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rainworld on Dec 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)

>uses his media empire to convince people to go against their own interests

Well, yes, that’s his job. Do you think that news media exists to inform you?

dijit on Dec 17, 2023 [–]

The fact that you would even make this joke shows how absurdly far we have fallen.

Obviously they exist for that purpose, studying the foundations of news media and journalism... for even a day... shows concisely that it was painfully created for this reason.

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