Re:Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April
by electricblue on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @05:25PM
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The US isn't run by an autocracy so there are competing interests in the government. It doesn't make sense to claim they are being controlled by the government, because they wouldn't agree with each other on what should be said. That said, there's definitely an implicit bias that America is right and North Korea/Iran/Russia etc are wrong but that's a nationwide problem, hardly evidence of some mass conspiracy.
Re:Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April
by rdancer on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @09:21PM
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You're replying to a comment that links to an article on the domestic PsyOps program run by the DoD, officially, since shortly after 9/11. The issue is not that people are patriotic. It is not even that political dissent is not tolerated in mainstream media. It is that propaganda pieces, manufactured with the expressed purpose to manipulate the electorate, are broadcast.
It's not like there is a party line on everything. You are allowed to have differing opinions on benign issues, such as cooking, celebrities, or football.
Yes.
Additionally I didn't say Obama was running anything, I was more thinking the DoD. They likely fund, produce, or have produced specific bottled segments.
Which isn't to say they have direct editorial control, just that propaganda is a common sight on US TVs.
Plus I can back up what I am saying, here's a program from 2002:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_military_analyst_prog...
So from 2002 to 2008 I can prove that this occurred. But since then it has definitely continued, I'm sure they renamed it, and retooled it, and involved more private entities to act as legal buffs, but it definitely still goes on to this day.
> How would this even work. Do they switch stories depending on who is in power?
I don't understand the question.