• hayvan@piefed.worldEnglish
    101·
    11 days ago

    When you don’t want your audience to think about any real issues, you pick one or two focus on them so hard that anyone watching that is the single biggest problem in the world ever.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      23·
      11 days ago

      if they didn’t do that, then they might have to actually report some news to fill out their broadcast day.

    • Midnitte@beehaw.orgEnglish
      16·
      10 days ago

      Also helps if the population is small and politically powerless so they can be exploited for political gain.

      • story@lemmy.zipBanned from communityEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        the comfy places always seem to have no political power for the workers. as a comfort-seeker, we get tricked so easily