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LearnedHand

(5,604 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:49 PM Sep 2025

The MSM will never "wake up." This is not a temporary loss of purpose.

The executives and boards of directors long ago decided that stirring outrage, generating clicks was their swimlane. This will NEVER change (under existing laws and regulations) and there IS no waking up. It doesn’t do any good to ask when they will get a clue. They got the clue decades ago, and it’s that you/we/our candidates don’t generate revenue for their shareholders.

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The MSM will never "wake up." This is not a temporary loss of purpose. (Original Post) LearnedHand Sep 2025 OP
and they continue their consolodation JBTaurus83 Sep 2025 #1
Totally agree LearnedHand Sep 2025 #2
No they will never wake up, they aren't asleep. They are molding this country the way they want it. Autumn Sep 2025 #3
Oh that clarifies what I'm reaching for: They aren't asleep! LearnedHand Sep 2025 #4

JBTaurus83

(1,678 posts)
1. and they continue their consolodation
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:05 PM
Sep 2025

under right wing ownership. All of these big media companies need to be smashed apart. So few people and corporations should not own "the news".

LearnedHand

(5,604 posts)
2. Totally agree
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:10 PM
Sep 2025

And now some entertainment conglomerate wants to buy the CNN conglomerate? It’s obscene, and it’s an abrogation of their constitutional responsibilities under the first amendment.

Autumn

(49,020 posts)
3. No they will never wake up, they aren't asleep. They are molding this country the way they want it.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 05:12 PM
Sep 2025

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