Corporate interests have not changed in the last 20 years.
While Public interest & public sentiments learn from past experiences, corporate interest remains unchanged, it supports whatever benefits their bottomline.
The networks don't care about the public interest, only their corporate interest.
If you live long enough you get to see a few of these 20 year cycles where everybody forgets every goddam thing and does the same fucked up shit all over again as if all the paths of idiocy they're trotting down haven't been traveled before, again and again and again etc. We learn nothing at all.
IIRC at the time we were all like, "Really? The fortunate sons are really going to convince the Vietnam vets to head right back into the same adventurism but in Iraq?" And apparently, yeah, we just do this.
I mean, my political consciousness was formed during Reagan/Bush I, and I was screaming a lot through the W years that we were just doing it in reruns. It's more reruns and it keeps getting shittier!
The amount of "Wait, you were all here too before, right?! Like, you were literally in Congress when Bush made torture legal and now you're, like, not responding to this shit?" in my life over the last few months is...well, it's significant!
I feel like the MSM is the Arrested development meme:
"Reporting them uncritically was bad for everyone in 2001."
"True."
"But maybe this time, it will work for us"
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While Public interest & public sentiments learn from past experiences, corporate interest remains unchanged, it supports whatever benefits their bottomline.
The networks don't care about the public interest, only their corporate interest.
https://bsky.app/profile/breadnrosie.bsky.social/post/3lrtz3kfiak2j
That is literally the alpha and omega of the thinking here
Fitzmas is never coming 🫠
"Reporting them uncritically was bad for everyone in 2001."
"True."
"But maybe this time, it will work for us"
also weird watching his arch-nemesis tucker carlson advocate against a war like this