• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    245 months ago

    We need more people in these positions calling out Musk as saluting like a nazi; I just feel bad that they are loosing their jobs

  • NutWrench
    link
    fedilink
    English
    285 months ago

    Dear News Media. Your job is speaking truth to power, which means you’re going to make a lot of enemies. So unlike other big companies, the point of your legal department is to get you OUT of trouble, not to keep you from ever getting into it. Having principles in the business world isn’t cheap or easy. Nothing worthwhile ever is.

  • NutWrench
    link
    fedilink
    English
    725 months ago

    So why is CBS affiliate WDJT-TV in Milwaukee Wisconsin defending the speech of an apartheid-loving fascist who did a full-on nazi salute on national TV? And if that’s not what they’re doing, then why did they fire that reporter?

    That’s the question that every real news outlet should be asking.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        9
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        The position people tend to see as “criticized” is that which they directly or indirectly get from the Press, and the Press is bought and paid for and has been working as a Propaganda arm of a subset of the population rather than as Journalists, for decades.

        IMHO, the Consent for “Billionaire openly making a Nazi salute during Presidential Inauguration of Far-Right populist multi-millionaire” has been Manufactured and the acceptance of this by many and feeling of impotence about it by many others was never the product of natural Tolerance.

        PS: In fact, the very events on the article the OP posted - that somebody in a public-facing position in the Press was fired for being a dissenting voice - give weight to the point I’m making.

  • slax
    link
    fedilink
    English
    185 months ago

    Oh man, those poor folks still on X, fighting and hoping that they still have the freedom of expression. Have they not seen any WWII movies? Just sitting around won’t do anything to stop the hate and what the President and his crew are up to.

  • jim
    link
    fedilink
    English
    745 months ago

    Cool = CBS blocked, I don’t support Nazi’s

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    85 months ago

    I just can’t understand how some people can stand behind this and defend it. If a major news station is either being forced or did this themselves, than I just don’t know what to think of this.

  • Elaine Cortez
    link
    fedilink
    English
    1055 months ago

    This is honestly really scary. Why should someone’s livelihood be ruined for calling something what it is?

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      64
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      Fascism.

      He’s also on a list for when their squads start knocking down doors and murdering their enemies, I guarantee it.

      He’s probably got at least another year before that frog is boiled enough though. Hope he enjoys it.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        3
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        The Neoliberals too have been using exactly the same technique to crush dissent, since it gives them plausible deniability (i.e. they claim it was for some other reason than silencing somebody) which is the essence of how they apply Force (people aren’t violently made to do or stop doing something, they’re just pushed into a situation were they have no other option or see the example of what happens to others when they don’t comply)

        A specifically Fascist method would’ve involved violent use of Force, for example arrest or her being violently attacked on the street, rather than indirect methods like this firing.

        Let’s not leave the other Far-Right ideology of the hook just because their methods are are better PR-wise: their disempowering of the many and subversion of all the pillars of Democracy helped pave the way for the Fascists.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    375 months ago

    It’s good to reach out to WDJT-TV (DJT huh?) and tell them they are cowards. It’s also good to reach out via her public social media and let Sam Kuffel know that what she did has support.