Shame on Stanford for being weak in the face of opposition
Because corporate media (which to some extent includes social media) has enormous power. It’s why the companies sell for many billions of dollars. It has always been the case.
So what? Well, since the 70’s there have been attempts to regulate that power (i.e. limiting advertising to children) and almost all of them were defeated or gutted by republicans and corporatists who almost always say that media has no effect on people (usually qualified as “intelligent people”, “thinking people”, or most often “me”).
It has always been bullshit. It’s 50 years late to understand media corporations have to be tightly regulated. Not doing so thus far has given us homegrown fascism and climate destruction.
Stories like this prove it. And it’s been proven over, and over, and over again. Teach media literacy, regulate corporate media. It is an existential threat to continue not doing it.
Another private university exchanges spine for money.
House Republicans seem to be attacking anything that disrupts their propaganda:
House Republicans launch investigation into news rating group NewsGuard
They are and have become the living embodiment of the Skinner “No they must be wrong “ meme
They are the living embodiment of fascism.
NEW fascism. Identical to the old fascism!
NEW fascism Now in orange flavor!
That these institutions, especially Columbia who is renowned for their journalism program, caved to pressure is as sad as it is pathetic.
Shame on Stanford for being weak in the face of opposition
Because corporate media (which to some extent includes social media) has enormous power. It’s why the companies sell for many billions of dollars. It has always been the case.
So what? Well, since the 70’s there have been attempts to regulate that power (i.e. limiting advertising to children) and almost all of them were defeated or gutted by republicans and corporatists who almost always say that media has no effect on people (usually qualified as “intelligent people”, “thinking people”, or most often “me”).
It has always been bullshit. It’s 50 years late to understand media corporations have to be tightly regulated. Not doing so thus far has given us homegrown fascism and climate destruction.
Stories like this prove it. And it’s been proven over, and over, and over again. Teach media literacy, regulate corporate media. It is an existential threat to continue not doing it.
Another private university exchanges spine for money.
Probably because they want to prevent this.