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[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 240 points 2 months ago

Can't let people say the truth, it would inconvenience your masters.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 215 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The news reporter wanted a feel good puff piece regardless of how inappropriate it is. The interviewee wanted to report the actual news.

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The company that owns that NBC affiliate wanted a feel good puff piece. I doubt she had a say in the matter.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, she's just following orders.

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

But it wasn’t inappropriate…

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To the holding company it is.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago

hoarding company*

🤌🏼

[–] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

A misunderstanding on your part I thinks. I believe they are saying it was inappropriate to attempt to sanitize reality so they could release a "feel good puff piece".

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 157 points 2 months ago (6 children)

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

[–] Lupus@feddit.org 80 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Careful with that quote, it's by Kevin Alfred Strom a Neo-Nazi from an 1993 essay in the national Vanguard, a white nationalist publication and it refers to the antisemitic trope of world Judaism.

I'm not criticizing you, just want to contextualize it because it could be misconstrued to be a antisemitic dog-whistle, especially in the context of the linked article.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 months ago (6 children)

It's an axiomatic truism. It's logic is self contained.

To learn who is wet, simply find out who is in the water.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 2 months ago

Self contained within nature's perfect geometry, a circle.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago

Well, that just means he has experience ruling over people, and not allowing them to criticize him.

That means it's valid.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I knew it was the kids with cancer all along!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah! Those littlebrats have had it too easy for too long!

Well not that long EACH, but you know 🤷

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[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 90 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It really makes you wonder how these reporters are trained. What else can they not talk about on air?

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anything that goes against the values of Sinclair or NexStar would be off the table.

[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago

So general common sense like fuck ICE and free Palestine?

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago

Pretty much everything that isn't on their script, IIRC.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 83 points 2 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] Sundiata@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

she smiles like the woman from ba sing se,

the back in the 90s part screams body language of desperation to signal to him to play along and say what she wants him to say.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 76 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She was trying to do a fluff piece interview, and he was trying to drop hard facts. I'm glad he didn't back down on his points.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Haven't watched it but sounds like someone with strong convictions and an idea why things are the way they are. Hopefully eventually enough people recognize the fact that we need a functional society that allows the random person to feel comfortable. Cause if you get enough itchy people things get scratched.

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Haven’t watched it

It's a 30 second clip mate

[–] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

30 seconds of sound when you're pooping on the toilet at work, is 30 seconds too much sound. Hypothetically speaking.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You sit idly pooping while so much of the housing stock in the US is owned by hedge funds?

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[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 74 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Crazy how fast she pulled back on that. Like she has been trained to not allow that sort of talk. It was almost instant.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From to in an instant!

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A dog watching another dog bite the hand that feeds her.

[–] commander@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago

As unhinged as social media gets, this is pretty much why so many end up trusting it over traditional media. The internet broke the veil of commercial reporting/journalism - media in general. Broke the trust on accepting public personas and not being suspicious of them behind the scenes. Sell out reporters/journalist/artists/etc are like scabs to labor strikers

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

If the fediverse can focus on integrating content from from other fediverse sources extremely organically, the fediverse will win. I shouldn't have to leave Lemmy to watch this video.

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You need to leave? I could just watch it on the timeline. Using jerboa, I guess it depends on client.

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[–] aka@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago

It's embedded for me ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Time for a new client, it sounds like 🖖🏼🤓

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[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

-"Snow is pretty"

-"Mmhmm, so private equity owns..."

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 months ago

She pulled back the microphone mid sentence when he refused to let the conversation get derailed.

Very sus

[–] ambientdread@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

A+ for staying on message.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Legend. Came back to his point with a friendly smile, and plenty of grace

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[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They better never interview me on live TV. Ill be asking the reporter where they will be hiding when the revolution comes.

https://youtu.be/IwvrGHsjD7g

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Don't worry, they'd make sure that clip of you'd never make it to air. 🫡

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 months ago

And this is why legacy media is legacy media.

[–] thlibos@thelemmy.club 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

She knows exactly what she is doing. She probably wouldn't even get into any trouble if she had let the guy go on for a bit since it is just a random, live interview. Doesn't matter, though, as boot-fellating, spittle-licking toadies will instantly and hungrily provide cover for the owner class. There will always be a critical mass of just about every demographic (even those you would not expect it from) who will be willing to sell out for that payday. If she doesn't try to silence or steamroll any even remotely anti-greed rhetoric she might be passed over for that next promotion.

Shout out to Washington Heights. I used to live at Fort Washington and 181st. I miss it.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like NBC needs to study and read socialist theory. Seriously! https://redsails.org/

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

They probably did, but decided to pick the side of the billionaire class/got told by their owners (the billionaire class) that they were to pick the side of the billionaire class in order to facilitate the continued exploitation of ordinary people

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

Operation Mockingbird 2.0 - Totalitarian Domination by controlling the narrative.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 months ago

Basically trying to nostalgia bait people but buddy saw right through it and went in for the kill.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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