helvede.net is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Velkommen til Helvede, fediversets hotteste instance! Vi er en queerfeministisk server, der shitposter i den 9. cirkel. Welcome to Hell, We’re a DK-based queerfeminist server. Read our server rules!

Server stats:

159
active users

#legacymedia

1 post1 participant0 posts today
Continued thread

“Is legacy media dead?” asks @parkermolloy for @damemagazine. She looks at how, with newspaper owners interfering in the work of their reporters, independent media sources are the ones holding power to account. “What independent journalism offers that legacy media increasingly doesn’t is transparency about where it’s coming from. There’s no pretense of objectivity that masks institutional biases and billionaire influence,” she writes. “Readers know what they’re getting, which paradoxically can build more trust than false neutrality.”

damemagazine.com/2025/03/19/is

Dame Magazine - · Is Legacy Media Dead? - Dame MagazineThere was a time when people collectively agreed on what constituted "the news." Walter Cronkite would sign off with "And that's the way it is," and most Americans nodded along. The New York Times was the "paper of record," and if something appeared in its pages, it existed as fact in our shared reality. That
#LegacyMedia outlets are increasingly unable to shove the social media reaction to the UnitedHealthcare assassination under the rug, so now they are printing articles where "experts" "explain" the reaction, while mentioning nothing about Brian Thompson's compensation package, nor his history of insider trading, nor UnitedHealthcare's history of defrauding the federal government and denying critical care to sick patients.

these consent-manufacturing "journalists" and media outlets can get fucked.

The final nail in the coffin of legacy media - Washington Post and LA Times simper to Trump on behalf of their billionaire owners - refuse to run endorsements of Harris even though Trump has spoken publically for arresting journalists and ending democracy.

Democracy dies in the dark, but you know, we really want those tax cuts for the rich.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

"The truth is that when Republicans win, the mainstream press feels the need to move to the right because they’re out of touch, and when Democrats win, the mainstream press feels the need to move to the right because it’s only a matter of time before Republicans win again. The answer to the millionaires and billionaires making these decisions is always to find an excuse to shift to the right." --Parker Malloy
damemagazine.com/2022/07/11/ma
#Press, #LegacyMedia, #NBC, #CableNews, #RonnaMcDaniel

Dame Magazine - · Mainstream Media’s Rightward Lurch - Dame MagazineI’ve seen a number of stories in recent weeks about CNN’s supposed shift to a “less partisan” strategy under new CEO Chris Licht. “CNN to dull its liberal edge,” reads a February 26 headline at Axios, and earlier this month, the New York Times reported that Licht “said he wanted to book more Republicans and

“It’s open season on #journalists,” this time in small town Alabama, where 69-year-old #reporter and 72-year-old #publisher are arrested, jailed. In other words, they’re being prosecuted by people they’ve known most of their adult lives. Small town officials feel emboldened by the financial troubles of #newspapers #legacymedia. #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech

washingtonpost.com/style/media

The Washington Post · In Alabama, another small-town paper hit in ‘open season’ on free pressBy Paul Farhi
Replied in thread

@strypey
Not all capitalists are #fascist, no. That is not what we said.

We will always repeat the definition of #fascism; when govt and big-business come together.

We argue that the way #BigTech and the #legacyMedia have aligned themselves with govt does make them uniquely fascist.

Even #DavidGraeber in his work, #BatshitConstruction, also identified how #BigConstruction and especially big #propertyDevelopers tend to be fascist based on their need for govt approval of large projects.

Replied in thread

@melissabeartrix
For many he made gardening fun. We remember a scandal several years ago but we put that in the #identityPolitics smear basket they do to anyone they don't like. Eg. Assange, K'Rudd, indymedia (fakebook labelled 800 #indymedia as #flatearthers to delete them), DickSmith other leaders, etc.

The #legacyMedia and sometimes even the "justice" system attack people, seemingly to show they can.

Maybe we're wrong on Don. What did he do?

@thegibson
Have you gotten to the part where they shadowban #antiwar activists (as far back as #Syria, 2015), JulianAssange supporters, freedomSoftware advocates, blocked news in #Australia when an attempt to tax them. To be fair the #LinkTax idea was dumb, but it was the speed at which govt yeilded that said it all.

Our #legacyMedia including #ourABC were #bribed in 2021 by #facebook, yet many in power are so #morallyBankrupt here, they didn't even care to protest.