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RAGE AGAINST TYRANNY
The Case for Legacy Media
As the “mainstream” media fawn all over a convict racist, rapist President-elect, I am sickened. I’ve seen many writers suggesting that legacy media needs to die, to be replaced by virtual media like Medium, Substack, BlueSky, and other platforms that aren’t beholden to strong monied interests. While an intriguing idea, buoyed by better balanced reporting by citizen journalists as compared to paid pundits, I believe the peril of abandoning the MSM to the Reich cannot be understated.
It’s no secret that Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, and Epoch are propaganda outlets serving the Reich. MSNBC and CNN used to at least lean a little towards the center, but it seems both have moved strongly towards the right and are becoming more in alignment with the whims of corporate overlords. Remember when WaPO and the NYT had a shred of integrity? Clearly, that’s ancient history now, discarded in favor of profits over the good of the people.
We also cannot look away from the decimation of Xitter, reduced to a cesspool of hate and bile designed to influence, manipulate, and damage “other people” to the glory of one particular billionaire. Facebook has also been overrun by foreign interests to influence and manipulate, and as to Truth Social? Well, that is just the cruelest of irony.