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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 23:53:38 JST Charlie Stross

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   • Madeleine Morris

   @spacehobo @Remittancegirl US news media today are for entertainment, not information. The anchors are there to provide the audience with a canned laugh track, telegraphing the correct emotional response to the bite-sized propaganda pieces.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 00:16:00 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Madeleine Morris

     @Remittancegirl @spacehobo I think they were more subtle about it pre-2000?

     And this goes for the UK too. I used to read the Daily Telegraph in the 1980s. Stodgy and conservative but the news coverage was balanced and didn't editorialize, and the editorials were Burkean in tone rather than frothing-at-the-mouth xenophobia. (The 1980s Telegraph was about where The Guardian is today on most issues. Exception: homophobia, which was everywhere back then.)

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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 00:16:01 JST Madeleine Morris

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     @cstross @spacehobo

     Not just today. It's been that way for a long while now. But am I hallucinating or did they used to be slightly more subtle about it?