politics

Free speech is an endangered species here in the US

Free speech is an endangered species here in the US
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/feb/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Sometimes filmmaker/artist. Often up in arms. Big dreams/little bags. Crypto true believer. 

one of the benefits of abandoning mainstream US media years ago, aside from developing immunity to the immense propaganda they vomit up each day, is not having to care that they’re getting worse, because they were never a trusted source

writing stuff about tech + decentralization

I care because too many people still use mainstream media as their news source. It gets worse every day. The propaganda, the lack of journalistic integrity.

I know it’s a losing battle but I still think it’s important to keep calling it out. My close circle is on board but you will never get my 87 year old dad to stop reading physical papers, for instance. But he’s also not dumb. Regardless of how we feel about it a majority of people receive their news from mainstream media. I can’t just ignore the manipulation.

Right. Good point about other people but wouldn’t a better approach be to try to push/pull those people to other sources rather than just wishing media owned by billionaires will be benevolent with respect to freedom of the press?

Like I’m not suggesting we should undermine the free press. I think it’s incredibly important. I’m just not sure what the right approach is here.  Definitely sharing this kind of thing that shows the lack of credibility is important, but look how little effect the leaks about the NYT’s internal memos about Gaza did.