Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
I can’t believe how close he was to winning when his platform was “let’s sell our media outlets to a country that’s becoming increasingly hostile towards us.”
You mean anglo western. A tiny portion of world. Nonwestern are doing great and don’t want your right wing facism www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/w...
China and India are governed by tyrants right now.
Definitely. This "defund the CBC" nonsense is a HUGE red flag. PP's approach: complain that the CBC are biased (against him, of course, even if it's factually wrong). Then use that ground to rage-farm and argue for de-funding "in the public interest". Meanwhile the Toronto Sun is just peachy.
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Exactly people keep saying ,"Democrats should do this or that" I live in rural Trumplandia. It's not just the crazies. The farmer, local merchant, the coach, they only watch Fox. So they have a false narrative of what's going on that neutralizes/skews their basic character of morality & patriotism.
Are you saying they are a lost cause. Do you not believe they will accept a different source of information with any optimism? It sounds like you think they have been brainwashed.
They are not accepting or looking for new sources of info at this time other than Fox. Many conversations where I present simple easily proven undisputable facts, they shake their heads & tell me they don't believe me. Mostly they have not been affected enough to force them outside their Fox bubble.
Thanks for sharing the view from inside your community. Unfortunately, there may not be a big enough shock to force people outside their bubble. Elsewhere / at other times, people under stress either double down or give up on mass media and return to the old world of rumour and superstition.
Fox "news" needs to go, it is part of my news package and cannot get rid of it without costing more money. The big telecommunication companies pay them with my money.
Protect Canada from Poilievre, period
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and protecting Canada from peepee. It's a fact, now the people need to realize they may need to protect themselves from their gov't, depending on who they 'choose' to listen to. Ala-berta is a great example. A rage and hate farmer has her following and peepee is trying to follow suit.
More than that. We need to take action to undo that capture and prevent it from extending into LLM's. That oligarch Musk is obviously trying to configure Grok to embrace his hard right ideology should be a wake up call.
That and it’s a big part of lying in official statements and press releases and frivolous claims in litigation and the like are really about too.
And Rumble is no small part of it.
@mark-carney.bsky.social Please pay attention to this issue.
And 86ing the Republican Hedge Fund owned propaganda sheets posing as newspapers. All Post and all Sun rags are owned by the same American scumbags.
And intimately related and intertwined with matters of climate and planetary ecological collapse.
This. 100% and totally.
We're seeing the same playbook applied in France, most notably with Bolloré buying up TV stations, newspapers and publishing houses left and right.
UK, same. We are in thrall (even broadcast media) to a slavering right wing press pack whose coverage implies that the deleterious effects of all the failed and failing government policies of the past 40 years are in fact all caused by recent flows miserable, destitute brown people in dinghies.
And from Carney, right?
It's a problem in the UK.
Thinking it won’t happen there assures it will happen there too.
Same things happening in the UK..it's frightening and frustrating. We even have our own wannabe Trump in Nigel Farage, who is given so much coverage and airtime by media,and allowed to spout his dangerous racist lies virtually unchallenged.
This is a fact! Erosion of media regulations in the US, starting with Reagan, opened the door to fascism here.
The Fairness Doctrine would change nothing about this.
You are confused.
Yes, often, but what does that have to do with my post?
Because you are confused about the regulations.
Well, that's not helpful. Care to elaborate?
I’m not your library. Maybe just google the First Amendment 🤷🏻♀️
LoL, way to concede your point 😂
I just love how they never give an answer or it's Google it. Must be too ignorant to know about the Fairness Doctrine. Of course I knew a moron the other day who said my info about an ITIN number wasn't real and just msn propaganda 🙄
I didn’t concede anything. You are under some weird impression Reagan deregulated something that is relevant here. You are wrong.
Yeah, sure. Have a nice day.
Sorry you are not as educated as you thought you were.
There are enough people with money on the left that they could have set up media platforms long ago or now. Yet they don't.
Don't forget the supreme courts of the countries. www.dw.com/en/germany-m...
A frightening number of people are oblivious to what is happening here. They have control of the media and have prevented the spread of movement messaging on social media.
Precisely. If you think you have enough money to feel protected … you won’t. Absolute power, corrupts absolutely.
It was hilarious here because in the elections Pollievre was in the lead - until Trump became elected in the US and everyone drew parallels between the two. Suddenly he tanked hard and lost. This is the one thing I will forever be thankful to Trump for. Neither of them belong in politics.
Make a law that no one can own more than 10% of media outlets in any form.
Best to do the opposite of what a conservative tells you to do.
