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Re: How can you know what news is real?

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Post by richthegeek »

barry-cotter wrote: post #4

Is this really that surprising? Billionaires owning vanity projects isn’t news when they’re football teams, why is it when they’re corporate news organizations? Also, if there was ever a time to be concerned about the owners of media organizations controlling the narrative this is not it. The media, and the ruling class more generally, being pissed off that the peasants are daring to speak back and have their own non…

> Billionaires owning vanity projects isn’t news when they’re football teams, why is it when they’re corporate news organizations?

You really can't see the difference between the two? If Mark Cuban has a problem with a player and cuts him from a game, then only the Maverick's suffer. If he (owned a paper and) has a problem with a politician and demands hit pieces, the whole country suffers.

Re: How can you know what news is real?

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Post by ra120271 »

sojmq wrote: post #6

"only 15 billionaires and 6 corporations owning the majority of U.S media outlets" Wow, such stinking antisemitism in this article. I had hoped we, as a society, could do much better

I went back and re-read the article with your comment in mind and struggled to recognise any overt anti-semitism. Could you provide some examples?

Re: How can you know what news is real?

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Post by barry-cotter »

sojmq wrote: post #6

"only 15 billionaires and 6 corporations owning the majority of U.S media outlets" Wow, such stinking antisemitism in this article. I had hoped we, as a society, could do much better

Did you mean to reply to a different post? There’s no mention of the word Jew or Jewish in the article you’re commenting on.

Re: How can you know what news is real?

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Post by paganel »

adrianN wrote: post #10
sojmq wrote: post #6

"only 15 billionaires and 6 corporations owning the majority of U.S media outlets" Wow, such stinking antisemitism in this article. I had hoped we, as a society, could do much better

I only skimmed the article but couldn't find anything antisemitic. What did I miss?

Not the OP, but I'd guess the only connection to potential antisemitism is the critical mention of Sheldon Adelson, "an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist" who is very supportive of some of the politics carried out by the Israeli state.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Adelson

Re: How can you know what news is real?

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Post by busterarm »

rcMgD2BwE72F wrote: post #2

You need to fork this: https://github.com/mdiplo/Medias_francais Google Translate: >French media: who owns what? >Property relations between the French media and their main shareholders >The data is organized in two tables: >1. 'medias_francais.tsv' contains all shareholders (natural or legal persons) and media represented on the map >2. 'relations_medias_francais.tsv' details the capital links between these sharehol…

I use the NewsGuard (I admit they're far from perfect) browser plugin and there's an alarming number of news stories that are broken by entities that have virtually all of the green check marks except that they conceal the ownership and financing of their newspaper.

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ra120271 wrote: post #12
sojmq wrote: post #6

"only 15 billionaires and 6 corporations owning the majority of U.S media outlets" Wow, such stinking antisemitism in this article. I had hoped we, as a society, could do much better

I went back and re-read the article with your comment in mind and struggled to recognise any overt anti-semitism. Could you provide some examples?

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