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submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Okay but have you had a refreshing Coca Cola today?

mmmm Coca Cola

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That reminds me of that new game show with Shaq... they stop the fucking show and thank a sponsor for a freebie answer. Like, you can see the light leave the host's eyes as she says "thanks, Pepsi..." when the show stops for the sponsor event.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You mean the host stops to thank a sponsor? Or a guest can thank a sponsor to get a free answer?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The entire show grinds to a halt and the host says something like "Now it's time for a refreshing chance at a do-over thanks to our friends at (sponsor). Thanks, (sponsor)." And the guest can take the free answer or not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

(youtube link)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Brought to you by Pfizer

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

xiph.org ftw

[+] [email protected] -7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Six perspectives is a bit better than one. And that's only counting mainstream media, there's plenty of good independent journalism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is it six different perspectives or is it one perspective by six conglomerates that are colluding?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The latter. Six billionaires' opinions are not diverse enough.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is it really those 6 billionaires opinions in every one of the stories their media presents every day? Seems like a stretch. I could see them imprinting their biases and blocking stories that they don't want out, but colluding to control the narrative gives them too much credit I think. I'm lucky enough to have some decent independent journalism in my area, but I would love if there was more!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

imprinting their biases and blocking stories that they don’t want out

That's it. That's all they need to do to influence a country or population at the scale that billionaires operate at. They all have very similar opinions and preferences (otherwise they wouldn't be billionaires).

That so e people think that a publicly funded editorially independent press is somehow worse that this is maddening.

It's also not a zero sum game. We can have both, yet somehow some people think it's one or the other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I hear you. And I agree, I would love more independently edited press out there. PBS and NPR seem under attack regularly by the right, but they do a pretty good job of being unbiased overall.

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