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RantoniFantoni t1_j1ak3yu wrote

Reply to comment by NickDanger3di in TikTok confirms employees improperly accessed journalists' user data in hunt for leaks by j1ggy

The media is generally pretty brain dead and only working for their paycheck.

See US media not caring that US Gov just convicted a Twitter employee for being a spy for Saudi Arabia, meanwhile Saudi government is now one of the major owners of Twitter. Says everything you need to know about us. The people that helped to make 9/11 possible only has to spend enough money lobbying and buying PR and both the US gov and media will not care what you do.

The US gov literally accused the Saudi spy of doxing Saudi dissidents whom were promptly chopped up and then let Elon with MBS buy Twitter while freaking out about Tik Tok. We're the same country that classified portions of the 9/11 Commission's Report that detailed a Saudi intelligence operative helping Al Qaeda in San Diego. Al Qaeda even filmed them hanging out with him, which was uncovered when they raided the Hamburg cell, you can see parts of that video on Youtube.

EDIT: I like the Saudi downvotes.

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fzvw t1_j1amw3z wrote

The media did cover it though. If you look up the story there are articles from all the major news outlets.

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RantoniFantoni t1_j1aoatk wrote

It wasn't covered as the top news item and instead was buried under other news due to Saudi PR spending. Many US entities are cautious about writing about Gulf States because through a myriad of companies, they own a lot of US assets. Like hardly anyone knows the Miramax is owned by a Gulf State.

And the media didn't see the hypocrisy between US government prosecuting a Saudi spy and then weeks later let the Saudi's help Elon buy Twitter.

EDIT: Saudi shills are downvoting hard.

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Think_Current101 t1_j1aqixb wrote

Not sure this is so much brain dead as... billionaires own all of our major media corporations and they're pretty keen to support foreign investments in the gulf states and, until very recently, Russia.

Blaming this on journalist incompetence and not ownership literally defunding newsrooms and having complete editorial control is a bit off the mark.

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RantoniFantoni t1_j1aqypp wrote

I dunno, no journalist bothered to check with Stanford whether Elon actually went there and nobody bothered to look up unsealed court documents from a lawsuit in 2007 in Marin county court where Elon admitted to lying about his credentials.

Until recently, 99% of media coverage of Elon for the last several decades has been glowing. Even though all it took was one person to contact Stanford to verify Elon's attendance and the fake narrative comes crashing down.

EDIT: Thanks Elon stans.

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mcs_987654321 t1_j1b6t4f wrote

On what analysis are you basing that 95% figure? Does it include print and tv? US markets only or other set of markets?

Because my personal impression - based on print only (mainly weeklies), US FRA and CA sources - was a solid mix of positive, neutral/bemused, and negative.

The US media environment is still a clusterfuck in the aggregate, but making random declarations like “didn’t cover X” or “only said Y” is no better than the garbage, fact free op eds pushed out in the daily papers.

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RantoniFantoni t1_j1bs72h wrote

There no analysis and you cant define what is media and what isn't, or who's a journalist and no isn't. Everything is subjective.

Which is why they make a TV show Succession about the Australian white nationalist that runs the media in Australia, US, and the UK.

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