While I agree, the issue we’re having with " by people realizing one source is corrupt and switching to another." Is that people aren’t agreeing with what their propagandists of choice say and therefore leave for those that do say what they want to hear. (See: Fox & Newsmax.) So that check doesn’t work as it would in theory. Those people just want to hear that they have all the answers and that their thoughts were correct.
Then there are those with no option as well, what news sources are out there that don’t cater almost exclusively to the 1%? Those of us far enough on the left don’t follow any of the corporate media as they are exactly what the meme is discussing.
If you’re a “centrist” that is totally ok with the status quo then current day corporate media ecosystem works just fine for you. All that said, I don’t disagree that removing freedom of the press just leaves the government to fill the gap and no one should want that.
If people want propaganda there’s literally nothing that could stop that.
Sure, every major news outlet is biased, but people can read what a variety of outlets have to say and synthesis the truth from that (there was an AI that did that a while back that was pretty cool) or people could much smaller sources (even one person) that’s good at research that they somewhat trust and get their news there. The important thing is just that the government doesn’t interfere and everyone’s free to say whatever they want.
I don’t like that news sources are corrupt, but they have so much power and influence that someone’s going to figure out a way to bribe them no matter what.
While I agree, the issue we’re having with " by people realizing one source is corrupt and switching to another." Is that people aren’t agreeing with what their propagandists of choice say and therefore leave for those that do say what they want to hear. (See: Fox & Newsmax.) So that check doesn’t work as it would in theory. Those people just want to hear that they have all the answers and that their thoughts were correct.
Then there are those with no option as well, what news sources are out there that don’t cater almost exclusively to the 1%? Those of us far enough on the left don’t follow any of the corporate media as they are exactly what the meme is discussing.
If you’re a “centrist” that is totally ok with the status quo then current day corporate media ecosystem works just fine for you. All that said, I don’t disagree that removing freedom of the press just leaves the government to fill the gap and no one should want that.
I guess I can’t imagine a better system.
If people want propaganda there’s literally nothing that could stop that.
Sure, every major news outlet is biased, but people can read what a variety of outlets have to say and synthesis the truth from that (there was an AI that did that a while back that was pretty cool) or people could much smaller sources (even one person) that’s good at research that they somewhat trust and get their news there. The important thing is just that the government doesn’t interfere and everyone’s free to say whatever they want.
I don’t like that news sources are corrupt, but they have so much power and influence that someone’s going to figure out a way to bribe them no matter what.