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Hekate

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63. I don't know if there are any independent radio stations surviving. They were bought up years ago

Sat Oct 22, 2022, 12:35 PM

Oct 2022

They play music and news on a continuous loop. No DJs required. Emergency news relevant to your area, like floods and tornadoes, is not there anymore.

Last I heard, there was only one talk-radio show available to the US Army, and it was right-wing. You could check that out and start bugging your congresscritter and Senator.

As for local TV stations, they too have been bought up in recent years, by Sinclair I think. If you want to retain your newscasting job, read the script. When DeJoy started dismantling post offices, the station covering my former town reported that all drop-off boxes but one had been removed from the street in front of X post office. Fine as far as it goes. What they didn’t say was that this was an incredibly busy street near a freeway onramp, and they didn’t ask why.

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When are Progressive Billionnaires going to use their wealth to buy media companies and keep them [View all] samsingh Oct 2022 OP

Maybe they're not really that progressive or are worried harumph Oct 2022 #1

Cable is against us. pwb Oct 2022 #2

YouTube? Seriously? brooklynite Oct 2022 #7

totally agree with this Dorian Gray Oct 2022 #72

Youtube is just an aggregator. They don't do their own research or reporting. Ocelot II Oct 2022 #12

Who are the progressive billionaires you are thinking of that should do this ? JI7 Oct 2022 #3

This question, exactly. quakerboy Oct 2022 #18

You are correct about MSNBC gab13by13 Oct 2022 #4

The more money you have the less progressive you are. IMHO. nt Autumn Oct 2022 #5

The problem with a populist mentality in a nutshell. Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #43

Billionaires would be nice, but there should be enough millionaires to do better JHB Oct 2022 #6

it wouldn't take much to destroy the only rw medium that can create the alt reality. RW radio is certainot Oct 2022 #39

And where do you propose to get the resources to do that in any organized fashion? JHB Oct 2022 #47

it's free to complain to universities and pro teams. black athletes are being used to spread racism certainot Oct 2022 #58

I don't know if there are any independent radio stations surviving. They were bought up years ago Hekate Oct 2022 #63

They're not going to do that Bettie Oct 2022 #8

+1 TeamProg Oct 2022 #23

We've never had it that easy. It's why GOTV is our slogan, not a Republican one DFW Oct 2022 #9

Like to see them buy up a lot of rental properties and cut rents in half. MichMan Oct 2022 #10

Like that idea Rebl2 Oct 2022 #11

I don't know about you guys, but I think we have chased out Democratic money people in Demsrule86 Oct 2022 #13

Bloomberg is planing to spend $60M this year per WaPo LonePirate Oct 2022 #16

When? The election is less than three weeks away...He always says that. Demsrule86 Oct 2022 #46

I'm sure there is a way to track his donations. Oppo research certainly finds it out fast enough. Hekate Oct 2022 #65

Whereas I think we have given money a lot of control of the party quakerboy Oct 2022 #20

Touch KPN Oct 2022 #28

We need to be able to fight fire with fire...we will accomplish nothing if we don't have money. Demsrule86 Oct 2022 #48

Besides Biden, I think Bloomberg was the only one who would have beaten Trump in 2022 Polybius Oct 2022 #44

He would have had a chance but being from New York like California makes it hard to win a Demsrule86 Oct 2022 #49

This is the closest that we have come to agreeing in a while, haha Polybius Oct 2022 #54

He would have had plenty of money for sure...I always vote Democratic. So he would have had Demsrule86 Oct 2022 #56

Demonizing billionaires as mustache-twirling cartoon villains. betsuni Oct 2022 #55

As soon as your net worth crosses the billion mark DFW Oct 2022 #71

It doesn't seem to have fazed Ted Turner any DFW Oct 2022 #70

What I want is a scrupulously neutral news outlet and not a biased one, Ocelot II Oct 2022 #14

When you have millions of citizens with near zero or no critical thinking skills for themselves, Justice matters. Oct 2022 #19

Even Hunt and Brinkley and Walter Cronkite were thought of and smeared as liberal by many. Ligyron Oct 2022 #27

I'm with you. Let's see a return of honest journalism instead of 24/7 opinion-entertainment Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #38

We don't have a silo...our people get hammered from everyone. MSNBC is not a liberl media source. Demsrule86 Oct 2022 #50

Cry me a river iemanja Oct 2022 #52

The problem is that we create our own silos. We watch only those programs Ocelot II Oct 2022 #60

This Hekate Oct 2022 #59

It seems like progressive billionaires are more focused on saving the environment. LonePirate Oct 2022 #15

Are they setting an example by selling their private jets and their mansions? MichMan Oct 2022 #17

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Because there's no such thing as a progressive billionaire🤷🏾‍♀️ Heather MC Oct 2022 #21

The best remedy is gathering news on your own Marthe48 Oct 2022 #22

I remember 40 years ago when repugs were whining louis-t Oct 2022 #24

I'm not sure there is a thing called "progressive billionaires". jaxexpat Oct 2022 #25

+1 TeamProg Oct 2022 #35

I've been wondering the same thing. SheltieLover Oct 2022 #26

Maybe because that is a bridge too far & would cut into their wealth by changing society. NullTuples Oct 2022 #37

I suppose perhaps you're right. SheltieLover Oct 2022 #40

Generally progressive billionaire is an oxymoron dlk Oct 2022 #29

Remember 10-15 years ago when it seemed like journalism just...quit? NullTuples Oct 2022 #30

This, precisely Hekate Oct 2022 #64

Good question I often ask as well. Most progressive news and commentary behind a pay wall. Pepsidog Oct 2022 #31

And many in rural areas don't have cable to even get MSNBC! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #42

Because autocratic corporate media monopolies cockblock democratic messaging. ancianita Oct 2022 #32

I doubt there are too many progressive billionaires relayerbob Oct 2022 #33

I don't think having a large Lib. Media Outlet would matter. Viewers are going to seek out what TeamProg Oct 2022 #34

Hence the complaints here about MSNBC and PBS iemanja Oct 2022 #53

So true. BlueKentuckyGirl Oct 2022 #36

I'm done waiting for a savior. He ain't coming. We need to do this ourselves, working together. Midnight Writer Oct 2022 #41

Yup! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #45

We have some progressive billionaire/millionaires, but media monopolists would drive them out. ancianita Oct 2022 #51

#1 It's their money & they get to decide. #2 Are any of them interested in a media empire? Hekate Oct 2022 #57

And if they did there'd be endless complaining, how they hate this or that show, that host, betsuni Oct 2022 #61

One possible solution would be for the labor unions to create a media startup--or fund one. keep_left Oct 2022 #62

Good information, thank you. Re union YouTube channels, I've looked. The closest I could find ancianita Oct 2022 #66

Thanks for the good info. The Fusion channel is a good example... keep_left Oct 2022 #67

It's not profitable for them. The vast majority of liberal/progressive folks do not partake ecstatic Oct 2022 #68

They are really progressive TheFarseer Oct 2022 #69

There's not many of them. Bucky Oct 2022 #73

K&R Roisin Ni Fiachra Oct 2022 #74