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Basically trying to nostalgia bait people but buddy saw right through it and went in for the kill.

[–] ambientdread@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

A+ for staying on message.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

-"Snow is pretty"

-"Mmhmm, so private equity owns..."

They did streisand this effect very nicely without even trying.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She was trying to do a fluff piece interview, and he was trying to drop hard facts. I'm glad he didn't back down on his points.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 days ago

Haven't watched it but sounds like someone with strong convictions and an idea why things are the way they are. Hopefully eventually enough people recognize the fact that we need a functional society that allows the random person to feel comfortable. Cause if you get enough itchy people things get scratched.

[–] commander@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago

As unhinged as social media gets, this is pretty much why so many end up trusting it over traditional media. The internet broke the veil of commercial reporting/journalism - media in general. Broke the trust on accepting public personas and not being suspicious of them behind the scenes. Sell out reporters/journalist/artists/etc are like scabs to labor strikers

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 246 points 2 days ago (8 children)

The news reporter wanted a feel good puff piece regardless of how inappropriate it is. The interviewee wanted to report the actual news.

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The company that owns that NBC affiliate wanted a feel good puff piece. I doubt she had a say in the matter.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, she's just following orders.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We all know how good "just following orders" and "just doing my job" turns out.

[–] xSikes@feddit.online 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But it wasn’t inappropriate…

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To the holding company it is.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago

hoarding company*

🤌🏼

[–] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

A misunderstanding on your part I thinks. I believe they are saying it was inappropriate to attempt to sanitize reality so they could release a "feel good puff piece".

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[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 264 points 2 days ago

Can't let people say the truth, it would inconvenience your masters.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 109 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It really makes you wonder how these reporters are trained. What else can they not talk about on air?

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anything that goes against the values of Sinclair or NexStar would be off the table.

[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago

So general common sense like fuck ICE and free Palestine?

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 days ago

Pretty much everything that isn't on their script, IIRC.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 89 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Crazy how fast she pulled back on that. Like she has been trained to not allow that sort of talk. It was almost instant.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

From to in an instant!

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A dog watching another dog bite the hand that feeds her.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like NBC needs to study and read socialist theory. Seriously! https://redsails.org/

[–] OleFoFa@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They probably did, but decided to pick the side of the billionaire class/got told by their owners (the billionaire class) that they were to pick the side of the billionaire class in order to facilitate the continued exploitation of ordinary people

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Gee, would've been a shame if NBC gets split and then to the workers who would then collectivize it. Seriously!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 179 points 2 days ago (6 children)

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

[–] Lupus@feddit.org 90 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Careful with that quote, it's by Kevin Alfred Strom a Neo-Nazi from an 1993 essay in the national Vanguard, a white nationalist publication and it refers to the antisemitic trope of world Judaism.

I'm not criticizing you, just want to contextualize it because it could be misconstrued to be a antisemitic dog-whistle, especially in the context of the linked article.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 days ago (6 children)

It's an axiomatic truism. It's logic is self contained.

To learn who is wet, simply find out who is in the water.

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[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I knew it was the kids with cancer all along!

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 days ago

And this is why legacy media is legacy media.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago

She pulled back the microphone mid sentence when he refused to let the conversation get derailed.

Very sus

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 94 points 2 days ago (1 children)

lol I love that guy, he definitely like "oh ya, it's my time, I'm over this shit, but I'll be polite about it"

[–] Sundiata@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

she smiles like the woman from ba sing se,

the back in the 90s part screams body language of desperation to signal to him to play along and say what she wants him to say.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

If the fediverse can focus on integrating content from from other fediverse sources extremely organically, the fediverse will win. I shouldn't have to leave Lemmy to watch this video.

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You need to leave? I could just watch it on the timeline. Using jerboa, I guess it depends on client.

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[–] aka@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 days ago

It's embedded for me ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Time for a new client, it sounds like 🖖🏼🤓

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[–] thlibos@thelemmy.club 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

She knows exactly what she is doing. She probably wouldn't even get into any trouble if she had let the guy go on for a bit since it is just a random, live interview. Doesn't matter, though, as boot-fellating, spittle-licking toadies will instantly and hungrily provide cover for the owner class. There will always be a critical mass of just about every demographic (even those you would not expect it from) who will be willing to sell out for that payday. If she doesn't try to silence or steamroll any even remotely anti-greed rhetoric she might be passed over for that next promotion.

Shout out to Washington Heights. I used to live at Fort Washington and 181st. I miss it.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They better never interview me on live TV. Ill be asking the reporter where they will be hiding when the revolution comes.

https://youtu.be/IwvrGHsjD7g

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Don't worry, they'd make sure that clip of you'd never make it to air. 🫡

[–] atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I wonder what New York would have been if Henry George had become mayor back then

This guy is my hero

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