Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "‘Extraordinary’: Joy Reid under fire for ‘unhinged’ Thanksgiving rant" video.
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Forget about how much they've dropped in one week. Focus instead on how miniscule their audiences were at their pre-election peak! "Down to 632,000" means they were only bringing in 1.2 million views at their peak. There are podcasters bringing in more views!
They were already dying before the election. The manufacture of consent by government/corporate oligopoly is failing. They had their way when mass media was first invented and for decades thereafter.
What our establishment learned from Hitler and Stalin wasn't that state-run (or state-manipulated) media was a bad thing. They learned how to obtain the same results by running their censorship and manipulation secretly, behind closed doors, and then bragging about our "free press," which was so much better. In a way, it WAS better, because in the USSR, China, or any other openly totalitarian state, everybody KNOWS what they see in print or on tv is 100% government propaganda.
By contrast, in the USA, I remember bragging about our free press compared to the obvious lies of TASS or PRAVDA back in the mid-70s (teen years). It wasn't until decades later that a little bit of research showed me how many lies and distortions I accepted at face value because I didn't realize that it was all establishment propaganda.
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