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In reply to the discussion: An observation about the media response to the killing of UHC CEO Brian Thompson... [View all]
Uncle Joe
(64,074 posts)40. Generally speaking, the value that the corporate media; places on individuals is directly related to their wealth,
Palestinians don't have shit, that's why the ongoing genocide; (which all the world knows is happening) is all but ignored by them.
The corporate media's prime directive isn't to inform or enlighten the American People so much as to maintain the current power structure of dog eat dog capitalism in the United States because that's how they make their mega-bucks, not to mention that they're owned by oligarchs.
Thanks for the thread Jedi Guy.
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An observation about the media response to the killing of UHC CEO Brian Thompson... [View all]
Jedi Guy
Dec 2024
OP
Ah, Terminator 2. One of the very few sequels that was superior to its predecessor.
Jedi Guy
Dec 2024
#5
Media responds to eyeballs watching. It's been an interesting, human interest
allegorical oracle
Dec 2024
#6
Not to be cheeky, but I choose what's in front of my eyeballs as much as possible.
allegorical oracle
Dec 2024
#55
Part of it is also is "proximity bias". It took place in NYC, against a very-high-on-the-social-totem-pole guy.
JHB
Dec 2024
#7
Assassinations, blood, police investigations, etc., sell. I've had CNN on in background today and that was
Silent Type
Dec 2024
#10
The media can, and does, deliberately create the public's interest by what the media pushes forward.
Think. Again.
Dec 2024
#15
On December 4, 2024, 41 other Americans died from gun violence. 42 total. Only 1 is getting widespread
Solly Mack
Dec 2024
#18
Only certain lives matter and I'm not in that club. The majority of us aren't.
Solly Mack
Dec 2024
#36
But a rich white CEO of a huge corporation is seen as perhaps 10,000 times more important than a "nobody" American.
DSandra
Dec 2024
#87
Wall Street and the billionaire parasites have declared war on the American working class.
PatrickforB
Dec 2024
#39
Generally speaking, the value that the corporate media; places on individuals is directly related to their wealth,
Uncle Joe
Dec 2024
#40
Agree...but, it's also the sensationalism of it that they think brings viewers. Legacy media is not the news
PortTack
Dec 2024
#41
He was no longer PM at the time, but still a public figure. And the shooting was at a public event.
Coventina
Dec 2024
#49
A lot of cyberpunk and futuristic science fiction deals with out-of-control corporate power.
Jedi Guy
Dec 2024
#67
The shooter must be caught, or our great healthcare system would be destroyed
dalton99a
Dec 2024
#73
Yep. That said, though, the US cares infinitely more about motherfucking CEOs than it does about kindergarteners...so
Karasu
Dec 2024
#82
There are many reasons why the media are losing their collective shit over this, but all of them are painfully obvious
Karasu
Dec 2024
#83
Slow down ... there's no conspiracy ... news editors have various criteria on which news is judged.
ificandream
Dec 2024
#85