Manufacturing Consent youtu.be/BQXsPU25B60?...
Freedom of the press is for those that own one
@brenttoderian.bsky.social Have you read Autocracy Inc by Anne Applebaum? She has a lot to say about foreign media interference. It's a good book. #AutocracyInc
Thanks ! I'll have a look. It's a goal of mine to try and diminish the influence of the rigth here in Québec.
Also CTV and Global. All the newspapers. The Government of Canada should legislate the sale of compromised media outlets back into Canadian hands, at fair market value. That means breaking up huge mega corps so smaller Canadian orgs can purchase them.
Canada needs to get covert US and right-wing influence out of Canadian media.
Start with CTV, very pro trump in their reporting. IMO
Don't forget RADIO - like the RAWLCO cabal in SK mainlining right-wing trash for decades
Support independent media. Watch it, like it, subscribe, and become a member if you can (paid). We will rebuild the free press. Plus, people are not buying the corporate emperor-has-no-clothes shtick they are trying to sell. Look at his poll numbers. Look at MAGA's poll numbers of him.
Not just protecting the CBC, but forcing foreign entities to divest themselves of Canadian media.
Too late in France, where billionaire Bolloré owns many medias, and he's in a crusade.
Hope one of the budget cuts PM MC makes is cutting big corporate media subsidies. Look at how independent media is replacing legacy media in the U.S. @meidastouch.com
I keep hoping that all those late night comedians pool their cash and start their own media company. I mean.... why not? Most of them are wealthy these days, and imagine if Colbert, Stewart, Oliver, Myers, Kimmel, Bee, Ruffin, Noah etc all banded together?
How awesome would that be? They could bring others in too, support new talent. Bring in Christopher Titus, Meidas touch, etc.
Like Harper before him, Poilievre hates the CBC. He is anti-Canada in so many ways.
They're coming for all of us. They want to control every corner of earth.
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Since the MSM clearly has no boundaries (as demonstrated by interviewing a 10yo who had just survived a mass shooting), reporters should ask Rudy questions about various important Trump issues and scandals while he is on serious painkillers (aka truth serum). We might as well learn some truth. FDT!
@cjad800.bsky.social is another Bell Media stooge for Poilievere and his followers…with loud angry voices like Meney and Malakos, followed by bitter Mulcair who hasn’t got over the NDP leadership loss to Singh. Montreal deserves better.
Yes. So true.
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Too late for the UK.
Got a cellphone? Then you have a camera. Go outside, boom; you're a journalist now. Get to work.
You are spot on. The MSM here is soooo complicit.
We need to bring back foreign owned media restrictions, and ones that are right now should receive zero funding, ever - something they previously got a ton from JT. And we need a truth in media law, like the US used to have.
hit the mark on that one, corporate media in the US queens of kowtow, "thank you Sir may I have another!"
Too late for the UK. For the US, as with most serious social problems, it's Ronald Reagan's fault.
Many people use social media more than traditional media channels. The same should apply to Elon Musk's X, Xi Jinping's TikTok, Zuckerberg's Meta, etc.. Their operations here in the EU should be spun off, and European-owned to safeguard European security. Canada, UK etc too.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: objective reality is worth defending. We use the power of the state to fight defamation and copyright infringements, we can do the same for disinfo.
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I think a better question at this point is to ask how many bits of media across the globe have already fallen to such, or are in various stages of doing so.
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It was so nice when we did not have to see or hear from polliviere for awhile. The man is so american. Hopefully conservatives will find someone more canadian and less hateful and works for the people and put this guy out of politics forever!
Yup, but if you try and get anything changed, they'll whinge about freedom of the press.
When CBS can be bullied into firing a critic, we know we're in a lot of trouble.
Most of our MSM is owned by US based corporations. Post media is for sure. They don't like CBC because of advertising. If we fully fund CBC they no longer have to have and please advertisers and can let the others fight over that.
This is how oligarchy happens.
Very true
Something something the mountain of media bsky.app/profile/matt...
Don't be stupid and do what we're doing.You need to get rid of him now before he becomes a trump in your country!
Main Stream Media are owned by billionaires who enjoy their massive tax cuts, while WE THE PEOPLE suffer they’re ordering their new super yachts, buying luxury properties around the globe, getting a bigger jet.
Foot Doctor Office area
Terian's are here. I saw their truck
CDC is CBC is CBS
USA is CaNaDa
Power -> corruption -> inequality -> social collapse -> revolution
Please learn from us…..and fast
Need to take away Post media subsidy, now.
