I always find it funny how hung up the media class has been on Keshoggi. Its a fairly intense bit of class solidarity I suppose. Like in terms of pointless and evil acts of the Saudi Arabia state it doesn't even rank but its seemingly the only thing journalists remember

[–] TimLovesTech@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Probably because in a free from authoritarian government the free press is supposed to be the ultimate checks and balances on personal liberty. When you can't even write something negative about a leader without being dismembered in a hotel and disposed of in duffle bags like trash, that should be ringing alarms for anyone that isn't licking boots.

[–] hessianerd@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Wasn't he investigating payments from MBS to Jared Kushner?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

free press is supposed to be the ultimate checks and balances on personal liberty.

So what does it mean when "free" press is all just owned by rich chucklefucks who have a vested interest in making things as unfree for the working class as possible?

[–] TimLovesTech@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It means that the alarm bells went off and people paid more attention to capitalism, and voting in people that actively worked against them, because those elected officials treated people they disliked even worse. Then we got a wanna be dictator that went full "journalists are an enemy of the state" because they say mean (TRUE) things about him. Journalists now choose between being able to eat, or sounding the alarm that costs them a job (and falls on deaf ears).

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