• merari42@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    Fox, Sinclair, Google and Disney are all fair choices in the thread, but every country has their local evil media companies too.In Germany Axel Springer and the Bild-Zeitung are at least in the “Also ran category” for most evil media company.

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
    60·
    10 days ago
    • anything owned by Rupert Murdoch
    • anything owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
    • anything affiliated with Fox News Media (ref. Rupert Murdoch)

    propaganda mouthpieces run by some dictator are a known factor whereas this list are trying to actively undermine the political process

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    30·
    10 days ago

    There was a video a few years back of Sinclair(?) or something that had all the networks they owned say the same thing, and it was very dystopian.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    10 days ago

    News Corp. and The Daily Mail and General Trust seem pretty evil. (In fact, let’s just say every company that owns a UK tabloid is at least 80% evil.)

    Sinclair Broadcasting in the U.S. is scum too. They own a bunch of local TV channels and also their corresponding web sites. A lot of places in the U.S. have seen their local newspaper disappear (or shrink to where it might as well have) and Sinclair filled the void and pushes right wing tabloid crap.

    Local TV news in the U.S. is low key one of the worst offenders at creating false narratives. I live in a city and half my older relatives think I live in a war zone because of how local news is now structured: violent crime, a story about the moral panic du jour (like “Is your teen eating Tide Pods?”) followed by sports, traffic, and weather. I’m probably a million times more likely to be killed by a car than murdered but they only cover car accidents if it’s like, “Prom queen dies in accident.”

  • saigot@lemmy.ca
    222·
    10 days ago

    I think people seriously underestimate how much disney controls western values.

    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
      55·
      10 days ago

      Given how strongly Disney and their subsidiaries support LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights, I’m gonna say that they don’t have nearly enough control.

          • forensic_potato@lemmy.world
            32·
            9 days ago

            Indeed they can and do support things…things that will allow them to make more money. They are called investments.

            The “fight” with DeSantis was all theatre and their “win” simply allows them to continue to rule on their land as if nothing changed.

            And I think you are mixing correlation with causation: just because they happen to support and give money to Democrats, it doesn’t mean they stand by them. In the same link you shared, it shows they gave money to the Republicans and Nikki Haley…which is not something someone would do if they truly supported the things you said they do.

            And that’s the whole point. They are not someone. They are a company, controlled by individuals who are simply looking to maximize profits. You think they are left- or center-aligned but that is simply because that reflects the majority of their customer base. If tomorrow the right suddenly comprised the majority of their customers, they would change side immediately.

            I cannot believe people in 2024 still think giant multinational companies can “be on their side”

            • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
              11·
              9 days ago

              You think they are left- or center-aligned but that is simply because that reflects the majority of their customer base

              Yes. And the same fact means that they will continue to support causes on the left, and the right will continue to demonize them, which will further reinforce them as supporting the left. It’s self-perpetuating. Of course companies do things to make money; their support for LGBTQ+ causes is because they can see the writing on the wall, and know that support for that is growing, and will continue to grow. And Disney, by supporting it, increases the rate that it grows.

              I cannot believe people in 2024 still think giant multinational companies can “be on their side”

              They are “on their side” when it’s in their interest to do so. Which, bluntly, is true for almost all people. Absolute altruism–doing a ‘good’ thing for which you receive absolutely no reward (including public recognition or a sense of smug superiority) at all–is so rare as to be extinct. That’s how politics is always played, my dude.

              • forensic_potato@lemmy.world
                11·
                9 days ago

                They are “on their side” when it’s in their interest to do so. Which, bluntly, is true for almost all people. Absolute altruism–doing a ‘good’ thing for which you receive absolutely no reward (including public recognition or a sense of smug superiority) at all–is so rare as to be extinct. That’s how politics is always played, my dude

                …that’s literally what I have been saying. Matter of fact, your whole reply was just a different way of saying the same thing. You just repeated my points and tried to be cool by adding the “my dude” at the end.

                I’m done with this pointless conversation. Goodbye

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    10 days ago

    No question about this here would be complete without mentioning that the reason the myth persists that lemmings commit suicide out of natural instinct is that people shooting a Disney nature documentary wanted footage of lemmings doing this and disgruntledly pushed thousands of them off a ledge when it was discovered they don’t do this because it would get them that footage.

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
    12·
    10 days ago

    Google owns YouTube, so it’s technically a media corporation.
    I’m going with Google

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    7·
    10 days ago

    I immediately thought of Meta, but it’s a vast tapestry of evil out there. Maybe I should aim for a Top 5 Desert Island Evil Media List. Or we could do something like a Letterman Top 10.