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[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 255 points 2 months ago

The news reporter wanted a feel good puff piece regardless of how inappropriate it is. The interviewee wanted to report the actual news.

[-] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 2 months ago

The company that owns that NBC affiliate wanted a feel good puff piece. I doubt she had a say in the matter.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Yeah, she's just following orders.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We all know how good "just following orders" and "just doing my job" turns out.

[-] xSikes@feddit.online 13 points 2 months ago

But it wasn’t inappropriate…

[-] BeardededSquidward 24 points 2 months ago

To the holding company it is.

[-] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

A misunderstanding on your part I thinks. I believe they are saying it was inappropriate to attempt to sanitize reality so they could release a "feel good puff piece".

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 189 points 2 months ago

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

[-] Lupus@feddit.org 94 points 2 months ago

Careful with that quote, it's by Kevin Alfred Strom a Neo-Nazi from an 1993 essay in the national Vanguard, a white nationalist publication and it refers to the antisemitic trope of world Judaism.

I'm not criticizing you, just want to contextualize it because it could be misconstrued to be a antisemitic dog-whistle, especially in the context of the linked article.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 months ago

It's an axiomatic truism. It's logic is self contained.

To learn who is wet, simply find out who is in the water.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Logic self contained within nature's perfect geometry, a circle.

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[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago

Well, that just means he has experience ruling over people, and not allowing them to criticize him.

That means it's valid.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 45 points 2 months ago

I knew it was the kids with cancer all along!

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah! Those little brats have had it too easy for too long!

Well not that long EACH, but you know 🤷

[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Didn't a literal Nazi coin that phrase while talking about jews?

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[-] bagsy@lemmy.world 114 points 2 months ago

It really makes you wonder how these reporters are trained. What else can they not talk about on air?

[-] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 2 months ago

Anything that goes against the values of Sinclair or NexStar would be off the table.

[-] Tm12@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago

So general common sense like fuck ICE and free Palestine?

[-] plz1@lemmy.world 97 points 2 months ago

She was trying to do a fluff piece interview, and he was trying to drop hard facts. I'm glad he didn't back down on his points.

[-] orbitz@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 months ago

Haven't watched it but sounds like someone with strong convictions and an idea why things are the way they are. Hopefully eventually enough people recognize the fact that we need a functional society that allows the random person to feel comfortable. Cause if you get enough itchy people things get scratched.

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago

Haven’t watched it

It's a 30 second clip mate

[-] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 months ago

30 seconds of sound when you're pooping on the toilet at work, is 30 seconds too much sound. Hypothetically speaking.

[-] modus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

You sit idly pooping while so much of the housing stock in the US is owned by hedge funds?

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[-] laranis@lemmy.zip 95 points 2 months ago

Crazy how fast she pulled back on that. Like she has been trained to not allow that sort of talk. It was almost instant.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From to in an instant!

[-] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A dog watching another dog bite the hand that feeds her.

[-] commander@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago

As unhinged as social media gets, this is pretty much why so many end up trusting it over traditional media. The internet broke the veil of commercial reporting/journalism - media in general. Broke the trust on accepting public personas and not being suspicious of them behind the scenes. Sell out reporters/journalist/artists/etc are like scabs to labor strikers

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If the fediverse can focus on integrating content from from other fediverse sources extremely organically, the fediverse will win. I shouldn't have to leave Lemmy to watch this video.

[-] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 months ago

You need to leave? I could just watch it on the timeline. Using jerboa, I guess it depends on client.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Ok web, its embedded. On mobile, I have to hop out.

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[-] aka@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 months ago

It's embedded for me ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 months ago

Legend. Came back to his point with a friendly smile, and plenty of grace

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[-] ambientdread@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

A+ for staying on message.

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago

-"Snow is pretty"

-"Mmhmm, so private equity owns..."

[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 months ago

She pulled back the microphone mid sentence when he refused to let the conversation get derailed.

Very sus

[-] SCmSTR 32 points 2 months ago

And this is why legacy media is legacy media.

[-] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 months ago

They better never interview me on live TV. Ill be asking the reporter where they will be hiding when the revolution comes.

https://youtu.be/IwvrGHsjD7g

[-] HertzDentalBar 28 points 2 months ago

Basically trying to nostalgia bait people but buddy saw right through it and went in for the kill.

[-] thlibos@thelemmy.club 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

She knows exactly what she is doing. She probably wouldn't even get into any trouble if she had let the guy go on for a bit since it is just a random, live interview. Doesn't matter, though, as boot-fellating, spittle-licking toadies will instantly and hungrily provide cover for the owner class. There will always be a critical mass of just about every demographic (even those you would not expect it from) who will be willing to sell out for that payday. If she doesn't try to silence or steamroll any even remotely anti-greed rhetoric she might be passed over for that next promotion.

Shout out to Washington Heights. I used to live at Fort Washington and 181st. I miss it.

[-] webdoodle@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago

Operation Mockingbird 2.0 - Totalitarian Domination by controlling the narrative.

[-] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 months ago

Sounds like NBC needs to study and read socialist theory. Seriously! https://redsails.org/

[-] OleFoFa@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

They probably did, but decided to pick the side of the billionaire class/got told by their owners (the billionaire class) that they were to pick the side of the billionaire class in order to facilitate the continued exploitation of ordinary people

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
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[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

This guy is my hero

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