I feel so validated by this. The root cause of this though is capitalism.
But yeah we also need stricter laws about corporate speech and ownership and how to protect the public from these kind of schemes.
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If only we had some kind of Doctrine which mandated that broadcast media must give equal time to opposite sides of an issue for the sake of Fairness. We could call it "The Equality Mandate", or something like that.
government can control broadcasts because airwaves are public property, youtube is private, cable is private, facebook is private, etc, fairness doctrine was destined to become irrelevant (short of nationalizing facebook or big investment into public internet access, which, you know, good, but require at least mild progressives to win elections)
I'm not saying you don't have a point, but Fox is still the primary news source for a huge chunk of the population.
If only things given by the state couldn’t be taken away by the state.
The neat thing about the state in a democracy is that it's just us. The not so neat thing about the state being just us is that a lot of us are high key kinda dumb, and a good portion of the rest are apathetic.
That would be wonderful if it were true.
The state is the collection of the most rich and powerful, exerting their control over the people. No where is a real democracy, where people rule directly. It’s always the rich and powerful with the influence, while we beg for scraps.
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People are the problem.
You can point all this out yet they will still go oh well, they will agree you…then go and hoover it up.
There may be a tipping point but honestly it ain’t close.
What media is going to report on a media takeover? They are preparing for the midterms to try and force voters to choose the option that leads to a fascist dictatorship run by the corporate oligarchs. It's very clear but I've long given up on the average person's capacity to see the realities they live in and let it motive them to group up and attempt the end boss raid that needs to happen.
I'd agree more if his second example wasn't something that was blatantly true, regardless of whether the right-wing infosphere happens to push it.
Everyone involved is corrupt. The leadership of both parties forsook red and blue years ago, the only color they recognize is green.
Thats funny, because every one I talk to or have seen talking about the subject has no problem pointing out the right wings obsessions, and their use of media, both social and televised, both owned and subjugated, in furthering these propagandist, hysteria fueling claims.
It's the other way around. Right wing media got popular because people reacted against the rapid devolution of mainstream and left wing political discourse and sought other media. But I've accepted that people like this will live and die without ever understanding this.