One of the many reasons I pay my taxes with a smile here in Norway; having at least one state owned channel #nrk that gives us good quality and objective national and international news, educational tv lots of good entertainment.
Elbows up!!!
I never felt that I was that good of a parent, so when raising my kids, I always told them to use me as a bad example. I never thought my country would ever do the same thing on the world stage.
A polish friend said similar is happening there and it definitely happened in the UK
You’re going to have a hard time stopping the right wing if you don’t cut off the media complicity.
The most critical missing organs here in the US are the small papers that cover a million people or less. The ones that enabled near-term connection and local business advertisement. I know the True North has lots of remote and distributed communities. They need help keeping connected together.
We don't get to troops in the streets in DC without a quarter century of Fox and Sinclair hammering at the myth of urban crime from 6-9, Mon-Fri.
The Media Whores happily went along with all of this. None of them are captives one bit.
It is wild what our media chooses to show and normalize and Not show!! Like all our protest and veterans outraged and protesting
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You guys up there should be worried we aren’t in the coming few years planning to allow Russia build bases in Alaska. Vance and Thiel definitely are going to be making a move towards the tech dictatorship once Canks is dead.
I found it exceedingly sus that they held a “summit” on a military base and requested 400+ visas for Russian nationals Not sure Theil and Vance will submit to Russia - it’s going to be a shitshow of factionalism once Cankles is dead
That’s true, but it is the type of country they want us to be.
Canks 🤣
Yea, its too late for that 😂 this is a global thing that getting ready to happen?!?! It mught of started here but what he's doing is enabling other world leaders 🫤 just look at the U.K and other countries globally
It didn’t start in the US Americans need to brush up on their global awareness 😊 Hungary and the UK were some of the first I think Remember Cambridge Analytical? Started in 2010
Although it may have been started a while ago (which is cases like these It is the case) that's not what I was referring to, you would have to be obtuse to think the U.K wasn't just following behind the U.S 🙄
America first in all things hey? It’s that kind of arrogance that got us here. The UK doesn’t follow the US. The move toward Brexit was well underway in 2015. Tesla sales were tanking in Europe well b4 ppl started protesting in the states Really you ought to look up from your navel
No, I never stated america was first in all things just this istance we're referring to and let's be real I go off of things that happened based off past things and occurrences. Lets not forget that before this big fall america was a superpower in the world and being a superpower means influence
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The only thing we can do now is make a game plan of action to mitigate the damage that's about to be done worldwide 🤷🏽♂️
Absolutely.
News and social.
@npr.org and its pro-Trump reporting during election coverage by #RonElving was a disappointment
Too late for CBC. It is fairly obvious politically captured likely top down! Simply le as refusing to call PM Carney PM but dignifying PP with honorifics
It happened in the UK years ago, which is why we got Brexit
So true
Begin with the Murdoch family.
Yes!
Too late for UK whose oligarchic media is seeking to impose our own racist fascist party in govt.
Trust me you guys will be sorry if you sit back and allow this to fester on your government. Act with full force now.
Sorry about all of this. Infectious shit, this authoritarianism
Most US media has always been right-wing, so hardly a recent phenomenon. Its what happens when the news is owned primarily by rich people. Similar in most other countries.
Good point not like corporate owners are that new 🤷♀️ But the size of the conglomerates has distanced the CEOs from the purpose and ethics of a news room
Conrad Black destroyed Canada's newspapers.
Spot on!
Its Mossad. $0.02
The CBC already capitulated to the far-right about half-way through the convoy.
100% agree. People are failing to recognize that the legacy media is now part of the authoritarian threat & must be dismantled, same as the Cabal that is destroying all of our institutions.
Its slightly changing, but only because they have to If they didn't it would be to clear they ate propaganda. Corporate media is pro corporation not the citizens
Canada needs to expand the CBC. Like the BBC in England. This is the response every time so idiot Con says defund or get rid of the CBC. CBC 1 CBC 2 CBC 3 CBC 4
100% I can see Australia suffering the same fate. #auspol #newscorpse
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We also need to educate people to critically think when they are watching and reading the news.
It's happening in Britain
I don’t get why rich dems haven’t been buying up media companies.
I’m starting to believe the Red Tory we voted in isn’t so red. We’re in big trouble here too.
We really need to stop giving PostMedia free money. Its quite ridiculous that we fund these papers.
Exactly! He is the dog whistle master.
Most of our Canadian media is owned by Postmedia down in the US. Only a few that are still owned by Canadian companies.
Absolutely.
Watch out for previously Canadian owned papers like the National Post; they’re U.S. policy organs, much like O’Leary and Peterson.
