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So, the L.A. Times, Washington Post and New York Times are now in conservative hands. Just like the takeover of the judiciary that the Heritage Foundation coordinated. If we can ever take back our government, we need to re-institute the Fairness Doctrine, ban foreign ownership of our media and strip citizenship from this guy, Elon Musk, and any naturalized citizen that works against the best interests of America.
You'd think that would be the problem, but the New York Times was run by a Jewish man during the Holocaust who buried the story to curry favor with the powers that be. He felt that at his level of capital, he'd be unlikely to suffer the way that German Jews were, even when Naziism became popular here, and therefore decided that covering up genocide was the safer bet for him politically and financially.
When it comes to this kind of shit, political affiliation is merely a symptom of the disease: being a fucking asshole. It turns out that the most important thing to the American media is money and power. Fuck the people.
Imagine a world where everyone have the class solidarity that the bourgeois have.
I know one thing: if we could coordinate ourselves even a little, I'd finally know what "billionaire" tastes like
And that's on top of Fox, CNN, Sinclair (40%? of local news), etc.
NPR
NPR is one of the few decent journalistic outlets left. What are you talking about?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024.html
I don't love the Times editorial/opinion boards but they're hardly the same as WaPo and the L.A. Times. They also happen to be one of the only places to get decent coverage of global conflicts, along with Bellingcat and War Nerd. They should absolutely make significant changes in their, frankly, shit tier Gaza coverage. They're also reporting on increasing attacks against the LGBTQ+ community in the Ivory Coast.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/world/africa/ivory-coast-lgbtq.html
And secret prisons in Bangladesh, where prisoners are tortured and disappeared.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/world/asia/bangladesh-disappeared.html
And (like everyone else) that Israel killed Lebanese journalists. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/world/middleeast/israel-strike-lebanon-journalists.html
They also featured firsthand accounts by doctors and a teacher of the horrors of IDF intentionally targeting children.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/opinion/gaza-teacher-students-school.html
So yes, NYT has awful coverage of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. Institutions are complicated and agenda-driven. They also have better coverage of conflicts in the rest of the world than most news outlets.
They also, unlike the Post and L.A. Times, actually picked a side, which is what's specifically relevant to this post.
It’s not about conservative hands or foreign hands. It’s about wealthy hands. They don’t want to shoot their wealth in the foot by pissing off powerful people who could turn around and hurt their money. Burn their fucking money and distribute their goods and meat among the people to barter with in a new society built from the ashes of their goddamn empire.
Always have been.
The NYT is?
Now... now!? They've been doing that for centuries.
I don't know what the Fairness Doctrine would do in modern times. Its legal basis was in broadcast TV and radio, not the news media in general. It never applied to newspapers or cable news, and it wouldn't apply to the Internet. I don't know why it still gets brought up except as a point of history.