Brutkey

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@misty@digipres.club feel good small business stories do reinforce the narrative that "all businesses are just mom and pop business at heart" sure

which isn't to say it's selected for its propaganda but it is to say it isn't rejected like stories of "another business goes under" for being too depressing

people like to quote the "if one guy says it's raining and one guy says it isn't, your job as a journo is to look out the window"

but do not add "so i don't have to look every time"

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@misty@digipres.club maybe i'm projecting from plucky britain over here but i see a lot of "america endures" type pieces heh

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@misty@digipres.club years ago, decades even, i bumped into the "stuff white people like" post about how we love raising awareness and honestly i will never unsee it

there's this belief that with enough attention a problem gets solved, and that we as consumers set the narrative and the press reports on it

and well it's usually a cruel awakening when it's "wait why didn't they cover our protest" happens for the first time

i should stop before i turn into a chomsky parody

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@misty@digipres.club aside, my "you are not immune to propaganda" moment, of many, was realising that in a "the purpose is what it does" way, the function of NASA was so that america could employ war criminals to build rockets to carry nuclear weapons, while putting a happy civilian smile on the end product

cf why the shuttle is like that, to steal satellites heh

the cognitive dissonance is akin to the NYT, which also hires war criminals, but to write propaganda, rather than engineering