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It would be very hard for anyone to watch most of Fox News and not see it as some form of state-controlled media in this administration. I guess my brain immed
by bananatron 8y ago
It would be very hard for anyone to watch most of Fox News and not see it as some form of state-controlled media in this administration.
I guess my brain immediately goes to the situation you describe with little/no human oversight. If the only layer of human oversight that does exist values control over truth, this is just one more layer of human intervention removed.
- eiaoa 8y ago> It would be very hard for anyone to watch most of Fox News and not see it as some form of state-controlled media in this administration. I'm glad Americans have other, independent news sources. The problem with state-controlled media is not so much that it exists, but that when it does other options are often suppressed or eliminated in its favor.
- drak0n1c 8y agoLacking evidence for state-control, the most you could deductively claim is that there is ideological alignment and existing friendships with openly partisan pundits. A more appropriate label would be cronyism. As an exercise in objective labeling - given Glenn Greenwald's reporting on the communications and friendships between Clinton staff and press outlets [1] - would all those those news outlets and non-pundit journalists immediately be considered state-controlled media had she been elected? I do not think so either. [1] https://theintercept.com/2016/10/09/exclusive-new-email-leak-reveals-clinton-campaigns-cozy-press-relationship/ https://theintercept.com/2016/10/09/exclusive-new-email-leak...
- chillacy 8y agoReally, it would be hard, when ~50% of the country probably prefers fox and thinks CNN is the biased one? Seems awfully judgmental.