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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 12 points 1 hour ago

The worst is when rich people interview other rich people about their rich person thing (e.g. Ivanka Trump purchasing an island), so that poor people can watch it on television. That level of narcissism and arrogance is just fucking astonishing to me. You can be rich and also just shut the absolute fuck up about it.

[–] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 2 points 41 minutes ago

A lot of the people doing it aren’t even rich anymore. It’s a Ponzi scheme of influencers vying for social capital that can’t actually be cashed in for anything

[–] dropdrip@lemmy.ml 2 points 54 minutes ago

Sports coverage is not news; there's always a sports segment in every 'news' program. Entertainment masquerading as news. Kill Rupert Murdoch and his progeny.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

My eyes were practically bleeding while watching some local news coverage at a bar, fairly recently.

It was literally two geriatric fascists in cowboy hats yelling at each other over the image of a young black man with facial tattoos in an orange prison jumpsuit. The debate was whether the local PD had gone woke and become complicit in street crime or just needed another zillion dollars of additional funding to fight the urban menace.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

Thanks Frieren!

[–] BigMike@lemmy.world -2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Ah yes, me a famously rich person.

[–] BigMike@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Cmon, we both know I didn't refer to that

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

What are you referring to?

[–] BigMike@lemmy.world 0 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

The socialist who posts a lot of news posts this. It's not really that hard of a joke to get

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 28 minutes ago (1 children)

Yogthos isn't telling poor people to blame each other, but that the working classes need to collectively fight the bourgeoisie.

[–] BigMike@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago (2 children)

But he is spreading the message of the rich [news].

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting that learning about current events is only something the rich should do?

[–] BigMike@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 13 minutes ago) (1 children)

I'm just saying that the news is rich people paying rich people to tell poor people to blame eachother

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 minutes ago

The news is generally rich people paying workers to frame current events in bourgeois friendly manners. It's up to us to read through the lines.

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

"news" could be any new information over any medium and is as old as language and gossip and culture itself

The News™ is a manufactured product designed to control the masses

Are you suggesting we should just never post or discuss either?