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"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism

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"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

Even before our dim authoritarian overlords came to town, the U.S. press generally existed to prop up the interests of corporate power and the extraction class . This used to be a subject of some debate whenever academics brought it up, but at some point any pretense of subtlety evaporated. While there's still certainly good reporting peppered in the morass, consolidated U.S. media generally now functions as a direct appendage of our business interests, punching down against progressive reforms , hyper-mythologizing the rich , and operating as a glorified extension of product marketing. I thin

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