PG: Free Press got bought by them to control US media, not for revenue growth

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46 points·donsupreme··7 comments

If you learn anything from the last 30 years, it's this - propaganda works. If you own the media and you're coordinated enough, you effectively can't lose; you completely own the framing of every debate.

If you extend that to 40 years you have the collapse of the Soviet Union in spite of the propaganda.

A year or 3 ago, it was a conspiracy theory to acknowledge this.

Thankfully I think the attitude is changing quite a bit and people are coming to realise that it's not good if all of our communications are controlled by a group of people with the same beliefs

Larry Ellison getting TikTok from the govt at just $14B is the biggest steal. His control of Paramount and CBS makes him the biggest owner of American attention, and he’ll have Bari Weiss steering it.

On the plus side, the total media control means yes there are really encouraging signs for other people to be doing media as well. Since the big media empires are all now under control of the 0.01%.

On the down side, unclear how much money is really to be made.

PG getting it though. Pretty loud and clear signal, a new stage of the world: the Powell Memorandum has come to fruition, this long plot to usurp control and the courts, and yank/buy-out story-telling/media away from democracy & the people.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496092

Paul Graham spinning conspiracy theories on Twitter, meanwhile on planet Earth David Ellison figures he just bought himself more credibility with the Trump administration as he eyes Warner Discovery, and Bari Weiss thumbs her nose at the NY Times building on her way to the bank.

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