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TV News is so bad: I just saw an "A Current Affair" story that totally misses the point and I have to rant about it to you guys (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Posted to the dunk tank because we don't really have a rant space.

Okay I know calling A Current Affair news is a stretch but damn that boomer propaganda be slimy.

I hardly watch TV news anymore but they had a story about "Why are nurses and teachers missing out while these guys profit!?" And I fell for the click bait hoping that it was a story calling out wage theft or something similar, so I watched.

So what was the story actually about?

"OMG look at all the UNDERSERVED perks and high pay that construction workers get with no increase to production BECAUSE THEY HAVE A UNION. UNIONS ARE EEEEEVIL! All that money has to come from somewhere so THATS why all you teachers and nurses don't get decent pay! Small business would collapse if everyone was paid well! Waaaaah! It's EVIL UNIONS and THE COMMUNIST LABOR PARTY!" (That last part is extra infuriaing to me because in reality Labor is just as right-wing and anti-union as the American Dems)

Such blatant propaganda to direct workers anger against each other rather than the real issue, which is "Shouldn't everyone be getting a fair deal at work?"

Of course capitalism bootlickers would say "NO WE NEED PEOPLE TO EXPLOIT BECAUSE THATS HOW WE MAKE BIIIIG MONEY. Sorry sweaty, someone has to be under the boot and it's not going to be me! the-republican "

I will make no excuses for the terror.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

I'm always shocked that people in my world aren't leftist, but I forget that I just don't watch television news.