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Agreed. Makes more sense when you remember who owns the majority of media companies.

Retirement funds and endowments? ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN are all part of publicly owned companies are they not?

Murdoc

What’s really amazing is how WPP and Rupert Murdoch played the “oh look at what Pewdiepie is saying on YouTube. Does {brand} want its ads placed on it? Meanwhile, they’re trying to bully YouTube into giving them all the data about YouTube visitors.

PewDiePie is a Swedish YouTube comedian apparently, in case anyone else found that reference obscure.

He is also the most subscribed youtuber at 109M subscribers IIRC.

And a new york times bestseller, if mainstream appeal metrics are desired.

There’s also an Indian channel, T-Series, at 178M.

He said most subscribed youtuber (as in an individual creator) rather than most subscribed channel.

Pewdiepies videos aren't made by one man, though he is the face.

Thank you. Still trying to figure out what Server Message Blocks have to do with all this :)

Small, medium sized businesses?

This behaviour is normalized for a while, the wall street journal wasn't an outlier back then, but now it seems to be also expected when working for big media outlets, just look at the recent Georgia debacle. Activists disguised as journalists pressure companies to act in their favour or they will throw a fit.

European here, not sure if I follow you.

Is this about the Georgia law forbidding giving water to people waiting in line to vote?

I'm about half-way through Chomsky and Herman's propaganda model laid out in "Manufacturing Consent". Corporate ownership of media houses is said to be the first censorship filter that determines which angles of a policy debate get highlighted and which ones don't. Along with reading Matt Taibbi's "Hate, Inc.", where Chomsky's model is extended to post-internet US media, I can't begin to describe how much of the US media coverage of these issues has begun to make sense to me.

As Chomsky points out, propaganda is still useful information, since the angles being portrayed in a debate tells us what a societal elite wants us to see (and conversely, not see)

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