"We used to worry about media consolidation because it reduced competition. But now we have to worry about it because it's being used to create unified propaganda infrastructure. Absolutely. And that's what's happening with media. That's what's happening in the AI space…."

~ Parker Molloy

#Trump #EconomicElites #broligarchy #TechBros #media #fascism #authoritarianism #AI
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thelefthook.substack.com/p/cor…

Corporate Media Is Now an Active and Complicit Partner of Fascism

Journalist Parker Molloy joins The Left Hook to discuss the corporate takeover of American media by billionaires who are willing to trade democracy for profit, control, and kissing up to fascists.

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

"Young adults follow the news less closely than any other age group. Overall attention to news has declined since 2016, and the youngest age group has remained consistently at the bottom.

At the same time, there is one place where young adults are more likely to get news than any other age group: social media."

~ Pew Research Center

#Trump #EconomicElites #broligarchy #TechBros #media #fascism #authoritarianism #AI #GenZ
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pewresearch.org/journalism/202…

Young Adults and the Future of News

U.S. adults under 30 follow news less closely than any other age group. And they’re more likely to get (and trust) news from social media.

^{jcoleman (Pew Research Center)}

"Under Trump II, the broligarch campaign to take down independent media has gone into overdrive. ... What they are after is buying favor with Donald Trump and, more broadly, advancing their own authoritarian agenda."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #EconomicElites #broligarchy #TechBros #media #fascism #authoritarianism #AI
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paulkrugman.substack.com/p/mag…

MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media

This isn’t just about business; it’s about democracy

^{Paul Krugman}

"[We live in] an era in which the rest of us appear to live more or less at the sufferance of a few handfuls of centi-billionaires who have graduated beyond the obstacles of consequences or law."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #EconomicElites #broligarchy #TechBros #media #fascism #authoritarianism #AI
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talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t…

Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators

I got a fascinating array of responses to my Tuesday post about the 21st century nabobs, striding over politics and society with their unheard of wealth and…

^{Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

"Three prominent academics released a study last week whose findings are both shocking and unsurprising.

Their article, published in Foreign Affairs, is titled 'The Price of American Authoritarianism.'

The takeaway is that in less than a year — this very year — the United States has moved swiftly from democracy to a form of authoritarianism."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#Trump #EconomicElites #broligarchy #TechBros #media #fascism #authoritarianism #AI
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margaretsullivan.substack.com/…

America has tragically changed, but journalism is still stuck in old ways

The swift slide into authoritarianism should have been a five-alarm fire for the media

^{Margaret Sullivan (American Crisis)}

"Amid America’s fall, the news media has largely failed to meet the moment.

Journalists (with a few exceptions) are mostly documenting what’s happening and applying the same old journalistic techniques and traditions to the vastly different situation. There are minor adjustments but very little sense of the five-alarm fire."

#Trump #EconomicElites #broligarchy #TechBros #media #fascism #authoritarianism #AI
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"The legacy media’s refusal to recognize Trump’s mental and emotional unraveling cannot conceal a stark reality: Trump has lost it. That might spell misfortune for MAGA Republicans, but it also poses new dangers to our democracy and security."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #health #MentalDecline #EconomicElites #broligarchy #TechBros #media #fascism #authoritarianism
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contrarian.substack.com/p/trum…

Trump is Losing it

A wounded, humiliated Trump may be the most dangerous of all

^{Jennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)}

"It’s not often you can see the effects of enshittification instantly, but CBS News after the Paramount/Skydance merger is a very clear one. We’ve gone from Walter Cronkite reporting the shooting and death of JFK to new CBS News Editor-In-Chief Bari Weiss’s bizarre interview with Erika Kirk (which dominated their Twitter feed like it was run by Russian bots)."

~ Michael Mora

#media #BariWeiss #ErikaKirk #enshittification #Trump #MaGA #CBS
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wonkette.com/p/republicans-sti…

Republicans Still Figuring Out Bare Minimum Of Healthcare To Give Tiny Tim On Sunday Shows

We watch so you never have to!

^{Michael Mora (Wonkette)}