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Counterpoint: Sufficient media control kills a democracy because it enables you to control public sentiment and election outcomes. A democracy that yields suff
by myrmidon 10mo ago
Counterpoint: Sufficient media control kills a democracy because it enables you to control public sentiment and election outcomes.
A democracy that yields sufficient media control to (single) individuals, corporations or foreign nations is basically commiting suicide.
- dragonwriter 10mo ago> Counterpoint: Sufficient media control kills a democracy because it enables you to control public sentiment and election outcomes. That's just as true when the entity seizing control is the government, such that the entity that control public sentiment and election outcomes is the incumbent administration.
- myrmidon 10mo agoAbsolutely. A quite typical way for dictatorships to consolidate power. But the question is how much this applies, especially in most western states; there is a huge spectrum between having some government-determined regulation (or funding) for media and a single individual politician being in full control of all media content. I'd argue that Turkey/Hungary or past-Italy under Berlusconi were all much farther along that spectrum than most western nations right now, US included.
- canadiantim 10mo agoHeaven forbid that individuals in a democracy would dare influence election outcomes!
- myrmidon 10mo agoYou want individuals to have one vote, instead of half a million (by bombarding other voters with misinformation/propaganda at a modest price).