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applegrove

(133,182 posts) Thu Sep 18, 2025, 02:28 AM Sep 2025

Mass media is dying just as the billionaires are getting control of it: [View all]

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-09-18T02:19:33.269Z

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Mass media is dying just as the billionaires are getting control of it: [View all] applegrove Sep 2025 OP

I taught mass media NJCher Sep 2025 #1

Mass media is dying BECAUSE the billionaires got control of it. Layzeebeaver Sep 2025 #2

But if people stop watching, they make less money off it. milestogo Sep 2025 #7

Yes, this pandering to what is essentially a very fickle audience of one... Hugin Sep 2025 #3

Yep, this could be the coup de grace. tanyev Sep 2025 #4

Streaming isn't fully immune either newdeal2 Sep 2025 #5

I don't watch ANY advertising supported television. hunter Sep 2025 #6

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