• @[email protected]
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    8 months ago

    Here’s a big one:

    The 1987 repeal of the fairness doctrine enabled the rise of talk radio that has been described as “unfiltered” divisive and/or vicious: "In 1988, a savvy former ABC Radio executive named Ed McLaughlin signed Rush Limbaugh — then working at a little-known Sacramento station — to a nationwide syndication contract.

    • gradyp
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      88 months ago

      That shit really worked though. reagan used to be a punchline in our house back in the 80’s and 90’s (was default family knowledge that he was essentially a supervillain). These days, at least to certain relatives, he’s now basically a saint.

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        108 months ago

        Propaganda works. Period.

        Hitler knew it. Reagan knew it. Rupert Murdoch lives it every day. We are doomed to be fucked as long as corporate media rules.

        • gradyp
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          28 months ago

          every day feels just a bit closer to a dystopia.

      • @MegaUltraChicken
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        58 months ago

        And what’s even crazier is that if Reagan were to show up today with identical policies, those very same relatives would probably call him an evil leftist.