A short thread about newspapers:
In the US, some newspapers basically rented out their front page to help get Trump elected in 2016. They worked like little billboards in the grocery isle campaigning all year long.
Think about that next time you shop.
nationalobserver.com/2018/08/28/new…
In the US, some newspapers basically rented out their front page to help get Trump elected in 2016. They worked like little billboards in the grocery isle campaigning all year long.
Think about that next time you shop.
nationalobserver.com/2018/08/28/new…
"David Pecker’s reach into US society is unescapable: he owns nearly every supermarket tabloid and gossip sheet in the United States, including the flagship publication National Enquirer."
theguardian.com/media/2018/aug…
theguardian.com/media/2018/aug…
To protect Trump, Pecker would buy up then bury stories.
"The National Enquirer and its former publisher American Media Inc. (AMI) buried around 60 damaging stories about Donald Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election"
newsweek.com/national-enqui…
"The National Enquirer and its former publisher American Media Inc. (AMI) buried around 60 damaging stories about Donald Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election"
newsweek.com/national-enqui…
The National Enquirer’s parent company acknowledged paying hush money to a woman who alleged an affair with Donald Trump to “suppress the woman’s story” and “prevent it from influencing the election.”
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
American Media Inc's parent company Chatham Asset Management knew what was happening. Chatham was founded by Anthony Melchiorre.
It's impossible he didn't know what the companies he owned were doing.
fortune.com/2019/03/18/cha…
It's impossible he didn't know what the companies he owned were doing.
fortune.com/2019/03/18/cha…
Anthony Melchiorre, doesn’t give interviews, and no photo of him is available online.
The company’s main office is on the second floor of a nondescript, two-story office building in Chatham, NJ, 28 miles west of the Manhattan skyscrapers.
jimmycsays.com/2020/02/15/sha…
The company’s main office is on the second floor of a nondescript, two-story office building in Chatham, NJ, 28 miles west of the Manhattan skyscrapers.
jimmycsays.com/2020/02/15/sha…
Does this have something to do with Alberta?
Yes, we're getting there.
"Since Chatham Asset Management took over Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper chain, 1,600 employees have been laid off and more than 30 papers shut down."
nytimes.com/2020/07/16/bus…
Yes, we're getting there.
"Since Chatham Asset Management took over Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper chain, 1,600 employees have been laid off and more than 30 papers shut down."
nytimes.com/2020/07/16/bus…
Remember that Pecker was Director of Postmedia, which is owned by Chatham and Anthony Melchiorre.
They employed many of the same strategies that helped Trump win in 2016 to help boost Kenney in 2019. (Perhaps minus the “catch and kill” stuff.)
They employed many of the same strategies that helped Trump win in 2016 to help boost Kenney in 2019. (Perhaps minus the “catch and kill” stuff.)
"This position naturally led to a widespread imputation to us, and to me personally, of trying to mould public opinion in Canada and push and bully office-holders into policies we favoured, or that could be of particular material benefit to us. "
nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad…
nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad…
Through his Southam and Hollinger emplres, Black was able to push the Overton Window further right.
"Black’s Hollinger chain was once the world’s third-largest English-language newspaper company, operating more than 300 newspapers."
"Black’s Hollinger chain was once the world’s third-largest English-language newspaper company, operating more than 300 newspapers."
Wait what's the Overton Window?
It's a metaphor for "What's acceptable" in a society.
torontoguardian.com/2019/05/long-c…
It's a metaphor for "What's acceptable" in a society.
torontoguardian.com/2019/05/long-c…
Black wielded much influence with his media empire. Not unlike Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News.
#cdnmedia
marketwatch.com/story/heres-th…
#cdnmedia
marketwatch.com/story/heres-th…
In 2018, Black published “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other.”
This did what the Enquirer cover pages did: it put a little billboard in stores to advertise Trump's brand. Subtle.
The same thing is done to push right-wing ideology by Postmedia.
nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/t…
This did what the Enquirer cover pages did: it put a little billboard in stores to advertise Trump's brand. Subtle.
The same thing is done to push right-wing ideology by Postmedia.
nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/t…
There are a number of companies that have risen from the ashes of Black's former empire. Some of them were started by Black's former partners.
They do many of the same things.
Quietly pushing the Overton Window.
Quietly manufacturing consent.
They do many of the same things.
Quietly pushing the Overton Window.
Quietly manufacturing consent.
There is an illusion of choice in our media.
Here we see Postmedia, Glacier Media, and Black Press Media each own dozens of brands.
#cdnmedia #cdnpoli
Here we see Postmedia, Glacier Media, and Black Press Media each own dozens of brands.
#cdnmedia #cdnpoli
So when you see the president of a business lobby group post a pro-business public relations piece, remember to ask questions.
Where else was this published? Who paid to defend the actions of these businesses?
Where else was this published? Who paid to defend the actions of these businesses?
https://twitter.com/ElwiraRosiak/status/1319506310526689280?s=20
Who knows what you'll discover.
#ableg #cdnpoli #cdnmedia
#ableg #cdnpoli #cdnmedia
https://twitter.com/youseepeeYYC/status/1318637710496727042?s=20
Bonus for making it this far:
An excellent documentary co-produced with the venerable
@thenfb: "Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media"
nfb.ca/film/manufactu…
An excellent documentary co-produced with the venerable
@thenfb: "Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media"
nfb.ca/film/manufactu…
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