This is a trend that has been bugging me:
"Mr Conservative has 2.1 million FB fans and we recently showed that its owner also runs liberal hyperpartisan sites"
https://twitter.com/CraigSilverman/status/903234673249280000
I've heard of a few other outrage-mongers doing this kind of thing as well. It's bad enough that people are getting sorted by algorithm into self-contained infobubbles. The idea that all the infobubbles could be dominated by the same small set of media owners is even scarier.
At least people know that CNN is milquetoast corporate media, you know?
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@tobascodagama
> all the infobubbles could be dominated by the same small set of media owners is even scarier
it's already a given, though -- plenty of media outlets "before" the 24-hr news cycle simply got bought by people 'investing' and then manipulation slowly started to seem attractive (or was slowly implemented)
it only makes sense that the new media (which has mostly got 'bought' or 'sponsored' by old media by now) is the same way :\