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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 139 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Another one:

Epstein is a convicted sex offender. They keep calling him, "disgraced Financier"

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 19 points 2 months ago

They dont want the other financiers tarred with the same brush, even though the capitalist scum deserve it.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Even that's too soft for him, makes him sound like the creep who moved in down the block.

In reality, he was the most connected and influential international child sex trafficker in history. "Convicted sex offender" sounds like one of his customers.

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[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I watched the first few hours of his interview that leaked. That man had a room temperature IQ. No one was asking him for financial advice.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Eh.

He wasn’t the kind of financier that handled accounts, he was the kind that had connections and when you needed a loan knew who could hook you up.

Of course, his real line of work was trafficking children.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago (6 children)

They're not sugarcoating it, they're normalizing it...

And the answer to "why" for all those questions is oligarchs bought the news stations after Clinton de-regulated it with the Telecoms act of 1996.

The media isn't run for the sake of journalism, it's not even run for profit anymore. The oligarchs goobled it all up so they could influence everyone else, and they don't like it when anyone from their class is held accountable for anything.

It's the same as when medieval royalty would always side with each other no matter what.

They don't see us as the same species as them.

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't want to risk missing out on precious clicks and shares due to keyword-sensitive advertiser friendliness algorithms.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That could be part of it. But the main reason is the same as what we saw during the manufacturing of consent for the Palestinian Genocide.

Israeli Citizens Slaughtered by Hamas

54 Palestinians dead after Israeli targeted strike of Hamas leaders

Palestinians "die" in news headlines. Israelis are slaughtered.

It got as bad as media giving us headlines of "Israeli hostage kidnapped from tank". Not even kidding. They labeled an IDF soldier in a tank as a kidnapped hostage. We have a word for that already: prisoner of war.

Once you notice this type of passive language used to describe the crimes of who the US government supports vs. who it sees as an enemy. Man, you'll start to go crazy at noticing how much it's used.

Journalist and talking heads on TV are told exactly what vocabulary to use when covering a specific topic. It's more directed at the interest of those in power and those with wealth than it is to fit an algorithm.

I mean, the people directing the vocabulary are the same group of people that ensure that algorithm favors them. They allow very extreme vocabulary like "rape" or "beheadings" through their filters when they want to lie about something that favors their narrative.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Journalist and talking heads on TV are told exactly what vocabulary to use when covering a specific topic. It’s more directed at the interest of those in power and those with wealth than it is to fit an algorithm.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (6 children)

The "news" is the same people as the accused. It's all the ultra wealthy ruling class. They are also destroying the environment with fossil fuels, buying up livable property and jacking up the rates, shorting water stocks and such, etc.

Their time may be up soon, but I want to see them rot in prison, not the other option, because that'll be way more chaotic and could lead to worse outcomes.

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Have you checked who owns big media corporations? 🤔

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

People who rape children.

At this point it's on the wealthy to prove they aren't child rapists. Epstein is just one of many and there is zero reason to assume others like him are not still operating.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

They also own big troll farms manufacturing consent.

There's a reason most social media is as opaque (algorithms, moderation et.al) as they can be.

These media corporations and troll farms work together to push a subtle narrative manufactured by their handlers.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 months ago

“Adolescent women” to refer to a 13 year old was used in that one witness account of the women who worked as a recruiter for his parties.

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 30 points 2 months ago

More like the people that own these news companies are also in the files and tweaking the narrative as a result. Something something follow the money something

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (13 children)

The minimization is CRAZY. Like people are saying "Oh, no, he didn't rape the kid he just had sex with her." Like the child CONSENTED to it. Sex, by definition, is engaging in sexual pleasure with both persons consent.

Our country that was fought for by thousands of soldiers, many whom died for this land, so we could have freedom and a break away from the king of Britain. He was a dictator, and now we are in the company of one such other dictator. A rat, who gained entry only by his father's money and influence. Who used that influence and abused it, who corrupted young minds and brainwashed people to believe that he was doing good.

