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      11 months ago

      In the 1800s news media was firmly owned by the merchants who regularly gaslit the entire population.

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          Exactly! The article OP posted is from a Financial Times, an outlet that has been publishing this kind of shit since 1888.

          Both Marx and later Lenin were dunking on the very same print media outlets still active today. We still meme about Lenin talking shit on the Economist, which today is publishing the same shit they did back in 1843.

          Fkn Marx was a newspaper columnist in New York for a few years. The New York Times is publishing the exact same shit-lib editorials and opinion peices today as it did in 1851. If you want a wild evening of reading, I suggest digging through their archives for coverage of the abolitionist movement and slavery around the time the US civil war was kicking off.