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by Brian Peacock » Sat Apr 09, 2022 2:42 pm
If you're going to quote someone's comments at least try and make your own response relevant. I understand that you think what you called the US corporate media is biased. I think they are too. The vast majority of the US get their news, along with their political analysis, from commercial organisations with real skin in the game. However, I don't think the corporate end of those organisations are fundamentally or necessarily ideologically biased in favour of one political outfit or another, because it's clear that their presumed allegiances can, have, and do swing to wherever it suits them best - the status quo. Those who are not corporate media giants but merely aspire to being big hitters, have to fight for market share in an over-crowded marked. They too also have skin in the game in undermining their bigger, harder rivals.
It seems to me that there's a serious issue clouding the waters here, and that's the framing of the US corporate media as being divided between a Democrat vs Republican, Left vs Right media. For one, Democrats, being conservatives, are basically for the status quo. They are not lefties and nobody really associates them with wanting to overthrow capitalism, get rid of landlords, place factories in the hands of their workers, make everybody work on collective farms, etc. So that's the first problem, the issue of media biased being framed around assumptions that the Democrats are lefties who want to take your stuff and collectivise your granny. For two, while people are being continually primed to squabble over each other's consumer preferences, on the basis of whose media is the best/worse, honest/dishonest, biased/unbiased, moral/immoral, patriotic/unpatriotic, Democrat/Republican, blah/blah, the corporate sector continues to rake it in as usual and exert their influence without serious challenge - the status quo.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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