In Australia we have to contend with Fox ‘news’ owner who owns the vast majority of our media. I look forward to his passing. He’s caused enough problems in both USA and Australia. #Auspol
The son is just as bad.
Save yourselves before it's too late.
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Far too late for the UK
High taxes on the ultra-rich defend democracy against becoming oligarchy. It's not 100% that simple, but it's not complicated.
There is no defence to this misinformation onslaught. AI is just getting started. The truth will be whatever is beneficial to those who control the very phone I hold in my hand right now. All the information on earth at our fingertips. We choose angry news, comedy, sports, any escape.Truth is boring
that's Britain fucked, then.
And complicit corporations, colleges, universities, law firms and everyone who has capitulated to a despot.
Yeah Rosie. So push back or step off.
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It happened in the UK many years ago
What we need in Canada is objective reporting and laws regarding falsehoods in media. We also need media that is not owned by American conglomerates. Canadian owned and adhering to strict journalistic principals.
Same has happened to in the UK
SO TRUE! Even if I only had three channels again, I yearn for the factual news media of 40 yrs. ago!
Sun, Mail, Express, Telegraph, Independent, in England are foreign owned by right wing tax dodgers and oligarchs.
I mean, @kristenwelker.bsky.social / @meetthepress.com/ @nbcnews.com and Martha Raddatz/ This Week/ @abcnetwork.bsky.social served as witting fools for Trump on their shows this weeks, parroting MAGA talking points.
Exactly.
Also the “regular” media seems to have a problem asking follow up questions and bringing up facts.
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People are in the streets everyday. This is a huge country, but that statement is nevertheless true, somewhere, every day, at some scale. Not to mention all the #DisruptICE, court battles, mutual aid, and political organizing. But you'd never know it from our corporate-controlled MSM.
(Let's not even get started with their refusal to name what is happening or report on Trump's deterioration.) And at this point, that failure to report cannot be called anything but collaboration.
This might help. The propaganda machine in the US has focused on vilifying migrants as criminals who consume government resources. Those characterizations are patently false, but nobody in the US challenged those memes. You need an across the board effort from media and the public to counter it.
Seeing the media boost and legitimize Farage in the UK is like watching a slow moving train wreck
Identical playbook to what was done in the US
Identical!!
Who owns those rags
Prohibited ownership via private equity—in part—in the U.S. that is.
Murdoch!!!
Are you sure? I'd be willing to bet it's the same hedge fund that owns the similar post and Sun rags as in Canada
A list of what Postmedia own.
I just checked because it was owned by Postmedia: The "Winnipeg Sun" was bought by "Klein Group" in May 2024, a Manitoban company. We're completely free from any foreign ownership now. All media companies for print is Manitoban owned and operated.
He owns a few big papers and I think Sky News I'm sure most of the others are a bunch of the other douchebags too 😖
I did notice that it’s either Farage or Badenoke in the headlines on BBC and Channel 4 spouting policies they have been paid to spout. I understand Revolt got £2m and Tories £8m by the oil lobby I don’t know who in the BBC has been paid to boost their message.
Not quite as obvious as an envelope of cash in a bag of chips but along the same lines 😅
Unfortunately, it’s not that slow. And the BBC, Sky News are in on the act as well.
The fight are riding here in Britain ffs Why does history keep repeating itself? It’s time for HERstory instead a time of MATRIARCHAL power & leadership What’s the matter guys scared of being shown up? (Same for the footie & the rugby our BRITISH WOMEN ROCK) It’s time to move over boys …
youre odds are much better. most Canadians know how to read above 6th grade level and conduct rational thought.
Polievre is a traitor!
He is a banker, what you expect
Yes, protect yourselves. Our system was way too open for those who can’t handle it.
Thank you for speaking truth to power.
absolutely, we would not be here if it hadn't been for a long decline in our media ecosystem that enable manipulation and lies...it's astonishing to meet people who have only watched one news channel and have a skewed view of reality
If no one stops it here in america. Better believe whats happening here will come for the rest of democracy. Get ready to fight cuz theres no country that'll be immune.
Agreed.
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Rebel News here is as bad as Fox
UK here. Too late. Its how Brexit happened. Lies spread through rw media. Same for the rise of right in Europe. But all of this has Putin at its root. Creating and exploiting mass migration, the key tool of the rw press.
Co-sign from here in the states.
Nailed it. We don’t have a free press now.
They are really trying to take over UK media. Farage is a MAGA wannabe and he's on a summer rampage stirring up hate. He needs to be gone yesterday.