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[–] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 67 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Fox. They canceled Firefly.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Almost as evil as canceling Firefly: Their "news" channel perpetuating conspiracy theories, fascist talking points, and outright lies.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Warner Bros, they didn't just cancel things, they scrubbed things just for tax breaks.

And they also canceled Final Space, bastards.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Didn't they not just cancel Final Space, but will also make sure it isn't available anywhere?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They sure as fuck did, they did that to a lot of their content but Final Space was one of the first and what I was actually really into and single handedly made WBD rise to the top 3 of my personally most hated companies list

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I love Final Space - never being able to watch the proper ending, because execs & profit is sad.

[–] Tazerface@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Fox is not Big Damn Heros

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 59 points 6 months ago
  • anything owned by Rupert Murdoch
  • anything owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
  • anything affiliated with Fox News Media (ref. Rupert Murdoch)

propaganda mouthpieces run by some dictator are a known factor whereas this list are trying to actively undermine the political process

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There was a video a few years back of Sinclair(?) or something that had all the networks they owned say the same thing, and it was very dystopian.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Sinclair video is expertly edited.

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure, to get them to speak in unison. They did all read from the same script though. It wouldn't be as viscerally creepy without the editing, but I would say the situation is as bad as the video makes it seem.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely, I'm only commending the effort. It can't be easy just to gather this many clips from different sources, let alone edit them like this to both highlight the problem and maintain the viewer's attention - all without saying or explaining anything. It's obvious from just watching it. It's a masterpiece.

[–] jmiller@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Oh, agreed!

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

News Corp. and The Daily Mail and General Trust seem pretty evil. (In fact, let’s just say every company that owns a UK tabloid is at least 80% evil.)

Sinclair Broadcasting in the U.S. is scum too. They own a bunch of local TV channels and also their corresponding web sites. A lot of places in the U.S. have seen their local newspaper disappear (or shrink to where it might as well have) and Sinclair filled the void and pushes right wing tabloid crap.

Local TV news in the U.S. is low key one of the worst offenders at creating false narratives. I live in a city and half my older relatives think I live in a war zone because of how local news is now structured: violent crime, a story about the moral panic du jour (like “Is your teen eating Tide Pods?”) followed by sports, traffic, and weather. I’m probably a million times more likely to be killed by a car than murdered but they only cover car accidents if it’s like, “Prom queen dies in accident.”

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 20 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I think people seriously underestimate how much disney controls western values.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Yyyyyes and no

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Only four now.

As of 2022, the largest media conglomerates in terms of revenue are Comcast NBCUniversalThe Walt Disney CompanyWarner Bros. Discovery, and Paramount Global.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No question about this here would be complete without mentioning that the reason the myth persists that lemmings commit suicide out of natural instinct is that people shooting a Disney nature documentary wanted footage of lemmings doing this and disgruntledly pushed thousands of them off a ledge when it was discovered they don't do this because it would get them that footage.

[–] Limfjorden@feddit.dk 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That sound horrible. Do you have a source?

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Google owns YouTube, so it's technically a media corporation.
I'm going with Google

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheDorkfromYork@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

If I worked at Google I 100% would have had the same policy. I thought the controversy was not grounded.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] Mango@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago
[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago
[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Fox, meta, google

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] Today@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Derp, I missed the "media" in the title... My bad Its been a morning already.

[–] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Monsanto is now fully owned by Bayer. Who are also evil

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 months ago

I immediately thought of Meta, but it's a vast tapestry of evil out there. Maybe I should aim for a Top 5 Desert Island Evil Media List. Or we could do something like a Letterman Top 10.

[–] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

CCTV. Ironic China Central Television has the same acronym as closed-circuit TV.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

They're closed-circuit, alright.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 6 months ago

Disney, Google, Amazon, I guess Meta counts.

[–] probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Disney is a stupid monopoly (they also OWN Fox)

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think Disney bought 21st century fox (the movie studio) *and the tv shows, but Fox News remains their own entity.

[–] kinsnik@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

there is a lot to criticize Disney for, but at least they are not pushing hateful and harmful content like Fox News (which is the only part of Fox that Disney doesn't own), the Sinclair Group or some state-owned media like Russia Today does

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I think I'd add Spotify for basically destroying a lot of really excellent podcasts.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Fox, Sinclair, Google and Disney are all fair choices in the thread, but every country has their local evil media companies too.In Germany Axel Springer and the Bild-Zeitung are at least in the "Also ran category" for most evil media company.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
[–] electro1@infosec.pub 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In the world ?! That's very broad... The news depend on the context so if we want to be objective about this we need to look at every country's news outlets..

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