Amazon creates a story for the news, multiple news outlets run the story without editorial.
Amazon Controls The News
Diji1 on 28/05/2020 - 12:37
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Mirrored my own reaction.
I see nothing wrong with this?
Private company (Amazon) is paying private companies (News) to advertise for them.
Capitalism at work.The problem is they run it like news.
It's advertorials dressed up as news information…
Hell, If I was the richest man in the world, I would be (fropanity) about with news media as well…
Free press dead. Free market dead. Most people don't care or wouldn't know the difference. Embrace idiocracy, fighting it is too hard.
Amazon Controls The NewsNews outlets publish press releases as newsFixed that for you.
Amazon are not doing anything that any number of other companies do; the problem is with the mainstream press sheep.
Lol at the title of this post and the video.
What's worse is when news outlets use statements and press releases to conduct war mongering. Look at mass media covered Iraq's WMDs, Libya's Gaddafi, Syria's chemical attacks, Iran's army classified as a terrorist organisation, Venezuela's dictatorship, anything China does, anything Russia does, or basically anything that threatens US hegemony. Read Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent for detailed information on mass media's collusion with war profiteers and Amy Goodman's Static for how US media has been shaped by government and corporate elites. We are being played for suckers.
Edit: to add more info to the Amazon story, this PR stunt is in response to the firing of Christian Smalls and the Tim Bray resignation. It is part of Amazon's strategy to protect their image, which also included plans to smear Smalls, calling him "not smart or articulate".
Bloody hell, looks like we have to stop voting Laberal, then Diji and you can relax….. and we can do the worrying instead.
We refuse to relax! :-) Those with power seek to consolidate their wealth and power - it's pretty much a perpetual state of affairs. It doesn't just happen once every election cycle. We must be vigilant, comrade!
this is Amaz-ing