Commentators like the New York Times’ Bret Stephens have called slain CEO Brian Thompson a “working-class hero.” You don’t have to condone murder to see through that ridiculous claim about a man who was at the helm of a legalized extortion racket.
  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 day ago

    something which much of the press blamed on the increasingly violent tactics of the suffragettes

    I’m sure the press of their time was pure and true reporters of fact rather than manufacturers of consent defending the status quo.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      And yet, just as now, the press drove public opinion. PR is everything and I don’t know why people don’t get that.