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   AJ Sadauskas (ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 02:05:16 JST AJ Sadauskas

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   @DaRC_Fantom @Remittancegirl @Tattooed_Mummy It's not just authoritarian states that have spent decades honing their propaganda skills.

   News Corp was founded in 1918. Australia's most powerful industrialist of the time, William Lawrence Baillieu, became concerned about the influence of a union-owned newspaper among the workers of a mine he owned in Broken Hill.

   (The name Baillieu will be familiar to anyone reading this in Melbourne. Ted Baillieu, a recent stare premier of Victoria, is a descendant of the Myer–Baillieu family.)

   It was designed to spread pro-corporate propaganda to break the union's influence. Laurence eventually put a journalist named Keith Murdoch in charge.
   https://theconversation.com/the-secret-history-of-news-corp-a-media-empire-built-on-spreading-propaganda-116992

   Keith's son, Rupert Murdoch, eventually took over the business, which is now run by his grandson, Lachlan.

   So Fox News, the Wall St Journal, the UK Sun, etc, is basically the product of 100 years of anti-union propaganda.

   On top of that, you have the entire public relations industry, which is basically corporate propaganda.

   It's the PR industry that made Elon look like an environmentalist visionary instead of the spoilt son of a wealthy Apartheid-era businessman.

   It also spread doubts about whether toxic fossil fuels are cooking the planet.

   When it comes to propaganda, there's no place like home...