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CBS wellness bro Peter Attia appears in the Epstein files, joking about Epstein's "outrageous" life that Attia couldn't tell anyone about

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[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

There will be a point, where it will be easier to point out rich fucks who are not in the files.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

Parenti addressed CBS (and all US media) by talking about Cronkite retirement statement, if anyone could be bothered to seek out voices that disagree with their comfortable narratives.

https://www.michael-parenti.org/book-inventing-reality

Contents:

Contents:

From Cronkite’s Complaint to Orwell’s Oversight

“Freedom of the Press Belongs to the Man Who Owns One”

Who Controls the News?

Objectivity and Government Manipulation

The Big Sell

Giving Labor the Business

“Liberal” Media, Conservative Bias

The Media Fights the Red Menace

Doing the Third World

For the New World Order

Propaganda Themes

Methods of Misrepresentation

Culture, Control and Resistance