Most US media have a self understanding as brain washing machines. Their disagreement is not about whether brains should be washed, but about the brand, smell and tint of the detergent. And don't get me started about schools.
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Replying to @DeanSHorak
Don't hold me responsible for German media and schools. They are mostly terrible, in slightly different ways.
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Replying to @Plinz
The problem is not our media. It is the inability of people to be able to distinguish news from opinion. The main culprit in this devolution is the right-wing outlets which label themselves “news”, when they are really propagandists.
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Replying to @DeanSHorak
What makes you think that this applies only to the right?
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Replying to @Plinz
Because before Fox News, news was actually “news”, and the few opinion shows (eg Crossfire) we’re clearly opinion shows - With both sides represented. When the news got it wrong, they quickly retracted or corrected their reports - That’s so with fox.
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Replying to @DeanSHorak
It seems to me that the current left subscribes to the idea that reality is a social construct, in the sense that facts are arbitrated by discourse, and thus the creation of the best reality requires taking control of the outcome of the discourse. Vox is outvoxing Fox.
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Replying to @Plinz
Fox made it acceptable. They won a legal fight to be able to broadcast lies because they classify their content as entertainment. Facts and truth are optional. Why should the left be bound to truth when the right is not.
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