Because corporate media (which to some extent includes social media) has enormous power. It’s why the companies sell for many billions of dollars. It has always been the case.
So what? Well, since the 70’s there have been attempts to regulate that power (i.e. limiting advertising to children) and almost all of them were defeated or gutted by republicans and corporatists who almost always say that media has no effect on people (usually qualified as “intelligent people”, “thinking people”, or most often “me”).
It has always been bullshit. It’s 50 years late to understand media corporations have to be tightly regulated. Not doing so thus far has given us homegrown fascism and climate destruction.
Stories like this prove it. And it’s been proven over, and over, and over again. Teach media literacy, regulate corporate media. It is an existential threat to continue not doing it.
Because corporate media (which to some extent includes social media) has enormous power. It’s why the companies sell for many billions of dollars. It has always been the case.
So what? Well, since the 70’s there have been attempts to regulate that power (i.e. limiting advertising to children) and almost all of them were defeated or gutted by republicans and corporatists who almost always say that media has no effect on people (usually qualified as “intelligent people”, “thinking people”, or most often “me”).
It has always been bullshit. It’s 50 years late to understand media corporations have to be tightly regulated. Not doing so thus far has given us homegrown fascism and climate destruction.
Stories like this prove it. And it’s been proven over, and over, and over again. Teach media literacy, regulate corporate media. It is an existential threat to continue not doing it.