Fall of the Fourth Estate: A Critique of Mass Media

On Wednesday night, a man died while attempting to carry out a terrorist attack in Brasilia. He somehow managed to throw a bomb at his own head and fortunately no one else was injured.

Since then, the media has avoided using the words terrorist and terrorism when reporting the attack. Today a major local newspaper published an article that is practically a DIY tutorial on how to make a pipe bomb.

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Apple censors news Putin doesn’t like in the interests of shareholder value. Is anyone besides the Barents Observer reporting this?

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Only source I’ve seen so far.

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All the oppressed peoples: we just want equal rights and respect as your fellow human beings!

Atlantic: Is this the REAL fascism all along!!!

I hate this stupid fucking timeline so very much…

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Step 1: Elon takes over Twitter, unbans and amplifies the worst white nationalist posters, methodically turns it into a right wing echo chamber.

Step 2: Users who aren’t white nationalists or MAGA extremists leave for Bluesky en masse.

Step 3: op-ed columnists fret, “is Bluesky an echo chamber?”

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FML… way to miss the fucking point bloomberg news…

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Gonna cross-post this here, as they get into the why conservatives keep trying to co-opt alternative/countercultural movements (like punk, goth, hip-hop, etc) and that they don’t “get it”…

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The tone of this does seem a bit favorable…

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Substitute govt for Brand

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NY Times killed investigation of Israeli hooligans, internal email reveals
The New York Times has killed an investigation by one of its own reporters into Israeli mob violence in Amsterdam earlier this month.

In an internal Times email inadvertently shared with The Electronic Intifada, Dutch reporter Christiaan Triebert explained to a manager that he had pitched “a visual investigation I was conducting into the events of [6-8 November] in Amsterdam.”

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/ny-times-killed-investigation-israeli-hooligans-internal-email-reveals

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:canada: can’t take 11 million people in, I expect :mexico: won’t be keen either.

Edit: IIRC keeping people enslaved in the :us: is legal, if they are prisoners.

I’m thinking the USD 9bn in services and USD 2bn in goods generated by slave labour in :us: prisons is about to get a yuge boost.

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I don’t know who that is, but he seems a little foolish.

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