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[-] Eldritch@piefed.world 182 points 2 weeks ago

It's owned by the Epstein class. You want them to expose themselves to anyone that isn't an under age girl in duress?

[-] mHtt@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 weeks ago

yup billionaires have cucked the legislatures

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Capitalism is incompatible with democracy. It's a form of government- oligarchy. It's more or less feudalism with extra math, and it's an active competitor of democracy and rule of law.

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 148 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In the US, it’s probably because most of the mainstream media is owned by conservatives.

Examples:

  • Rupert Murdoch owns Fox News, NY Post, and the Wall Street Journal.

  • CNN and CBS News (as weak as a number of other channels) are run by the Ellison family. There has been talk of making them sell CNN to someone else, but it hasn’t happened yet.

  • The Washington Post is owned by Amazon mogul, Jeff Bezos.

  • The Hill and NewsNation are owned by Nextstar (who also own the largest number of broadcast tv stations). Founded and run by Perry Sook.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 68 points 2 weeks ago

What's amusing is that for decades, conservatives have been howling about the "liberal media".

It was absurd when you had about 3 major corporate networks and a cable station like CNN doing all of the gatekeeping, but maybe a bit of diversity among the various papers - but it was hard to really tell people about the absurdity of that without the internet.

But now it's absolutely cartoonish to claim there is a "liberal media". And yet the right still do it.

New York Times is probably one of the last papers with the resources and the tradition of at least doing something akin to reality-based reporting, but they love to play the both-sides game. To the right, though, they represent some far-left fringe, LOL.

[-] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

conservatives have been howling about the “liberal media”.

That's because they're brain dead. "The hat is red, the brain is dead." And yes, some are malicious little pricks that knowingly spread bullshit for bait, trolling, and likes/subscriptions for their blather factories.

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago

The House of Mouse isn't conservative, but it tends to be complicit as fuck. Just go with the flow.

[-] 13igtyme@startrek.website 30 points 2 weeks ago

Disney is "liberal" or "progressive" when it's convenient for revenue, nothing more.

[-] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 weeks ago

Read The Extended Universe How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World. Disney is one of the shittiest companies.

[-] vividspecter@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

Socially progressive, economically conservative. I.e. "It's distasteful to be openly racist but I'll vote for policies that inflict economic harm on poor minorities."

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[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 90 points 2 weeks ago

Because the actual House Judiciary Committee report debunks his lies in the middle of an election -- and brings the receipts.

There are a lot of people even on Lemmy that are acting bored, "Why is this news?" and the like, but honestly anyone who is interested should read it for themselves: the REAL news is not in the headlines, or even in the articles that follow. The real news is in the redactions that have been uncovered in the report, what they hid, and the ability to view it as a whole instead of the usual media trickle truthing.

Every time someone posts a link, there's at least one or two people going, "We already knew this!" No. What you knew were the broad strokes. See page 25, for example: everyone knows Katie Johnson sued him for rape and then withdrew her suit, but you missed that Trump and Epstein have been linked to each other by the FBI in the context of child rape for almost twenty years.

If you want the quick overview of what I personally have noticed so far, look at my post history. From the day it came out I have been throwing it out there. But honestly, just skim the report. Or even just the press release, which is a shittily formatted but fairly good synopsis.

And when you do read further, keep in mind that this House report was never intended to be a fully-argued prosecution: rather, it is a specific, and incredibly damning, rebuttal against the current DoJ claims that there is not enough evidence to investigate known facts further. DoJ insists that there is no further evidence, no reason to investigate any further because no investigations = no prosecutions. This report is the Dem answer to that. It lays that purpose out up front, it says that throughout, and it wraps up with that in the end.

For every single person who brays, "No one will investigate!" that's just a lie. The MAGA Republicans currently in control of the US government refuse to investigate. This report is the Dem answer to that obvious lie. And they bring the proof.

No media article I have seen so far even got that little bit right. By design, I suspect.

That's what we get for relying on the media. If you want to know why it's news, read it yourself.

Also, you should know that Trump isn't alone in this. Vladimir Putin has a known predilection for little boys: that is the suspected reason for the fact that a man fluent in German and rising in KGB ranks never got posted abroad but was kept home, and why his official records are full of strange lacunae. It's not just Putin's "statecraft" that makes Trump love him like a daddy. Let's talk about that too.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People forgot that major news outlets are now owned by a handful of oligarchs. So, it's in their every interest to put the story under the rug.

[-] SecretiveVault@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

Exactly this. They're all owned by his friends, rich pedophile freaks with an addiction to hoarding wealth

[-] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Bingo! Look to the top of the organization charts or at least who funds them.

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[-] DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

Because there is nothing new there. Trump, a pedophile? I knew that already.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago

I agree with you, but I try not to be like this.

And that's because me being blasé or nonchalant about it all is exactly what the fat orange child rapist wants.
That disgusting human shaped thing knows everyone knows about the rapes of children and women but can not change that, however what can be changed is our tiredness and 'acceptance' of it all.

So now when I'm in the 'hmmm, I know he's a paedo' mode I change it to 'THAT FAT CUNT IS A FUCKING PAEDO. DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!' mode.

