Media Bias
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oldngray
nowhere special
87% of fox and friends viewers polled are fans of nickelback...
are youing retarded?
Only if you believe that poll.
moreluck
golden ticket member
What's a nickelback???87% of fox and friends viewers polled are fans of nickelback...
are you
El Correcto
god is dead
You’re not supposed to use that word anymore.
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
A music group that had one good song.
moreluck
golden ticket member
They are very limited when they try to do a "Best of" album!!
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
Rania KhalekVerified account @RaniaKhalek Oct 4
It’s crazy how many former spooks have been hired at corporate news outlets like CNN & MSNBC as “analysts”. After spending their careers serving the national security state, they get to shape the news under the guise of expertise. It’s like state TV
It’s crazy how many former spooks have been hired at corporate news outlets like CNN & MSNBC as “analysts”. After spending their careers serving the national security state, they get to shape the news under the guise of expertise. It’s like state TV
all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others:
Omar Baddar
@OmarBaddar
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21h
She wouldn't do it if it was Jeffrey Epstein or Harvey Weinstein (b/c the victims look like "us"), but some guy killed a few hundred thousands brown people 7,000 miles away? Minor disagreement, look how open-minded we are looking past little differences.
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Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
· Oct 8
"I’m friends with George W. Bush" - @TheEllenShow, explaining why she was sitting next to the torturer and war criminal, laughing it up at a football game, reflecting the prevailing liberal ethos: https://huffpostbrasil.com/entry/ellen-de
Omar Baddar
@OmarBaddar
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21h
She wouldn't do it if it was Jeffrey Epstein or Harvey Weinstein (b/c the victims look like "us"), but some guy killed a few hundred thousands brown people 7,000 miles away? Minor disagreement, look how open-minded we are looking past little differences.
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Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
· Oct 8
"I’m friends with George W. Bush" - @TheEllenShow, explaining why she was sitting next to the torturer and war criminal, laughing it up at a football game, reflecting the prevailing liberal ethos: https://huffpostbrasil.com/entry/ellen-de
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Vincent Bevins
@Vinncent
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21h
thought experiment if George W Bush killed a million white people in europe in a war based on lies with no appreciable positive outcome for anyone involved would celebrities still love 2 chill with him
Vincent Bevins
@Vinncent
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21h
thought experiment if George W Bush killed a million white people in europe in a war based on lies with no appreciable positive outcome for anyone involved would celebrities still love 2 chill with him
INCREDIBLE HULK WANTS JUSTICE!
WE NEED TO HULK SMASH GEORGE BUSH!
Mark Ruffalo
@MarkRuffalo
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1h
Sorry, until George W. Bush is brought to justice for the crimes of the Iraq War, (including American-lead torture, Iraqi deaths & displacement, and the deep scars—emotional & otherwise—inflicted on our military that served his folly), we can’t even begin to talk about kindness.
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VANITY FAIR
@VanityFair
· 20h
For decades, Ellen DeGeneres has been the sunny representative for a brighter world we might all live in if we were kinder to one another. But that imagined utopia seems increasingly out of touch with reality Ellen DeGeneres, George W. Bush, and the Limits of Unconditional Kindness
WE NEED TO HULK SMASH GEORGE BUSH!
Mark Ruffalo
@MarkRuffalo
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1h
Sorry, until George W. Bush is brought to justice for the crimes of the Iraq War, (including American-lead torture, Iraqi deaths & displacement, and the deep scars—emotional & otherwise—inflicted on our military that served his folly), we can’t even begin to talk about kindness.
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VANITY FAIR
@VanityFair
· 20h
For decades, Ellen DeGeneres has been the sunny representative for a brighter world we might all live in if we were kinder to one another. But that imagined utopia seems increasingly out of touch with reality Ellen DeGeneres, George W. Bush, and the Limits of Unconditional Kindness
INCREDIBLE HULK WANTS JUSTICE!
WE NEED TO HULK SMASH GEORGE BUSH!
Mark Ruffalo
@MarkRuffalo
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1h
Sorry, until George W. Bush is brought to justice for the crimes of the Iraq War, (including American-lead torture, Iraqi deaths & displacement, and the deep scars—emotional & otherwise—inflicted on our military that served his folly), we can’t even begin to talk about kindness.
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VANITY FAIR
@VanityFair
· 20h
For decades, Ellen DeGeneres has been the sunny representative for a brighter world we might all live in if we were kinder to one another. But that imagined utopia seems increasingly out of touch with reality Ellen DeGeneres, George W. Bush, and the Limits of Unconditional Kindness
No bias coming from a B list actor whose last job was reading an audiobook written by Bernie Sanders!
is he wrong about what he said about ellen? is ellen honest? is ellen a hypocrite?
CNN and big media are huge welfare queens, they use public airwaves to lie to us, and pay nothing!
Katie Halper
@kthalps
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5h
I don't know what to say except that until 2016 I had no idea that "liberal media" could be as bad as Fox. It's sickening and gaslighting and insulting to anyone who either likes Sanders or just cares about journalistic ethics. They're so flagrant about their bias.
