Journalistic skepticism isn't magically exempt when someone dies

Within hours of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s death by a gunman in Midtown Manhattan, the major media went full North Korea, lavishing praise on the sainted business leader. The Washington Post reported that the “smart and affable” Thompson had a “focus on keeping premiums low,” citing an unnamed company staffer who we’re to believe “spoke on condition of anonymity to protect their job.”

  • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
    401·
    3 days ago

    Media is one of the key gears of the regime.

    I never understood why working class took them at face value.

    These people are enemies and should be treated as such.

    • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      The communication ideological state apparatus, in Althusserian terms, a form of violence and repression in a kinder, gentler package.