• @ummthatguyEnglish
    37•4 months ago

    But don’t worry. It all works out in the end, right?

    • @[email protected]
      3•4 months ago

      This guy seems so over the top and self-contradictory. In his drive for infinite profit, he insists on funding a TV show with failing ratings.

      Then I think back to libertarians funding ridiculous ventures of their own. This guy actually exists.

  • BruceTwarzen
    27•4 months ago

    I mean yeah, but antivaxxers and flat earthers also look at this and go: so true.

    • @[email protected]
      19•4 months ago

      There’s a long history of fascists taking the same set of facts that leftists use, and then running in completely the opposite directions. Nazis would tell you that the banks were terrible institutions sucking the life out of the working class, and then take a sudden turn and say “and they’re all run by Jews”.

  • Nik282000
    19•4 months ago

    This film was not meant to be an instruction manual for the future.

  • @_wizard
    18•4 months ago

    Do not try and misquote this scene. It’s far too strong of message already. Don’t taint it.

  • @[email protected]
    13•4 months ago

    I watched this movie for the first time last year and it’s shocking how relevant it still is. Aside from the fashions, you could have told me it was made last year and I’d believe you.

  • @Custodian1623
    2•4 months ago

    I’ve seen more than a couple threads on lemmy with people riled up over articles not telling them what to think

  • @[email protected]
    0•4 months ago

    He’s not right though…

    News hardly gets any funding by anyone wothout a goal of people telling others how to think.

    The only reason this guy would think the news was ever good is because he used to not know any better.

    • swim
      10•4 months ago

      I think it’s actually you who are misinformed, to an extent, as you’re painting with a brush so broad as to disregard the value and integrity of journalism entirely.

      The news having changed is certainly true. For instance, the abolishment of the Fairness Doctrine in the US in 1987. It “required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest, and to air contrasting views regarding those matters.”

      Furthermore, as “the fourth estate,” at it’s best journalism serves as a check on the power of the state and power - especially corporations. The muckrakers of the early 20th century, like Upton Sinclair, raised public awareness of corporate monopolies and unsafe worker conditions. Journalism was instrumental in fostering the knowledge and will necessary to claw workplace rights and protections from the rising capitalist class.

      • @[email protected]
        2•4 months ago

        Very good points.

        I will maintain the the big broadcasters and newspapers have always been slanted, but you are right…

        Many, if not most journalists themselves have integrity and should be honored and funded.

        Many publications do too.