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@Deleted User why in incognito?

Thanks.

@R E P T I L E because NYTimes has an article limit for unsubscribed users

oh

you can only view 5 articles a month

This aien't my first rodeo.

so if you use incognito, they can't detect how many times you used it

I've been in these dern results since PA-14

PA-14?

18

Got the district mixed up.

It's now PA-14.

Reminder: Danny O'Connor is likely to lead in the early vote. Do not panic if you see that.

Reminder: Danny O'Connor is likely to lead in the early vote. Do not panic if you see that.

Reminder: Danny O'Connor is likely to lead in the early vote. Do not panic if you see that.

Reminder: Danny O'Connor is likely to lead in the early vote. Do not panic if you see that.

Reminder: Danny O'Connor is likely to lead in the early vote. Do not panic if you see that.

Reminder: Danny O'Connor is likely to lead in the early vote. Do not panic if you see that.

Reminder: Danny O'Connor is likely to lead in the early vote. Do not panic if you see that.

Button won't see this.

I don't think Button is going to be on tonight

thank god

I feel terrible because I've gotta get off early tonight.

If this is close it'll suck waking up in the mornin.

My classes got cancelled tomorrow hell yes!

Legalize the recreational use of hellfire missiles

Wish I could join the chat but I'm working

As Ben Bagdikian, the former dean of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism points out in The New Media Monopoly, “The possibilities for mutual promotion among all their various media is the basic reason the Big Five [now six: Comcast, News Corporation, Time Warner, Disney, Viacom, and CBS] have become major owners of all kinds of media. For example, actors and actresses in a conglomerate’s wholly owned movie studio can appear on the same company’s television and cable networks, photographs of the newly minted celebrities can dominate the covers of the firm’s wholly owned magazines, and those celebrities can be interviewed on the firm’s wholly owned radio and television talk shows. The conglomerate can commission an author from its wholly owned book publishing firm to write a biography or purported autobiography of the new stars, which in turn is promoted on the firm’s other media.”87

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@[Lex] TL;DR

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Edward Bernays, father of modern marketing and nephew of Sigmund Freud wrote, “Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of...in almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.” He also admitted, “Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.” This “invisible government,” he says, “tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the opinions and habits of the masses.”

Two important passages on the influence of social media oligopolies on the mind of the society and the extent of their power.

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Thanks

20 min until OH-12 RESULTS!

@Ghawk

3 minutes until polls close

@Deleted User I will be on in a few, I still need to workout and take a shower

I need to lift, too.

Whats the OH elections importance

I've been skimping out on lifting in these recent bits.

Indeed.

@Nate OH-12 could be regarded as a bellwether for Nov 6