- Joined
- Jan 5, 2021
This is more or less where I've arrived at. I do not view "news" as being anything other than a series of advertisements from multinational corporations and I do not view it as anything resembling facts. It is pretty much just a batch of malicious garbage that represents nothing other than what multinational corporations want you to believe, for whatever nefarious reasons they have.
Long ago, I was very confused when I’d see a Lockheed Martin advertisement on one of the major news channels. Why would they advertise here, let alone anywhere? Do they think someone watching the news is going to realize they need to buy some precision strike weapons systems?
It became much clearer after someone pointed out that Lockheed was buying up all those ads as a way of maintaining influence over the news channel’s coverage. Oh, you’re going to run a story that’s negative press for Lockheed? Guess we’re pulling those ads. Bye bye to a big chunk of your revenue.
Just one of a million ways the system is rigged from the top. And this one is relatively subtle. (see also the Washington Post, owned by the world’s richest man, running “we can’t afford to send out $2000 checks” editorials)