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

And they sometimes have to brag about their ratings, as well. Not always, but at random times, they do. I think.

> 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
@yeti_steamroller kinda sus.

Even our BBC has a hefty left wing bias now

Sky News Australia is showing up with conservative stories. I think Murdoch still owns it

Everyone else is scared of China

I watch sky news Australia, they seem to pretty good

Sky News Australia is our only hope

They're the only ones who actually tell us the TRUTH

There's still a couple decent conservative papers here that I read online aswell

its true

@TornadoTRG <#724105495165796372>

Have you guys seen “Out of Shadows”?

no

Didn’t it say that all these News betwirks were owned by the same six people/companies??

Oh @Dante I really recommend it

yeah?

If you can still find it

where can I watch it?

ah ok