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When you have a revolving door from the intelligence agencies into the news commentariat, along with speech writers/communications staff for politicians, I thin
by aksss 6y ago
When you have a revolving door from the intelligence agencies into the news commentariat, along with speech writers/communications staff for politicians, I think that it's safe to eye "The News" as being at best an unwitting tool of state propaganda, if not an open-eyed broker/distributor of it. I could maybe cut them some slack for eagerly and uncritically repeating the feeds from "unnamed intelligence sources", but when you're paying the nominally "retired" members of the community to help craft the narrative, it's hard to view them as "mostly credible".
- jariel 6y agoIt is completely false to suggest that 'political speech writers' and some influence of 'narrative' by state bureaucracies entirely discredits the free press. 'The problem with the press' are their own internal narratives and biases, not any external influence. The press are generally free to report on what they see, and they do that. It's their opinion that gets in the way. And ironically, if there are bits they're afraid to report it's definitely not political, it's corporate, for fear of losing advertising revenue.