That he was making America great again.

When the only thing he did for us was give us empty promises, and shoved us down the path of an emptier future.

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[–] CityPop@lemmy.today 22 points 2 months ago

The media machine is complicit with the state. Always has been.

[–] humanamerican@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 months ago

🎼 Some of those who work newsrooms

Are the same who rape kiddos

SHILLING IN THE NAME OF! 🎶

[–] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

X.com? Supporting the abusers, i see.

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[–] pipi1234@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Distorsión of reality by linguistic manipulation.

This is straight out of 1984 book:

In the novel, "Newspeak" wasn't just about being concise; it was designed to shrink the vocabulary so much that "heretical" thoughts became literally impossible because the words for them no longer existed.

Here is a breakdown of how linguistic manipulation distorts reality, both in the book and in our world:

1. The Erasure of Nuance

In 1984, if you wanted to say something was "terrible," you just said it was ungood.

By removing "bad," "terrible," and "horrific," the emotional weight of the experience is flattened.

  • The Result: When we lose specific words for our feelings or experiences, our ability to think critically about those experiences atrophies.
[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ungood is very similar to "unalived"...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] pipi1234@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They took a literary warning about totalitarian regimes and used it as manual to implement a totalitarian regime.

It would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous.

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[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You could say doubleplusungood.

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago

"Underage female". I'll never forget this.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago (5 children)

To actually answer the question:

Because most of the old media functionally has the CIA as an editorial board.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 12 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I wouldn't describe Noam as left wing, he's advocating for Ukraine's unilateral surrender rn. He's just Red Fascist.

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[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's called "sane-washing" and the media won't stop doing it. Even NPR, though less so recently.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You would think with their funding cut off they would stop doing the "fair and balanced" act and stop carrying water for Republican liars.

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because the news is largely owned by the oligarchy.

[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How the fuck was I your first upvote? You're spitting pure fact. Our MSM "news" is mostly owned by right-wing billionaires AKA oligarchs.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 15 points 2 months ago

What's even more fucked is just how personally responsible Epstein is to the modern right wing movement. While online Nazis and crass as fuck assholes were common, the way how they became such a concerted and active and effective politicial movement was done entirely through Epstein motivated and funded shit.

You know how so many major gaming channels always make a ton of right wing advocacy? Their money and funding came from the motherfucker and his network.

I remember when online gaming channels were AVGN type fun stuff. Either with retro or with modern games.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Totally agree, but it is also our responsibility to stop consuming it. Stop using X before chomo musk starts his Social Education addon. When everyone is logging into S E X and seeing pictures of AI generated naked children will people finally stop!?

Seriously get the fuck off X! I am going to start considering anyone still using that platform a supporter of child rape.

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[–] lemmyuser345@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

American media engage in censorship that people don't see. They soften the language and cherrypick the facts.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is why you should get your news from alternative media. I usually recommend Breaking Points. There's even a reporter on their staff that punched Jesse Watters in the face once.

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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 2 months ago

Look at who owns the news that are hiding the reality of the situation. Look at who they're beholden to.

[–] MadBits@europe.pub 9 points 2 months ago

The fact that mainstream media constantly does that it just shows you on who's side they are. They wouldn't talk about it at all, but they need to wash their karma somehow.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People need to be calling out networks and reporters/authors by name for doing this. Stop blaming "they" and put a name on it.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

The other night I listened to the PBS News Hour characterizing grok's AI child pornography as "explicit" and "putting women into bathing suits".

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

mind that most of these people would otherwise refer to women as girls. it's deliberate.

Even the term "soliciting prostitution with a minor" really shouldn't exist because it implies some sort of consent by the minor.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was a bit miffed to discover that, during the current fall of america, most media, whether right, middle or left leaning, proved to us they'll fiddle with the truth for money and clicks. Fuck capitalism. We the people?, or we the money?

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The same people who are in the files run the media. Not 100% positive, but this might have something to do with it.

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