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We have engineered GMO food so why not engineered news media? Free speech is really a mechanism to protect advertisers. As I feel myself as a sort of penned liv
by moo 12y ago
We have engineered GMO food so why not engineered news media? Free speech is really a mechanism to protect advertisers. As I feel myself as a sort of penned livestock that gets to choose between competing capitalists, all I can say is I'm off Western news media as it gives me diarrhea, but if you can consume it then more power to you.
- pluma 12y agoJust like GMO is merely a continuation of the manual engineering ("cultivation") that has been going on since the earliest days of human societies, biased media is nothing new at all, sadly. Although the Luddites would have you think it's a novel problem, news never where unbiased in the first place. Sure, good journalistic self-control can go a long way in preserving the original information, but that information in itself is biased already. There's another analogy about processed food and processed information here, but it's still a matter of where you can source what you can consume. Buying local means you'll have to abstain from foreign material, which I don't think is an option for many when it comes to news.