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Given your premise that American media is reporting Chinese Economic Slowdowns more widely than other country's media, there are two options: 1. Conspiracy - T
by _dark_matter_ 8y ago
Given your premise that American media is reporting Chinese Economic Slowdowns more widely than other country's media, there are two options:
1. Conspiracy - They are working together, and perhaps with the government and other private entities, to sow a particular narrative
2. Profit - Their audiences are particularly interested in these stories, given the e.g. aforementioned trade war
I'll leave it to the reader to decide which of these it might _actually_ be.
- crazynick4 8y agoDo these necessarily have to be exclusive? The CIA is known to have made organized attempts to influence the media in the past. Virtually every government does this, it seems implausible to me that we (the US) would be the only ones with 'objective' reporting. Of course you simply have to namedrop the term 'conspiracy' to get a knee-jerk reaction and have everyone lean in the opposite direction of what is otherwise a relatively reasonable option.
- tehduder9 8y agook..
- contingencies 8y agoAnother respondent suggested: 3. Bubble chamber effect. I'll leave it to you to determine whether your false dichotomy is therefore on the rocks.