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Eli Valley
@elivalley
· 9h
Happy Halloween from CNN’s graphics team
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Katie Halper
@kthalps
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5h
I don't know what to say except that until 2016 I had no idea that "liberal media" could be as bad as Fox. It's sickening and gaslighting and insulting to anyone who either likes Sanders or just cares about journalistic ethics. They're so flagrant about their bias.
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Eli Valley
@elivalley
· 9h
Happy Halloween from CNN’s graphics team
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ELLEN D = LIBERAL
RICKYB = NOT A LIBERAL
Esha
@eshaLegal
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10h
It should teach us to punish all war criminals to the fullest extent of the law or else liberals will rehabilitate them and engage in historical erasure.
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Chris Cillizza
@CillizzaCNN
· Oct 8
What the friendship of Ellen DeGeneres and George W. Bush should teach us Ellen DeGeneres and George W. Bush: What their friendship teaches us - CNNPolitics
RICKYB = NOT A LIBERAL
Esha
@eshaLegal
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10h
It should teach us to punish all war criminals to the fullest extent of the law or else liberals will rehabilitate them and engage in historical erasure.
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Chris Cillizza
@CillizzaCNN
· Oct 8
What the friendship of Ellen DeGeneres and George W. Bush should teach us Ellen DeGeneres and George W. Bush: What their friendship teaches us - CNNPolitics
Jacobin on Twitter
michael moore getting booed by hollywood in 2003 academy awards for speaking out against iraq war.
michael moore getting booed by hollywood in 2003 academy awards for speaking out against iraq war.
theres never ending amazing feed on twitter:
Secular Talk
@KyleKulinski
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Oct 8
Yes we get it be kind to people you disagree with yadda yadda. We have families, this is obvious. The issue w/ Ellen & Bush is that he's a torturer war criminal w the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents on his hands, he's never faced justice & its spun as a 'disagreement'
Secular Talk
@KyleKulinski
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Oct 8
Yes we get it be kind to people you disagree with yadda yadda. We have families, this is obvious. The issue w/ Ellen & Bush is that he's a torturer war criminal w the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents on his hands, he's never faced justice & its spun as a 'disagreement'
Operational needs
Virescit Vulnere Virtus
Netflix, aside from losing money, has also slowly reconstructed the old vertically integrated studio system. The company is an integrated production and streaming service; if you want to distribute through Netflix, you work increasingly on Netflix’s terms, and vice versa. And Netflix pushes whatever content it wants at Netflix users, based on whatever algorithm it chooses. This is a similar story as Amazon, which spends large amounts of money on content, with content being a mostly minor part of its otherwise massive business. These are long-term predatory pricing plays, with predatory pricing meaning selling below cost to acquire market power, a practice that used to be illegal prior to the 1980s. Of course, these rules are not absolute; powerful creatives still have leverage, but the broad middle of creators do not.
Netflix and Amazon are driving what I call “Concentration Creep” across the industry. Concentration Creep means that consolidation in one part of an industry causes consolidation in other parts. Disney, for instance, is trying to mimic Netflix by launching what may be a below-cost streaming service. It also bought Fox’s media assets, so it can bulk up and gain market power. And Trump’s Antitrust chief, Makan Delrahim, is considering getting rid of the Paramount Consent Decrees, which might prompt Amazon or Netflix to simply buy a movie theater chain.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the only goal now in Hollywood is to gain market power in distribution or must-have content production, and then use that monopoly power to reduce the quality of output and reduce the bargaining leverage of artists. Even the agents, who are supposed to represent artists, are getting into the vertical integration game. The net effect is higher prices, less pay to artists, a less creative industry, and ultimately, the death of the Hollywood ecosystem of storytelling.
Such a dynamic isn’t just a problem in terms of a more arid artistic world, but is a political and national security problem. We learn a lot from our movies and TV shows, including about politics and geo-politics. The U.S. military tends to subsidize movies that make them look good; with fewer producers of movies, such subsidies will have more impact, and perhaps make it less likely artists criticize the state or powerful corporations. But the free expression problem imports overt government censorship into America and the entire West.
The Slow Death of Hollywood
Netflix and Amazon are driving what I call “Concentration Creep” across the industry. Concentration Creep means that consolidation in one part of an industry causes consolidation in other parts. Disney, for instance, is trying to mimic Netflix by launching what may be a below-cost streaming service. It also bought Fox’s media assets, so it can bulk up and gain market power. And Trump’s Antitrust chief, Makan Delrahim, is considering getting rid of the Paramount Consent Decrees, which might prompt Amazon or Netflix to simply buy a movie theater chain.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the only goal now in Hollywood is to gain market power in distribution or must-have content production, and then use that monopoly power to reduce the quality of output and reduce the bargaining leverage of artists. Even the agents, who are supposed to represent artists, are getting into the vertical integration game. The net effect is higher prices, less pay to artists, a less creative industry, and ultimately, the death of the Hollywood ecosystem of storytelling.
Such a dynamic isn’t just a problem in terms of a more arid artistic world, but is a political and national security problem. We learn a lot from our movies and TV shows, including about politics and geo-politics. The U.S. military tends to subsidize movies that make them look good; with fewer producers of movies, such subsidies will have more impact, and perhaps make it less likely artists criticize the state or powerful corporations. But the free expression problem imports overt government censorship into America and the entire West.
The Slow Death of Hollywood
