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You might be interested in Matt Taibbi's Hate Inc. Large amounts of it are available online to read through his substack page and the parts that require a subscription I posted in the Luckbox vs Media thread.

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People need to start understanding the news not as “the news,” but as just such an individualized consumer experience

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The news, basically, is bait to lure you in to a pen where you can be sold sneakers or bath soaps or prostatitis cures or whatever else studies say people of your age, gender, race, class, and political bent tend to buy.

Sums it up pretty well imo!

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05-23-2020 , 10:05 PM

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Make that three.

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05-23-2020 , 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by d2_e4

I think you two might need a room.

https://youtu.be/2S1qDdq0Zws?t=31

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05-23-2020 , 10:34 PM

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i feel like this thread is some kind of introduction to what american news channels are to someone who spent 30 years in a time capsule or under a rock. but he just randomly wants to really really focus on CNN and how he thinks its awful because he loves trump.

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05-23-2020 , 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by neverbeclever

https://youtu.be/2S1qDdq0Zws?t=31

Also shocking that you're a wrestling fan. Man, you're just full of surprises.

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05-23-2020 , 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Slighted

I'm sure there is a Fritzl joke here somewhere...

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05-23-2020 , 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Slighted

Thanks, thats exactly how i feel!!!
Go to Europe...and experience how press/media was 30 years ago.
Whats normal for u guys...its absurd over here.

I dont care for Trump...why should I? (not from usa)
(But i like him for entertainment value yesss!)

Apparently its normal in usa that an anchor has its own private moment/talk show on the air nation wide...

I might be living under a rock...but if u think thats normal (in other parts of the world) u have been hiding somewhere as well.

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05-23-2020 , 11:06 PM

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Also shocking that you're a wrestling fan. Man, you're just full of surprises.

I am! (actually i was...WWF era)
Admit it was funny!-)

I think i should have choose another name for this topic.
A lot of people go bezerk on Trump...while i was only interested in CNN.

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05-23-2020 , 11:09 PM

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They'll find a way to make it about Trump in any thread you started. Many of them didn't even know there was a such a thing called politics until Trump was elected. So don't kick yourself too much there.

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05-23-2020 , 11:35 PM

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Luckbox, you never did confirm whether it was Tommy Lee Jones & Will Smith who were after you. I feel you at least owe us this.

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05-23-2020 , 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by neverbeclever

I am! (actually i was...WWF era)
Admit it was funny!-)

I think i should have choose another name for this topic.
A lot of people go bezerk on Trump...while i was only interested in CNN.

There's a thing in America called Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). It's a well known phenomenon which seems to drive normally sane people crazy. These people become irrational and unhinged. The media are particularly afflicted. Don lemon is an extreme example of this phenomenon.

However it's not only the media as you can see it in these forums as well. Many of the leftists around here start frothing at the mouth whenever a Trump supporter dares to defend Trump.

They will call you a racist, a fascist, a nazi all sorts of derogatory insults. They seem to be very fragile sort of people who are easily triggered.

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05-24-2020 , 12:03 AM

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Good one, Joey, good one. Is this how you groom all your boyfriends?

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05-24-2020 , 12:36 AM

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Lesson learned...any topic containing the word ''Trump'' will get derailed right?

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05-24-2020 , 03:50 AM

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Yeah, not so much derailed. Deranged is probably a more fitting description

Orange man bad is the only acceptable opinion around here. Orange man being Trump, by the way. If you deviate from that, BOOM. You get the Don lemon treatment. You're a nazi, you're a fascist. You know, that sort of thing.

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05-24-2020 , 08:09 AM

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Hehe, good one!
One guy in here even came up with proof that people on the left were smarter than those on the right. Guess not everybody was included in that test.

Anyway, everybody gets the network they deserve.
(Accept for me cause i can only receive CNN lol!)

But anyway, ive learned alot here on how media works in the USA.
But what i would love to see is that Trump does something undeniable great, and see how CNN sells that!?

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05-24-2020 , 08:37 AM

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Hehe, good one!
One guy in here even came up with proof that people on the left were smarter than those on the right. Guess not everybody was included in that test.

Who got left out?

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05-24-2020 , 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by d2_e4

Luckbox, you never did confirm whether it was Tommy Lee Jones & Will Smith who were after you. I feel you at least owe us this.

It was them but how did you know?

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05-24-2020 , 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc

It was them but how did you know?

Stab in the dark.

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05-24-2020 , 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by d2_e4

Who got left out?

Dunno...i only know i was not invited.

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05-24-2020 , 09:36 AM

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Dunno...i only know i was not invited.

Don't worry about it - joe6pack propped up the averages in your absence.

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05-24-2020 , 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by d2_e4

Don't worry about it - joe6pack propped up the averages in your absence.

True!

In the meantime...why dont u start a Biden vs. Fox topic!?
Oh wait, nvm, u cant troll there...

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05-24-2020 , 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc

Only for those not paying attention. Sure Trump ran on the media being the "enemy of the people" (they are)--but the right-wing nature of the media has been observed long before Trump came around. My professor who was calling NPR National Petroleum Radio was doing so 20 years ago. And Manufacturing Consent was published in 1988. So there have been people who have long understood that the media is a tool of the ruling class.

I feel like I remember that moniker from at least back around ExxonValdez maybe?? It's been around a long time either way.

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05-24-2020 , 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by neverbeclever

True!

In the meantime...why dont u start a Biden vs. Fox topic!?
Oh wait, nvm, u cant troll there...

No, I can't, but you can, so go for it!

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05-24-2020 , 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by joe6pack

Yes, republicans have a track record of using that term to attack everybody while they defend the psychos they unleash on the country. And then after the person's out of office they throw em under the bus and claim they hated him the whole time.

And as far as throwing around the term 'nazi' goes I'm pretty sure it was Limbaugh that brought that lovely little nugget to prominence screeching about femme-nazis every 5seconds back in the day

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