[-] DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

You're right, but I guess I am always in the 'THAT FAT CUNT IS A FUCKING PAEDO. DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!' mode, but that doesn't mean that him being fat, a cunt or a PAEDO is news worthy for me.

For me, I want to see him on death row, and I want the names of all those who are on his team, then the names of all those who support his ideologies, then the names of those who need re-education. That's the news I want.

I won't click on anything that says "yet another person accuses orange cunt man of rape". I've heard enough evidence, I want action now

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[-] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 31 points 2 weeks ago

It's truly a puzzler. Almost like the media is bought and sold by the rich. But that can't be it. Right? Right?!

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

And that media is absolutely saturated with scandals, one after another, it never ends. Zone flooded AF.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 weeks ago

The media is owned by billionaires with an agenda. They shape the narrative for all of us, for the most part.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 28 points 2 weeks ago

For the same reason they ignored the stunning old Trump-Epstein Allegations:

Because their owners on the surrounding pages doing the exact same thing.

[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Flood the zone" is quite literally the most effective political strategy in the past 100 years.

None of the new allegations are surprising at all. Anyone with two eyes who saw that video of Trump and Epstein at that party knows exactly what was happening.

But let's be real...what batshit crazy news could come out tomorrow that would really shock you? Right now, a few days before election day, we're all expecting what, troops at the polls? Martial law? Another Jan. 6? Do you really think the Trump ballroom or The Kennedy Center are real issues, or were they just looking for crazy shit to distract everyone? Lake America? Gulf of America?

Every day it's just more on top of more. New Epstein allegations are just noise on top of the already existing noise at this point.

I don't know how we can go back from this after how well "flood the zone" worked...

[-] Dylan@catodon.rocks 22 points 2 weeks ago

Probably because they're not new. They're largely many years old.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Too old for Trump?

[-] Hubi@feddit.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

And repeating well-established facts over and over again does not generate clicks.

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[-] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There are new things, like for example ex Miss Switzerland saying that Trump raped her.

I guess it is old, in the sense that pedos do more pedo stuff.

The way trump and people around him act it looks like putin already has all the details what they did.

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[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago

They are PAID to ignore that.

American news is just a bunch of millionaires daydreaming.

Why are they bothering us common folk? Don't they have a buttload of money to count.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

American news is just a bunch of millionaires daydreaming.

Millionaires paid by billionaires to lie to everyone.

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 20 points 2 weeks ago

Legacy media loves Trump. They created him and they will never betray him. Legacy media are all nazi cockroaches who should be treated as such.

Support independent media.

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[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 weeks ago

The media is complicit and everyone should know that by now

[-] SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk 17 points 2 weeks ago

The same ones they have always ignored?

[-] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] foodandart@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 weeks ago

Because Trump will sic FCC chair Brendan Carr on them, if they mention anything "bad" about Dear Leader.

Mainstream media's been cucked by a NY conman grifter with a penchant for lawsuits.

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[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

New Details of Trump Rape Allegation Revealed in Democrats’ Epstein Report https://share.google/PsDrRYcwQP6FoqGfb

Judiciary Democrats’ Report Details Mounting Evidence Linking Trump to Epstein’s Criminal Activities and DOJ’s Cover-Up; Specific Accounts Involving 11 Women Provide More Evidence of Potential Sex Crimes | U.S. House Judiciary Committee Democrats https://share.google/RjqBFxkQh1bMmLFE2

Trump-Epstein ties covered up, House Democrats allege | Miami Herald https://share.google/4bnWhgvwaR8o29UVV

Why Is the Media Ignoring the Stunning New Trump-Epstein Allegations? https://share.google/CMwPJxojm3eeNMc8q

Trump Rape Allegation Detailed in New House Epstein Report | Law Commentary https://share.google/3GblADMDGq1wkngnt

They're not.

If you mean why don't CNN, Fox, NBC, MSNBC, and whatever other mainstream cable 24-hour news aggregator consistently report on it... They're not really news agencies. They work and live on ratings. So they report whatever makes them money and should not be treated as news.

[-] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

The pedos own the media.

Because some of those who work forces, work in news offices.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Wore it out. We’ve heard nothing but trump=pedo forever now, people are fatigued with that information.

It doesn’t generate clicks anymore. So the news doesn’t care.

However, that mental 14 year old shitlord trump trash talking Talarico? They love covering that drivel.

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Because their masters are just jealous they didn't get to rape a thirteen year old virgin.

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[-] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why is the Media Ignoring the [...] allegations?

Because Americans ignored similar allegations last time and voted the shithead into power. If they didn't care then, why should they care now? Trump was a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist when they elected him. New allegations are just resume padding.

Edit: I meant rapist, not racist (though Trump is both)

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

because trump bought them out

[-] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago
[-] dermanus@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

Because unfortunately, at this point "Trump is a skeezy rapist" is a dog bites man story. It doesn't stand out.

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[-] Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Because anyone with half a brain has known this for ages. Trump and Epstein were business partners in the international child sex trafficking ring.

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