My area recently banned a tipped wage; tipped workers now have to be paid minimum wage. Article after article now is talking about how restaurants are suddenly going to go out of business because their razor thin margins means they can't afford to pay their people! Oh noes! Meanwhile I know a number of restaurants near me that already paid a living wage and some that even provide healthcare and they have been open and doing fine for a long time. Media is completely useless when talking about good things basically.

I'm always shocked that people in my world aren't leftist, but I forget that I just don't watch television news.

category 1 UlysseysT tier incoherent rage posting (feel free to take this positively if you were going for it)

I'm always awed at how terrible of a format TV news is in general. I'm so used to posting that I take if for granted that if you say some dumb shit people can call you out, ask for sources, provide additional context, etc. Yeah internet discourse often sucks too but the format at least allows for some kind of back-and-forth discussion and fact-checking. TV news is unironically 1984 dystopian propaganda regardless of what channel or program you're watching. The only viewpoints represented are from people rich enough to run a channel, and they have complete control over which issues get how much attention and what kind of framing, and opposing views are only ever presented to be framed as ridiculous. And on top of that, you spend as much time watching ads as the actual program.

A Current Affair is literally fascist propaganda

I first learned how bullshit these "A Current Affair" programs were when I was a teenager. A group of us kids played a game in the park in the city centre, near a shopping centre. It was basically just tips (or "tag" to Americans) and the rules were clear that we weren't allowed to go into the shops. Some people did anyway. Our local current affair program ran a news story on us, framing it as a group of "rowdy kids" deliberately going into the shops to knock people down and vandalise stores. They just straight up lied the entire segment. They interviewed a mate of mine for about 20 minutes, but they only used a single soundbite from him to make him say the exact opposite of what he was actually saying the entire time.

Posted to the dunk tank because we don't really have a rant space.

They told me to rant on c/main :)

Owl, please tell me you were not watching Tracy Grimshaw

(this is different to the bow tie guy)