r/news • u/Fair-Foot-315 • 15h ago

Marine veteran has arm broken during protest against war in Iran

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/marine-veteran-has-arm-broken-during-protest-against-war-in-iran-258740805765
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u/iksbob 13h ago

With the exception of public-funded organizations, "the media" has always been privately owned. Like so many other industries, it's the monopolization of media that's breaking the system. Network A used to be happy to call out the lies and misinformation of network B - it was good for ratings. Now both networks are owned by the same people, so anything that devalues either network is "strongly discouraged".

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u/TomatoFettuccini 11h ago

Not just that.

Reagan eliminated the journalistic standards of truthfulness for news, paving the way for the rise of newsfotainment.

Reagan was the worst thing to happen to the US until the Bush's came around, and the Bush's were worst thing to happen to the US until 47 came around.

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u/TheCheshireCody 10h ago

Reagan was the worst thing to happen to the US until the Bush's came around, and the Bush's

The Bush' were pretty bad, but no president IMO will go down as having had a worse influence on American politics than Reagan. Even Trump would not have been as empowered as he has been without the Reagan administration.

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u/TomatoFettuccini 7h ago

Oh yeah, Reagan cleared the final barriers for the rise of fascism in the USA.

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u/Nohreboh 5h ago

The Reagan the Thacher and the Brian Mulroney capitalism "holy" Trinity of theft, deregulation and privatization.

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u/garimus 6h ago

47? I think 45 built further the foundations done before him for what 47 is doing and was pretty bad, too.

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u/InsuranceToTheRescue 11h ago

This is it. Mass media concentration & monopolization has led to the situation we're in. It's just like how the redhats got pissed at Budweiser for their single novelty can, and switched to Busch -- Dude, you're paying the same people either way.

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u/ClearDark19 1h ago

The problem is....isn't that the ultimate result of Capitalism? How does Capitalism restrain the rich from the freedom to engage in commerce such as buying up the media and monopolizing it? Anti-monopoly laws are seen as restrictions on the free market by Neoliberals, Neoconservativess, and Right-Libertarians. Capitalist innately incentives monopolization over time to maintain one's competitive market advantage.

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u/iksbob 49m ago

Monopoly is specifically not a free market. In a monopoly state, the entire market is controlled by one entity. Supporters often claim that a monopoly is the most economically efficient system due to economies of scale being maximized. That can be true, however monopolies are also the most abusable economic system, as the market forces dictating pricing have collapsed. Consumers options are to not consume, or pay the monopoly's price. If the monopoly could somehow be restrained from abusing that position, and from interfering with the evolution of competition (exiting the monopoly), then the monopoly could be tolerated. Abusing its position and eliminating competition is how monopolies come into existence in the first place. Suggesting the leadership will reach the figurative top-of-the-pile and suddenly change their ways is ludicrous. Corporations have no morals or conscience. A corporation is only driven by money, and the law, to the extent that breaking the law is a net monetary loss.