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Like everywhere else in the world, once reactionary plutocrats take over the media, the country becomes ungovernable.
by viburnum 7y ago
Like everywhere else in the world, once reactionary plutocrats take over the media, the country becomes ungovernable.
- core-questions 7y agoIs there some implication here that the media was not always "taken over" by some group or other? It's a reasonable assumption that all mass media has been exploited to push people to take one path or another for the benefit of the publisher, sponsors, etc. I mean, if we're going to get into "who runs the media" conspiracy theories, well, most people know what kind of dialogue that's going to lead to. Whether there's anything at the bottom that's worth delving down to is a good question, but ultimately the solution is to decentralize the control of media by personally moving away from the consumption of mass media entirely, ideally replacing it with a balanced consumption of voices that allow us to synthesize our own conclusions.