• Tujio@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Watching football on CBS right now. The commercials are military recruitment ads. The network promos are for cop shows. The 60 Minutes spot is a puff piece on bourbon barrels (you know, America’s liquor).

    It took less than a year for them to go from halfway respectable to full fascism.

    Would you like to know more?

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      12 hours ago

      For decades, CBS had the reputation as being the Gold Standard of broadcast news. Now they’re just one more mouthpiece for the Conservative Propaganda Machine, and it’s only going to get worse. Their taking control of the news first, because that’s on a 24 hour cycle, so you can make a fast impact.

      Next will be seasonal programming. They might be able to influence some show that’s are being currently shot for the Spring, but we should really see some difference in the Fall line-up. I’m expecting a lot of Copaganda.

      They ruin everything the contact. I grew up reading National Geographic every month for decades, and a few years ago they sold to Fox. Suddenly, at least every other cover had a religious theme, and many of the rest had to do with Confederate history. It was literally the finest publication on the planet, and the Conservative Propaganda Machine ruined it.

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      17 hours ago

      Fucking fuck. Immediately after I posted this they literally ran an ICE recruitment ad.