And I would say that you are naive. Do you think the press is performing this vital function just from the goodness of their heart? You must be a much better person than I if you have that much faith in human nature. I know what human nature is like just by looking at myself.dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 12:33 pmAre you saying other people can't see through it the way you can?stuper1 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:30 am The press are the tools of big business. I really don't understand how you can't see that the press are the enemy of the people. If force-feeding us propaganda lies doesn't make them our enemy, then I don't know what would. I am not speaking sarcastically, ironically, metaphorically, or anything other than just purely seriously.
It's not as cut and dried as you're making it out to be.
The press comes in many different forms. Without it, we are screwed. Look at nations that don't have a free press. Sure there's an influence from big business. The most glaring example is The Washington Post being wholly owned by Bezos. (I like the WP, though). In Italy, much of the press is controlled by Berlusconi. Some of the corruption charges you may have heard about Netanyahu include his trying to bribe the press to give him favorable coverage. The world is not perfect, but the press is vital. Vital I say!
@moda: yep.
To be fair, I think a lot of the press propaganda is not done deliberately by the actual writer but is the result of psychological manipulation upon the journalist. For example, a young journalist writes a sob story about children being held in cages at the border, because they truly feel bad for those children. The publisher chooses to prominently use the story because he/she knows it will please his/her corporate masters who want open borders. This is a very simplistic example. Of course, they never tell us that those "cages" are just regular chain-link fencing, that Obama did substantially the same thing, and that the real blame lies with the illegal immigrant parents for bringing their children into that situation in the first place.