Maybe it's the paradox about multiple choices

9 different brands would be too much for most people

I think 3-4 is the sweet spot

far left centre left

far right centre right

Correct.

But here we have Comcast and AT&T owning the narrative. The news and the way you access it (cable, dish, streaming)

Wait... AT&T even owns the NEWS?!

People are waking up to the fake news though

Sprinkle in Disney and the NYT and you mostly have it covered. I just don’t get how all these “news” outlets are aligned to push the same narrative. Or why

AT&T owns CNN

Yeah, RCS&RDS or Digi, which are a cable company in Romania, also have a news channel.

They're backed by the deep state

It's seemingly pro-COVID propaganda.

it's their proporganda arm

Comcast owns CNBC and NBC partner with Microsoft for MSNBC

Wait... Microsoft and Comcast own MSNBC?!

Yeah

Wow, imagine the ideas that Bill Gates would give to them

I remember when NBC and MSFT partnered up to take on CNN in cable news space. Mid 90s?

Most of our cable and satellite companies are... umm, so we have RCS&RDS (Digi), Vodafone (which bought UPC this year), Orange, Telekom (which bought our Romtelecom in 2013-2014, a bit before Klaus Iohannis was elected. Coincidence?!)

We also have AKTA, it's not a monopoly like the US cable market

For now

That’s the irony is they call conservatives fascists while they follow the fascist playbook in controlling the media and the news

I think??? Who knows what is hiding under the courtains?

^

Again, they're talking about themselves when they call us that

US cable is mostly a duopoly. I would say Time Warner cable (AT&T) and Comcast cable are the biggest. Between them they own many other providers too (ATT Uverse, Directv, Roku)

I have to look into COX communications Charter and a few other regional players to see if they are still independently owned

Disney owns ABC/ESPN and Viacom owns CBS

but they all pump the same narrative

Behind the scenes it's all the same people pulling the strings

So one big impact of this. Regardless of whether people watch CNN MSNBC or the others they will always be in every channel package whether you want it or not. The market mechanism doesn’t exist because the cable company owns the network

CNN is channel 201 on Directtv but you have to scroll to like 1357 to find Fox News 😄

Bruh.

I know why they'd do that.

more people are getting their news from independent sources on youtube ect now days though

Yep

That is a good thing. But the headline algos of big tech are biased

I watched the news once, and I remembered the television told me something. They were showing some 3D graphs and shamefully flexing on how television is still the most trusted news source by Romanians 😤

Google app on my phone only has CNN and NYT headlines it seems like. Bing app used to let you block a news source permanently but that “stopped working” in the election year