4 ms·
> a prominent news anchor reviewed the coming events as if they were part of a film script, musing on how best to entertain the audience and questioning who tha
by fragsworth 12y ago
> a prominent news anchor reviewed the coming events as if they were part of a film script, musing on how best to entertain the audience and questioning who that week’s enemy should be.
Having avoided traditional American news sources for a long time (10+ years), whenever I get a glimpse of it now (especially cable news sources), I always got the sense that this is exactly how American news is produced.
- rational-future 12y agoRussia is a small country (as population and industry) compared to US and EU. It cant afford to reinvent the way a modern society, government, media, etc. works. The state propaganda machine is a direct copy of what the US and especially the UK governments have built.
- icebraining 12y agoI find it funny how you're trying to defend RT and Russia (which is fine), but managed to make the most damning criticism of the whole thread :) Poor Russia, the first country to put a man in space, now reduced to copying propaganda machines!
- rational-future 12y agoI'm not trying to defend anyone. Russia is as evil as the US, it just doesn't have enough hardware to do as much damage. The man in space flew on a rocket initially designed in Nazi Germany.
- maxxxcohen 12y agoYou sound like such a racist..
- jackweirdy 12y agoTroll accounts on HN too now? (Check the twitter account on the profile page)
- chucksmart 12y agoSoviet Union !== Russia
- icebraining 12y agoFair enough, though I'm not sure everyone in the Russian upper echelons is completely convinced of that :)
- bayesianhorse 12y ago"State propaganda machine" presupposes state control of all media outlets. Which is true for Russia, but is not true in any western country. If you don't believe me, just google what different TV channels or online magazines said about obama care. Some praised it to the high heavens, others made it out to be the antichrist. If Obama really controlled all "his" media, that should have gone a lot better...
- rational-future 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_the_United_States
- bayesianhorse 12y agoAnd where does it say that the US government has complete control over all media? At least in the last few decades? Any public actor will try to shape the narrative about him and his actions. But this is completely different than excluding any contradicting information. The propaganda "machines" in Nazi-Germany, soviet union, and today in Russia or North Korea differ in one important point from western media reporting: The government's narrative is the only narrative.
- klenwell 12y agoSurprisingly, the most thought-provoking film I saw last year may have been Nightcrawler. I knew the outlines of the film's subject going in: the sensationalization of the news, the woeful deterioration of local news standards, not to mention the unannounced insertion of pre-packaged or paid segments (not really covered in the film). The content was undoubtedly exaggerated for dramatic effect to some extent, though I suspect the news production scenes were among the more documentary aspects of the film. Amazingly, they cast real Los Angeles local news anchors in the film (who happily consented to be in it!) I'm also a consumer of what I would call serious, non-mainstream news sources: NPR, New York Times, Hacker News. But next time I was at the gym and caught the local news on one of the hanging big screen tvs, I saw it in a completely different light. Just as the film depicted. It's not propaganda in the way described here. But I found it pretty shocking and unsettling.