Re:Volkswagen and the Blame the Engineer Game
by jsprogrammer on Friday December 11, 2015 @04:06PM
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>Can you say with certainty that the US government is not controlled by the media corporations either?
With certainty? No.
US Government is a collection of individuals theoretically bound by a (very-large) shared text, or program, if you will. Do media corporations have some measure of influence on some of those individuals? Undoubtedly.
I am fairly certain that the individuals who make up the US Government are not all on media corporation payrolls.
>Judging by the political "activism" regularly displayed by Fox and CNN, I think it's fair to say that the media exerts a lot of control over the executive and legislative branches.
This makes sense. US Government is structured such that it arises from the people it is governing. If that structure is to be used, it requires public communication (ie. media).
Re:Volkswagen and the Blame the Engineer Game
by jacquesm on Friday December 11, 2015 @12:55PM
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Undoubtedly there are ties. But you'd have to extrapolate to all media in all countries being in on this for this purpose. The VW scandal has been published widely outside the US. Even if the US government had simply fined VW and left it at that the thing would have been newsworthy.
For two entities to be independent, there needs to be little control in both directions.