Every once in a while I find myself talking to someone who doesn’t understand that the very rich people who own news operations also control what information those properties choose to share or suppress, and they use that power to shape public opinion and political processes to protect their interests.
So I tell them about how late on election night in 2000 I was at 30 Rock with the producer in charge of the entire live news broadcast both right before (totally calm) and right after (extremely freaked out) she was summoned upstairs by ownership and ordered to call the famously too-close-to-call Florida results in favor of George W. Bush. NBC was the first network after Fox to do so that night and all the others fell in line soon after. The Supreme Court later cited Bush’s presumption of victory on election night as justification for its ruling to install him as president.
Guess I don’t need to tell that story anymore?
#USPol #WashingtonPost #WaPo #LATimes #LosAngelesTimes #Bezos #Capitalism #Billionaires #Fascism #News
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