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A Letter to Rupert Murdoch Upon His Retirement
[Note. Read past the first line--which is meant as sarcasm.]
Dear Mr. Murdoch: I wanted to write to you to thank you for the impact you and yours have had on my life. I once lived peacefully in a neighborhood of people from varied backgrounds. Back then, I never knew nor cared what peopleâs political affiliations were. In fact, even when dating, asking someone to label themselves D or R would have seemed nonsensical. Thanks to you, half of that neighborhood no longer speaks to the other half. Prior to 2016, I used to attend a family reunion picnic in Pennsylvania, never caring if some of the people were particularly religious. Well, I would like to thank you for your hand in radicalizing and reinforcing perplexing beliefs in about half of the reunion participants. Now the reunions are barely attended and the family has divided into a feud. I want to thank you for the cousins and friends who defriended me, online and in person, when they fell victim to the dark rhetoric you peddle. Convinced now that their lives are under threats from trans criminals and vicious migrants, they are completely unaware of how theyâre economic interested are being robbed by a different source. Thank you so much for your enduring spirit of divisiveness. I hope the money you enjoyed while alive was worth all you stole from society. Mostly, may the hatred, division, suspicious, distrust, judgement and malignancy you leashed on us be returned to you a thousand foldâŚ.and may your nursing care be delivered with the same love for humanity you left behind. --GWE, NY, commenting on a NY Times article: Rupert Murdoch to Retire From Fox and News Corporation Boards
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#rupert murdoch#fox news#dividing america#murdoch's retirement#news corp#right-wing media#right wing propaganda#the new york times
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You know you fucked up when you got a slimeball like this talking like this about you...
#the daily wire#candace owens#ben shapiro#jeremy boreing#right-wing media#antisemitic rhetoric#misinformation#conspiracy theories#vaccines#immigrants#hamas#israel#genocide#jewish#hollywood#washington dc#extremism#far-right#controversy#termination#commentary#tucker carlson#fox news
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Mainstream media fails us again with their tepid failure to communicate the important points.
#maddow#rachel maddow#abortion#trump#right-wing media#politics#republicans#maga me sick#roe v wade#dobbs v. jackson women's health organization#dobbs decision#corrupt SCOTUS#supreme court of the united states#Youtube
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliverâseason 4, episode 18 Sinclair Broadcast Group, from July 2, 2017.
Deadspin article from March 31, 2018, which is the source for the video in the original post.
Daily Beast article from April 2, 2018 referencing the Deadspin video and an update from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from season 5 episode 6.
Deadspin followup article from April 9, 2018.
Mother Jones article from June 18, 2024.
#u.s. politics#u.s. media#sinclair broadcast group#right-wing media#right-wing propaganda#propaganda#misinformation#disinformation#check your sources#cite your sources#election 2024#last week tonight with john oliver#deadspin#the daily beast#mother jones#wikipedia#fourth estate#journalism#news#Youtube
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Stephen K. Bannon Released from Prison and Reasserts Political Influence
Stephen K. Bannon Released from Federal Prison Stephen K. Bannon, the combative and calculating strategist who played a pivotal role in the election of Donald J. Trump, was released from federal prison early on Tuesday morning. His influence as one of the most significant voices in the hard right political sphere was immediately evident as he wasted no time in reasserting himself. In an interviewâŚ
#contempt of Congress#Donald Trump#federal prison release#January 6 Capitol riot#political influence#right-wing media#Stephen K. Bannon#War Room podcast
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This is at least the third pro-violence account Trump has elevated since August
Donald Trump keeps âretruthingâ accounts that have called for killing his political opponents.Â
The former president did it again recently, promoting a post by an account (âEdensVisionâ) that has previously suggested Vice President Kamala Harris should be hanged, journalists should be killed, and President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama, among others, should âsuffer death.â
#right wing extremism#right wing terrorism#republikkkan hypocrisy#right wing hypocrisy#republican hypocrisy#christian hypocrisy#recall every republican#vote blue#vote democrat#defeat trump#defeat project 2025#defend democracy#harris walz 2024#media matters
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Don't threaten me with a good time, Republicans.
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#republican propaganda#republican assholes#maga morons#Republican oligarch propagandists#right wing media
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Time to cut the cord Long Post (LATimes) Donât like Tucker Carlsonâs racist spiel? If youâre a cable subscriber, youâre paying for it anyway.
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Letâs say you hate Fox News.Â
Maybe you believe that the cable channelâs retailing of baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by Joe Biden has damaged democracy.Â
Maybe youâre repulsed by the open racism voiced by Fox star anchor Tucker Carlson, not to mention his noxious spouting of antimasking and antivaccination claptrap that undermines public health.Â
Or maybe you believe that Foxâs willingness to feed its audience lies that its executives knew were lies â as suggested by the emails unearthed by Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.6-billion defamation lawsuit against Fox â makes it not a ânewsâ channel at all but a funnel for right-wing ideological mythmaking.
