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The news cycle is a distraction. My argument is all politics are local and that's where the GOP is eating the DNCs lunch. Fed judge appointments, groups like Moms for Liberty, local news channels parroting GOP talking points. National reporting is a distraction as all the papers are owned by billionaires. They'll report on whatever new shiny that passes by. Apparently it's working well because you're proposing to feed directly into it and give them more power.
https://apnews.com/article/moms-for-liberty-donors-revenue-gop-schools-70d733e024d81f7ad054b0f321e67647
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump
https://www.investopedia.com/billionaires-who-bought-publishers-5270187
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wing-propaganda-infiltrates-local-news-220756559.html
https://chomsky.info/consent01/
Dude the time to give a shit about media consolidation was 40 fucking years ago, when Manufacturing Consent was god damned published. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is calling and wants to remind you that media consolidation was kickstarted under Bill Clinton. Oh yeah he signed off on the Copyright Term Extension Act to give Disney a break, too. The Clinton's literally pioneered the act of shooing protestors out of the picture frame so everything looked better on TV. The 1995 film Spin covers it in great detail.
That window of opportunity has long past, and the Democrats embraced media consolidation 30 years ago, get over it. We play by the rules of the system we live in, not by the rules we wish them to be. The rules of this ecosystem demand angry, bombastic, over-the-top to catch clicks.
Further, we are literally on a site no one will go to because it's too janky because it's all open source and volunteer, but the corporate funded Bluesky is massively popular, despite owing tons of money to Blockchain Capital. People talk big but are generally too pussy to go with anti-corporate options.
Electoral reality doesn't align with your loud shouting unfortunately
“So voters in some places are making real distinctions to say this is not somebody who is aligned with Trump or represents him in the same way, or this is someone who has the state’s interest in mind in a way that other candidates don’t,” he said. “And that really is a different story from one state to the next.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/09/ticket-splitting-2024-election/76098631007/