I disagree about the media. The media is solely a propaganda outlet. Any "news" they report is only done to keep the illusion of legitimacy. Look at CNN, if they were a legitimate news organization, they would have been out of business a long time ago. Someone is keeping it alive for when they need to deflect, deny, deceive or defend.
True that. The media is not an investment, they are a money laundering operation for the drugs and weapons business of the intelligence community and essential for propaganda. The media is not only controlled (Operation Mockingbird), they are the root of the modern intelligence community. The super rich like Cecil Rhodes, who owned whole continents, not only controlled politics through their newspaper outlets, they trained future leaders through their universities, and they founded the intelligence community because they owned the journalists all over the world and the telegraph lines to connect them.
But the loss in viewership is real, the loss of ad income is real, and that must be represented in stock prices - even if it's just a show.
The pattern is still there. Telegraph lines are now eithernet cables.
The Rhodes Scholars are also still there to rule the colonies: Bill Clinton, Susan Rice, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg - to name a few.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rhodes_Scholars
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-black-autumn-doesnt-apply-to-the-new-rhodes-scholars/
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