❝Far right news isn't a for-profit concern, it's a loss-leader for oligarch-friendly policies.
It's a steal: a million bucks' worth of news buys America's ultra-rich a billion dollars' worth of tax-cuts and the right to maim their workers and poison their customers for profit.❞
Nail on the head from @pluralistic:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/12/the-view-from-somewhere/
@pluralistic But wait! The direct hits keep coming:
❝Meanwhile, the Democrats have historically relied on the "traditional media" to carry their messages, on the ground that reality has a well-known leftist bias, so any news outlet that hews to "journalistic ethics" will publish the truth….
This is a stupid policy, and it has failed.❞
@inthehands @pluralistic This has been the case for over half a century: National Review, the vanguard publication of capitalism and self-reliance, lost money year after year. It didn’t matter one smidge. The deep-pocketed robber barons and Commie-haters who propped it up financially knew what a good investment it was. And they were right
@inthehands @pluralistic Cory gets a lot of things right in that write up, except that after so many tragically incompetent strategic blunders, its really hard to avoid the conclusion that most Democratic leadership are not really in the game to win. More precisely, not in it to win for the people
@inthehands @pluralistic "#Democrats suck at getting their message out, and that exacts a high electoral cost." Indeed! The same thing is true for the #Trudeau #Liberals in #Canada. Their messaging sucks big time. Of course, their follow through (actually lack thereof) is the real problem. #cdnpoli #uspol #communications #media #messages
@miki_lou @inthehands @pluralistic Exactly. The problem is not the messaging, the problem is the values.