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DonCoquixote

(13,615 posts)
Sun May 28, 2017, 07:16 PM May 2017

Right-wing provocateurs say they are being silenced. Cry me a river

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/28/right-wing-provocateurs-silenced-cry-me-a-river

From the article:

So when senior people at Breitbart and on-air talent at Fox News start saying they are only now realizing the extent of corporate and advertiser power? Cry me a river. They are liars, naïve or have been in a coma for the last 50 years.

Ask the other end of the political spectrum about the impact of corporate control. Truly leftist, progressive voices have been essentially frozen out of the US and UK commercial public spheres. And by “leftist” I don’t mean the Wall Street friendly, Coke-sponsored, pseudosocial democracy of Hillary Clinton.

Critiques of consumption are rarities. When wars rage, most media will cheerlead the battles and interview former generals while anti-war protests, sometimes enormous in size, are either ignored or sidelined as nothing more than PC slacker culture. When truly progressive candidates emerge, they are belittled as at best anomalies and at worst pie-in-the-sky dreamers who will destroy the economy.

Unfettered corporate and advertiser control of the media are real and are bad for democracy. But when people like Bill O’Reilly, Katie Hopkins and Sean Hannity claim victim status after advertiser pressure, let’s remember that they are suffering the consequences of a system they so gleefully championed.
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Right-wing provocateurs say they are being silenced. Cry me a river (Original Post) DonCoquixote May 2017 OP
They were all for free market capitalism Phoenix61 May 2017 #1
Damn straight, cry me a river! ProudLib72 May 2017 #2
+1,000!!! I feel we have turned a corner. The WAPO is charging forward and is killing it right now AgadorSparticus May 2017 #3
WAH WAH WAH blueinredohio May 2017 #4
Snowflakes!!!! Initech May 2017 #5

Phoenix61

(16,954 posts)
1. They were all for free market capitalism
Sun May 28, 2017, 07:19 PM
May 2017

Now they don't like it? Talk about a bunch of little snowflakes.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
2. Damn straight, cry me a river!
Sun May 28, 2017, 07:20 PM
May 2017

The MSM revolution will not come from this country. It will come from abroad. When their consumers stop listening to the tripe that they are dishing out and start looking toward European news sources, maybe (just maybe) the MSM will start to come around.

AgadorSparticus

(7,963 posts)
3. +1,000!!! I feel we have turned a corner. The WAPO is charging forward and is killing it right now
Sun May 28, 2017, 07:41 PM
May 2017

Really good journalism. Should be...they hired on 60+ reporters. That is not a declining operation. I am glad to see real journalism rise again.

http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/12/the-profitable-washington-post-adding-more-than-five-dozen-journalists-004900

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