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[–] 101 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The sooner everyone else realizes the WSJ is basically FOX NEWS with a monocle, the better off the whole country will be.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Owned by the same company. Why would they have a different agenda?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    To play Devil's advocate, that isn't a great argument in the system of capitalism. Two companies owned by the same patent corp can easily be imagined to cater to different audiences so to maximize profits of the parent corp by reaching more overall people.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Fair point. But I think the key is that newscorp is as much an ideological project as it is a business, so in this case it is true. While they’re designed to appeal to different audiences, they have the same agenda.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Related tangentially, but I was sad to see the older conservative kid won the fight (via settlement after losing in court) to control newscorp. I hope the other 3 kids who each got more than a billion for giving up their stake in the propaganda factory actually do something to help society. They won't but I hope they do.

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