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  • Blackmist@feddit.uktoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world(The Bezos Post)
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    10 hours ago

    Sure, it’s shitty. But it’s been owned by the rich for the purposes of manipulating public opinion on the owner’s whim for a long time.

    Katherine Graham and her family owned it previously. Good buddies with the likes of Kissenger and the Reagans, exposed Watergate, but also said “We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.” to a room full of CIA spooks.

    All the other major media outlets are the same, some wizard pulling the strings from behind a curtain showing you things they want you to see and suppressing the things they don’t.

    And corporate social media has gone the same way. Reddit, Facebook, Twitter… All pulled and prodded by algorithms to make sure you only see the truth they want you to.

    The only difference between this and 1984 is that it’s mostly corporations rather than the government. There’s no truly independent and unbiased news to be had.