A group of people carrying Nazi flags demonstrated outside a Michigan community theater performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in a display of antisemitism.

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A group of people carrying Nazi flags demonstrated outside a Michigan community theater performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in a display of antisemitism.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If you’re wondering why CNN is calling them “demonstrators” and not “actual fucking nazis”…

    The billionaires weren’t shy about why they bought CNN:

    “I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”

    https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column

    And they don’t care if what they’re saying is true anymore, they care if people believe it’s true already:

    Zaslav said this past week there was a new [YouGov] poll showing overall trust in the U.S. for CNN up 11 points. “That’s what we are going for. Our view is there’s advocacy networks on either side, that we have the best journalists in the world, we need to show both sides of every issue.”

    https://deadline.com/2023/05/cnn-republicans-warner-bros-discovery-david-zaslav-1235371510/

    When one side is literal nazis, showing both sides means treating Nazis like normal demonstrators.

    None of these billionaires are buying up media to inform people, or even just to make more money.

    They buy them to control the narrative. So that regardless of what party someone votes for, the wealthy always win