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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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  • [–] 142 points 1 year ago

    No, it wasn't careless, they take a lot of care in spreading misinformation

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    MSNBC fired a reporter for calling Charlie Kirk divisive. I doubt the reporter who did this got so much as a slap on the wrist.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Don't wait until the very last two paragraphs of the article to say why it was wrong, or your conclusion about it. Put that shit up top The Verge:

    As we know now, the bullets actually did have messages on them. They included a furry meme (“Notices bulges OWO what’s this?”), the phrase “If you read this, you are gay lmao,” and a reference to the video game Helldivers 2. This seems more indicative of internet brain rot than any specific ideology. It’s confusing enough that at least some of the groypers (and also, apparently, Musk’s chatbot Grok) seem to think the shooter was a groyper, so make of that what you will. The Journal has pivoted into suggesting the alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, was simply a troubled young man, despite other remarks from Cox. Cox said that one of Robinson’s relatives informed investigators that Robinson “had become more political in recent years.”

    The Wall Street Journal has not retracted its report about the trans community, nor has it apologized. I guess it really is a Rupert Murdoch paper after all.

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

    The fact that people keep reporting on what Grok "thinks" is really disturbing to me. Mind you, this is also the program that declared itself mecha-hitler, and as recently as a few days ago was confidently reporting that the video of Kirk getting shot was fake.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Whaaaaat, You aren't happy to witness dead internet theory become more real before your eyes. So surprising.

    I for one will take my AI Slop and I will treat it as if it is a human like a good consumer. /s

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    *Propaganda. They willingly and knowingly spread propaganda - and they have the journalistic integrity of the comix page. Billionaire bought and paid for. Completely worthless.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The conservatives keep writing "antifascist ideology" as if we didn't fight against the Nazis in WWII

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

    Yeah, this. I've read that a few times already and every time I'm like "yeah, isnt that a GOOD thing?"

    I guess that is something that sort of creeps me out, how casually they've switched to a narrative where fascists are the good guys

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Carelessly?

    Maliciously.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago
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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    I mean, it's WSJ. They aren't exactly a monument to through journalism. I'm glad that some people that didn't realize that previously are noticing, though. Do NYT next.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The New York Times and Louder with Crowder published the same thing.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    We know they are lying.

    They know that they are lying.

    They even know that we know they are lying.

    We also know that they know we know they are lying.

    They, of course, know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying.

    Yet they still lie.

    In Russia, the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

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    In the U.S. the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country. shrugs Must be all that money.

    SeeMarkFly (2025)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    WSJ has long even before this abandoned even a mild claim to be called anything but a "propaganda rag".

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I put the wall street journal on the same level as breitbart and newsmax these days. Rupert Murdoch has weaponized it against the left the same way he weaponized fox news.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Preparing their rebranding to White Supremacy Journal.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I called that the killer was a Groyper. I just knew it in my bones. I wouldn't expect this to be their last hit either. Right-wing infighting is pretty fun to watch.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Always has.

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  • carekessly isn't that a murdoch rag

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Fuck the WSJ (in my opinion)

    Garbage media outlet only grifting for more money (imho)

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No shit. The Wall Street Journal is published by Dow Jones & Company - a division of News Corp, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.

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

    The center-left is abandoning trans people, under the belief that it will inoculate them against right wing attacks. It began with commentators doing the "well I'm pro trans but..." line-toeing, and now it's progressed to full blown transphobic fear mongering.

    Calling the uncritical repeating of an unofficial claim made by the very people perpetuating a negative stereotype "careless" or even "negligent" is massively underselling what happened here. WSJ heard a rumor, saw money signs because they know conservatives are looking to scapegoat trans people, and fired it off. This wasn't carelessness, it was opportunistic fear mongering for clicks.

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