• CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldOP
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    13 hours ago

    Feel free to elaborate further here; I was just going for a quick one-line summary. The finer points of American media ownership are truly Lovecraftian.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s one company masquerading as several. It’s an as close to an absolute monopoly as you could get. It might even beat out Nestle or Pepsi co

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Feel free to elaborate further here

      There’s not really anything else, or I’d probably have said it already…

      Just weird to have someone ask me if they have any more questions. Like, if you want to learn about stuff, asking questions is a pretty important part of the proces

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        11 hours ago

        Just weird to have someone ask me if they have any more questions.

        Oh noes! People trying to engage on a social network explicitly created to foster discussion!

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          10 hours ago

          What?

          They didn’t ask any questions, they asked if there was anything else I should explain to them…

          (And to explain why that doesn’t make sense, is I have zero clue what else they don’t know)

          So I suggested they ask a question if they had any …

          And I legitimately don’t understand why you’d respond to that with:

          Oh noes! People trying to engage on a social network explicitly created to foster discussion!

          I just don’t understand what you are doing

      • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.worldOP
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        11 hours ago

        I have already asked you all the questions I have regarding the contours of the American media landscape. Thank you for offering your time and expertise.