. Obviously other broadcasters have their own inherent biases, but a channel owned my major stock owners and paid for by advertisers has direct anti-social results.

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  • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Another prime example of this is the false equivalence media often draws between fascism and antifascism, simplifying it down to “both of them sometimes use violence”. (anyone who cares enough to look will notice that violence is a rare, and never preferred, antifascism tactic)

    Luckily there are a few semi-mainstream and occasionally mainstream outlets who don’t fall for this nonsense.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  i must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate

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• MalReynolds@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just sends me to substack. Got an archive link?

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  • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, keeps doing that for me. The article is within the first ten on that page once you cancel the email request for me. So its quite easy to find without going to archive. I’d favour giving deepcut the click through if possible.

    Also, i checked and its not up on archive.md and i’m not sure the legals around archiving it myself. Sorry mate, i’ll have to read up a bit more about that side of archives before being comfortable doing it.

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    • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The undecorated link seems to work for me without redirect

      deepcutnews.com/…/epstein-and-the-impotence-of-po…

      It is also already captured on archive.is

      archive.is/sWrRc

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I hate the use of the term centerist like this. fox news saying they are fair and balanced does not make them centerist and its annoying it seemed to legitamize crazy and have places getting the crazy take. When you move over your not in the center anymore.

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  • fiat_lux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How does fox news relate to this? It’s neither mentioned nor one of the sources linked to in the article.

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    • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      its just for me the start of the calling something clearly biased like it was some sort of neutral source. I actually get real annoyed with news nation as its exactly like fox news started. Its like you know whats fair and balanced. Just reporting on actually facts and don’t report what people say without mentioning if its know to be real, or a lie, or cannot be independently corroborated. Ultimately I just get annoyed even by some of the best news outlets.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  there are no two sides to this story

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