Mastodawn

spreading the message

I think part of the issue is that a lot of people who are aware of this know that it’s been happening for a lot longer than since Trump’s first election, and it’s not specifically a right wing takeover. It’s an overall consolidation of power into the hands of an ultra-wealthy few, and right wing is currently the most advantageous position for them to take.

This particular video is from 2018, a year into Trump’s first term, and it shows a large amount of local news stations that were believed to be spread across the political spectrum (at least for US run stations) all reciting the same exact script.

But the movements of Rupert Murdoch, or the Sinclair Media group, or iHeartRadio, or any of the many number of conglomerates didn’t just crop up overnight purely under right wing situations to support right wing movement.

Unless you really think Trump’s first election was some 5D chess thing, he was catching flak from all sides. Before that, the news media gave incredibly kind coverage to Obama’s involvement in the Middle East, his use of drones, his moves to further the rights granted to the US government and intelligence agencies through the Patriot act (started under Dubya, but expanded under Obama), the construction of illegal immigration centers during his tenure… the list goes on for him like it does for most Presidents.

The screws have been tighening for decades, this isn’t something shockingly new to present day, we’re just approaching critical mass.

This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy

All Sinclair-owned news stations use the same script.

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gdog05

There was an episode of West Wing where CJ was really worried about (it was obviously Sinclair media) the consolidation of news media especially. I think that episode was in 2003 or 2004. It’s not a huge problem until it is. But, I contend it has been a right wing plan. Yes, the oligarchs have been the ones doing the buying but the plan to consolidate all media has been a major plan by the Christian right since at least the 80’s. They’ve been the ones pushing hard for it. And while it can benefit the oligarchs it primarily benefits fascism and the right.

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NihilsineNefas 2d ago

if you think it only started with right wing christians in the 80s and hadn’t been going on since the end of the seccond world war, the invention of the intelligence agencies and the sudden realisation that governments can move exorbitant quantities of money into companies that dont exist, to pay for experiments on the population in secret

'Because all those post-nazism scientists have a lot of ideas on how to get those damn commies to spill the beans and we can’t have them go work for someone else, how else are we going to make the drug that makes you trip so much balls your arms and legs fall off? (yes. that’s a real thing. Bromo-DragonFLY)