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What is the point of this? This is useless at best and dangerous at worst. I guess nobody from Facebook has ever read Manufacturing Consent... In many countrie

What is the point of this? This is useless at best and dangerous at worst. I guess nobody from Facebook has ever read Manufacturing Consent... In many countries, the state media is more accurate and less partisan than the corporate media. Australia and the US are both good examples of this.

dbbk 6y ago
What state media does the US have?
- gdhbcc 6y ago
  NPR for internal consumption, voice of X for external
  - jjeaff 6y ago
    NPR is not state funded or controlled. They receive a tiny amount from grants from organizations that are federally funded amounting to around 2% of their budget. Probably a lot less than some of these large private media corps get in subsidies and tax breaks on both state and federal levels.
    - millsmob 6y ago
      This is an interesting point and one could make the argument (based on these subsidies and tax breaks) that all corporate media in the US is a form of state media. The key difference between US corporate media and state media in other countries being: * In other countries: the government controls the state media outlets. * In the United States: the corporate media outlets control the government.
- millsmob 6y ago
  "PBS has more than 350 member television stations, many owned by educational institutions, nonprofit groups both independent or affiliated with one particular local public school district or collegiate educational institution, or entities owned by or related to state government." (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS) "Funding for public television comes in roughly equal parts from government (at all levels) and the private sector." (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadca...) "Typically, NPR member stations receive funds through on-air pledge drives, corporate underwriting, state and local governments, educational institutions, and the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)." (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR) "Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S. multimedia agency which serves as the United States government institution for non-military, external broadcasting. It is the largest U.S. international broadcaster." (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America)

dbbk 6y ago

What state media does the US have?

gdhbcc 6y ago
NPR for internal consumption, voice of X for external
- jjeaff 6y ago
  NPR is not state funded or controlled. They receive a tiny amount from grants from organizations that are federally funded amounting to around 2% of their budget. Probably a lot less than some of these large private media corps get in subsidies and tax breaks on both state and federal levels.
  - millsmob 6y ago
    This is an interesting point and one could make the argument (based on these subsidies and tax breaks) that all corporate media in the US is a form of state media. The key difference between US corporate media and state media in other countries being: * In other countries: the government controls the state media outlets. * In the United States: the corporate media outlets control the government.
millsmob 6y ago
"PBS has more than 350 member television stations, many owned by educational institutions, nonprofit groups both independent or affiliated with one particular local public school district or collegiate educational institution, or entities owned by or related to state government." (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS) "Funding for public television comes in roughly equal parts from government (at all levels) and the private sector." (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadca...) "Typically, NPR member stations receive funds through on-air pledge drives, corporate underwriting, state and local governments, educational institutions, and the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)." (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR) "Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S. multimedia agency which serves as the United States government institution for non-military, external broadcasting. It is the largest U.S. international broadcaster." (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America)