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it worries me that this spot-on comment has been downvoted... government control of the media has been very well characterized by chomsky et al., among others.
by cryoshon 10y ago
it worries me that this spot-on comment has been downvoted... government control of the media has been very well characterized by chomsky et al., among others.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoIt's solid taken in isolation. The problem is the context: from his previous post, R_haterade appears to think that journalists covering homophobic oppression is "US imperialist foreign policy"--that a free and honest press should be expected to ignore human rights abuses if they're against groups he doesn't like. That makes his later, more cogent points seem like a mere smokescreen.
- R_haterade 10y agoI should perhaps be more articulate. Coverage of human rights abuses is never much more than propaganda. We do it, China does it, North Korea does it. It's the same everywhere. Now, do human rights abuses give me the warm and fuzzies? No. But when someone is trying to tell me how reprehensible a regime is because of their human rights record, I'm reduced to rolling my eyes because the agenda is never about human rights.