â Then-CBS chair and CEO Les Moonves chortles over Donald Trumpâs role in the 2016 election
You wouldnât be caught dead patronizing any of Carlsonâs advertisers, such as the MyPillow crackpot or the nutritional supplement mountebanks that fill the ad space between Fox News house ads.Â
Thatâs your way of boycotting Fox News, perhaps in the hope that the decline of advertising will prompt the channel to change its ways.
Tough luck. If youâre a cable channel subscriber, youâre almost certainly paying for Fox News, whether you like it or not.
This essential fact about how cable programming works is especially important at the moment for two reasons. One is that the trial of Dominionâs lawsuit is on the verge of starting in a Delaware courtroom.Â
(The trial was supposed to begin Monday, but the judge has deferred proceedings for a day to give the two sides a crack at an eleventh-hour settlement; if that doesnât happen, jury selection will be completed Tuesday and opening statements begin.)
The other reason is that negotiations between Fox and several major cable systems over the monthly fees the systems pay to carry Fox News are now underway or will be shortly.Â
In the past, the cable systems have largely bowed down to Foxâs demands; how the companyâs legal headwinds play into those negotiations going forward is anyoneâs guess.
One might be tempted to call Foxâs reliance on so-called carriage fees the dirty little secret of Fox Newsâ survival despite the flight of its blue-chip advertisers, except that itâs not much of a secret.
For years itâs been clear that Fox collects far more from what it calls âaffiliate feesâ than from advertising sponsors. In its most recent financial statement, for the quarter ended Dec. 31, Fox said it collected $1 billion in affiliate fees for its cable programming, but only $451 million from sponsors.
For the most recent full fiscal year ended June 30, Fox collected $4.2 billion in affiliate fees, compared with $1.46 billion in advertising. If advertising on Fox cable channels fell to zero, the segment would still have reported an operating profit of about $1.47 billion.
Fox Corp. doesnât break out the fees it collects for Fox News specifically, but itâs possible to construct an estimate. The company reported that the news channel had 75 million subscribers as of last June 30.Â
Industry reports place the fee it collects from the cable operators that carry Fox News at about $2 per cable subscriber per month, which works out to $1.5 billion a year in carriage fees.Â
These figures donât mean that 75 million cable viewers regularly tune in to Fox News â thatâs just the number of subscribers claimed by the cable systems that carry the channel. A more accurate estimate is that Fox News can claim about 3 million regular viewers. The other 72 million are paying for nothing.
In traditional theories about consumer behavior, people who donât like or donât trust a product can vote with their feet, simply by choosing not to buy.
Thatâs not how things work with cable television. Fox News has notched its impressive subscription figures because cable consumers typically donât have a choice. Fox News is one of the channels that cable systems treat as a must-have offering and, therefore, bundle it into their basic cable subscriptions. (Among the others are ESPN and CNN.)
Itâs remotely conceivable that cable magnates will examine the declining, if not completely evaporated, credibility of Fox as a news channel and decide to play hardball, either by offering smaller carriage fees or taking Fox News off the basic subscription tier entirely.
The operative term is âremotely.â The television industry is a thin reed to lean on when it comes to the public interest. Many of its executives are moral black holes. Recall, for example, how Les Moonves, then the chairman and CEO of CBS, giggled and chortled in 2016 over the horrifying inanity of the race for the GOP presidential nomination and its featured star, Donald Trump.
âMan, this is pretty amazing,â Moonves told the audience at a media conference. âWho would have thought this circus would would come to town? It may not be good for America, but itâs damn good for CBS. [Laughs] The moneyâs rolling in. ... This is fun.â
To peals of laughter, Moonves continued, âThis is going to be a very good year for us. Sorry, itâs a terrible thing to say, but bring it on, Donald, go ahead. Keep going. ... For us, economically, Donaldâs place in this election is a good thing.â (Moonves left CBS in 2018 after allegations surfaced of him sexually harassing and intimidating female employees.)Â
The industryâs surpassing love of lucre beyond all else doesnât only infect political coverage. Southern California sports fans can cast their minds back to the six-year blackout of Dodgers games on most of the regionâs pay-TV services starting in 2013.Â
Thatâs when the Dodgersâ new owners, led by Guggenheim Partners, reached a 25-year, $8.35-billion deal with Time Warner Cable to create a Dodgers cable channel. Time Warner figured it could make the deal pay by hawking the channel to the other pay-TV outlets in the region.
But Time Warner demanded such a high price for the channel that it received a firm ânoâ from every other pay-TV system, which included Cox, Charter Communications, the fiber services Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse, and the satellite companies DirecTV and Dish. Time Warner Cable served only about 30% of the pay-TV households in the Southland, so Dodger games were effectively blacked out for the other 70%.
The Dodgers held out for the highest price they could get for the TV rights, figuring the team is such a jewel in the Southern California sports crown that the sky was the limit. Time Warner figured it could squeeze the other pay-TV companies for every last dime because, really, what TV service would dare not carry the Dodgers, whatever the price? The answer was: all of them.
The blackout was lifted only after Time Warner Cable merged with Charter to create the Spectrum service. Who lost? The fans, thatâs who.
