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"The Pegida participants were very willing to talk to him. They said that western media is all corrupt and unfree, and that Russia Today is a "welcome" and more

"The Pegida participants were very willing to talk to him. They said that western media is all corrupt and unfree, and that Russia Today is a "welcome" and more honest alternative." And how are any of the the above concerns baseless? Media cartels, whether Western or otherwise, are organized in a hierarchy, wherein editors review and cull the content of their subordinate journalists. Such an arrangement results in a militaristic concentration of power which can be exploited to control discourse locally, regionally, nationally, or, globally. Frankly---and this may ruffle some feathers here---rather than questioning the Putin régime’s influence on Russian media, the West should be collectively asking why Israel-partisan Jews have such disproportionate influence in Western media. If Germans who are concerned with the effects of mass migration are being targeted for satire by Western media, why isn't Israel receiving the same biting criticism for recently sterilizing and deporting its black population? Why can some peoples express their national concerns democratically without being painted as pariahs, while other peoples are mocked and ridiculed by an self-titled "impartial" media. Many here spare themselves exposure to the hypocrisies of Western/global media by directing their free time toward coding. Personally, the parade of Jewish "experts" who harangued the West's airwaves over the necessary WMD war in Iraq long ago convinced me of the corrupt nature of Western, and possibly, every organized media.

bayesianhorse 12y ago
If you say stupid things, then that is your right. But if I then say that I think you are stupid, that is also my right. What you don't seem to understand is that our media is "controlled" by a free market. There are tons of online magazines which share your world view. The audience can choose these outlets. If news media with these world views were popular enough, they would get their own TV channels, and the money from advertising and subscription would enable them to reach even more people. But they suck. The vast majority disagrees with their views, "logic" and "solutions". That's why they are called "fringe" media.
- kingmanaz 12y ago
  >What you don't seem to understand is that our media is "controlled" by a free market. What you don't seem to understand is that you're arguing against yourself. On one hand you decry the increasingly mainstream "Russia Today"'s alleged partiality. On the other hand, you use an appeal to economics to dismiss Western media's pro-Israel partiality. In other words, the manipulation of discourse by Israel-partisan Jews is excused via free market economics, yet, Russia's national media outlet---created by way of the market with Russia's wealth---is dismissed via appeals to ethics... ethics which Western media itself fails to practice. Gentile-controlled media outlets such as Al Jazeera and Russia Today can no longer be dismissed as "fringe". Indeed, the West may be just one more WMD-war away from a widespread loss of trust in Western, Israel-first media.

bayesianhorse 12y ago

If you say stupid things, then that is your right. But if I then say that I think you are stupid, that is also my right. What you don't seem to understand is that our media is "controlled" by a free market. There are tons of online magazines which share your world view. The audience can choose these outlets. If news media with these world views were popular enough, they would get their own TV channels, and the money from advertising and subscription would enable them to reach even more people. But they suck. The vast majority disagrees with their views, "logic" and "solutions". That's why they are called "fringe" media.

kingmanaz 12y ago
>What you don't seem to understand is that our media is "controlled" by a free market. What you don't seem to understand is that you're arguing against yourself. On one hand you decry the increasingly mainstream "Russia Today"'s alleged partiality. On the other hand, you use an appeal to economics to dismiss Western media's pro-Israel partiality. In other words, the manipulation of discourse by Israel-partisan Jews is excused via free market economics, yet, Russia's national media outlet---created by way of the market with Russia's wealth---is dismissed via appeals to ethics... ethics which Western media itself fails to practice. Gentile-controlled media outlets such as Al Jazeera and Russia Today can no longer be dismissed as "fringe". Indeed, the West may be just one more WMD-war away from a widespread loss of trust in Western, Israel-first media.