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Osita Nwanevu@ositanwanevu.bsky.social |
Mirrors The New Yorker's profile of Mark Burnett. We can talk ourselves blue about Fox News and Facebook, but "Donald Trump, the competent, intelligent, and successful businessman you should listen to" is largely the invention of the ostensibly liberal entertainment industry & NBC, specifically.
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soundgood2
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You can blame the entertainment industry for creating the myth of the good guy gun toting vigilante, the happy housewife and the idyllic small town America too.
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"Captain" "Ruck" "Cohlchez"
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Jeff Zucker both greenlit The Apprentice and was running CNN in 2016. Maybe the single person most responsible for Trump's media coverage and image as a savvy businessman
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mexicanrag
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Some people may remember Ford’s failed utopian experiment in South America and scoff, but we have to admit: he straddles the century like a Colossus.
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Amateur Expert Opinions
@amateurexpertop.bsky.social
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Lorne Michaels, particularly, has much to answer for
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brianjay
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i never watched that show, but it always just seemed so silly. unbelievable to me that people watched that and were impressed. but that's the power of just being on tv (and marketing/production), i guess.
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Blurry Cat Face
@therealbcf.bsky.social
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Watching Jimmy Fallon playfully tousle Trump's hair at a time when he was entrenched in scandal leading up to the election was so surreal. It was so clearly produced.
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John Castiglione
@johncastiglione.bsky.social
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And Vince McMahon (a longtime biz partner with NBC), currently fighting a viciously disgusting sex trafficking suit.
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scott dagostino
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Not to mention his appearances on Jimmy Fallon and SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE to promote the show. NBC has a lot to answer for.
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HudsonRiverCroc
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Counterpoint: Big, liberal, MSM, is conservative and likes to pretend they’re liberal
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CNY Big D
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They don't care about anything but money; so many complict. Took years to get rid of Laer.
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bonziprincebuddy
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This is why, today, even below-the-line crew are made to sign NDAs that supposedly extend in *perpetuity* or else there'd be thousands of stories like this
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Marley Jay, a Werewolf of Wall Street
@marleywrites.bsky.social
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Much of the credit goes directly to Jeff Zucker (head of NBC, then the head of CNN from 2013-22).
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Rachel Larris
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Been reading the Hunger Games prequel. Well worth the comparison between Dr. Gaul and Burnett. There’s something deep about people who create the culture and hate humanity
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David Loner
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I've been ruminating on this idea a lot lately: the slow death of television/print media has made the political actor Donald Trump inevitable.
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The J. Cobb
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Equal parts CNN and NBC. CNN gave candidate Trump millions of free hours to campaign in the lead up to 2016.
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jody
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How are people still stomaching SNL, by the way? I’m so forgiving but failed second chance at second chances and then some
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