Fox News isnât the only channel that cable subscribers pay for but donât watch. Basic cable tiers probably include a majority of channels that the average subscriber never watches and may not even know exist.Â
For years, consumer advocates maintained that giving subscribers a la carte options from cable menus instead of the one-size-fits-all model would save people money.Â
Alas, this nirvana has proved to be a chimera. Streaming channels have peeled off from cable lineups and established their own individualized subscription services, with the result that what used to be bundled together in premium tiers are now separate charges. My own combined monthly bill for streaming services now comes to well more than $100, while my cable bill has risen faster than inflation.
The supine Federal Communications Commission deserves plenty of blame for this. The FCC has waved through cable mergers, including the Time Warner-Charter deal and Comcastâs acquisition of NBCUniversal, that have achieved nothing but the shrinkage of consumer choice.
What choices do consumers have regarding Fox News? Not many, if any. The progressive media watchdog Media Matters for America is pushing an âUnfox my Cable Boxâ grass roots initiative, but itâs too early to say if it has any traction.Â
Consumers can cancel their cable subscriptions and turn to external antennas to receive local broadcast channels, but the betting here is that it will be a long time before the decline in cable subscribers is large enough to force cable executives to reconsider their basic tier offerings. The FCC might be able to impose consumer choice on cable systems by regulation, but thatâs a slow process even under the best circumstances, and would surely come under a years-long legal attack from the industry.
Still, consumers shouldnât stay silent. Cable executives have kowtowed to Fox News in the past because its viewers have tended to speak with a single voice, backed by right-wing politicians; losing access to the channel would surely provoke an outcry from people with megaphones.Â
When DirecTV (which is part-owned by AT&T) announced last year that it would drop the right-wing channel OAN, six red-state attorneys general accused the satellite service of bowing to âpowerful left-wing voices.â DirecTV dropped it anyway.Â
But OAN is a relatively small player. Fox News is not. Moreover, having been founded in 1996, it has been a fixture on cable TV for the better part of a quarter-century. That makes it harder to excise.
But not impossible. Those who find the presence of Fox News on their cable menus detestable should let their cable operators know it. If the Dominion lawsuit resumes Tuesday, more evidence of the cable channelâs irresponsible promotion of false antidemocratic claims may emerge. Another lawsuit against Fox, a $2.7-billion claim filed in New York by the voting machine company Smartmatic, is in the offing, and could pile on further allegations.Â
At some point, cable executives may find that the drawbacks of keeping Fox News on basic cable outweigh the benefits of keeping it on. If those can be translated into dollars lost because subscribers are going away, maybe the cable firms will act in a way that serves, rather than undermines, the public interest, by kicking Fox News to the curb.
#Fox News Lies#tucker carlson#right-wing media#fox#fox lies#fox ânewsâ#propaganda#right-wing#shills for trump#cutting the cord#you're soaking in it#you're paying for it
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Possibly some large corporations actually want a right-wing government in charge?
Now....why could this be?
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This would make a great six-hour YouTube video.
#art#media#politics#media criticism#media literacy#manga#political cartoon#political correctness#wokeness#japan#right wing politics
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Yoel Roth, PhD used to be in charge of the trust and safety team at Twitter. This is a must-read article to better understand how the far right is attacking anyone who wants to guard against disinformation being shared on social media. Consequently, the link above is a gift đ link, so anyone can read the entire article, even if they do not subscribe to the NY Times.
Below are some excerpts:
When I worked at Twitter, I led the team that placed a fact-checking label on one of Donald Trumpâs tweets for the first time. Following the violence of Jan. 6, I helped make the call to ban his account from Twitter altogether. Nothing prepared me for what would happen next. Backed by fans on social media, Mr. Trump publicly attacked me. Two years later, following his acquisition of Twitter and after I resigned my role as the companyâs head of trust and safety, Elon Musk added fuel to the fire. Iâve lived with armed guards outside my home and have had to upend my family, go into hiding for months and repeatedly move. This isnât a story I relish revisiting. But Iâve learned that what happened to me wasnât an accident. It wasnât just personal vindictiveness or âcancel culture.â It was a strategy â one that affects not just targeted individuals like me, but all of us, as it is rapidly changing what we see online. Private individuals â from academic researchers to employees of tech companies â are increasingly the targets of lawsuits, congressional hearings and vicious online attacks. These efforts, staged largely by the right, are having their desired effect: Universities are cutting back on efforts to quantify abusive and misleading information spreading online. Social media companies are shying away from making the kind of difficult decisions my team did when we intervened against Mr. Trumpâs lies about the 2020 election. Platforms had finally begun taking these risks seriously only after the 2016 election. Now, faced with the prospect of disproportionate attacks on their employees, companies seem increasingly reluctant to make controversial decisions, letting misinformation and abuse fester in order to avoid provoking public retaliation.
I encourage you to use the gift link above and read the entire article. It is worth your time.
#twitter#twitter x#elon musk#donald trump#online disinformation#right wing extremism#harassment of trust and safety social media personnel#republicans#yoel roth#the new york times#gift link
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