Re:All around the world, nationalists are gaining ground. Why?
by YZF on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:22PM
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In my experience I've been on both sides at times. Sometimes the news is telling me things I don't like to hear or I think are biased. I realize the media is incentivized and opinionated and I live with that. I don't plug my ears. I also don't see it as some sort of conspiracy.
In this day and age every person at their computer have a microphone and a keyboard and potentially an audience. For good or bad. You can have any discussion you like.
Reminds me of this interview with Julian Assange a few days before the elections (in "mainstream media") where he said the "powers, bankers etc." would never let Trump win so Trump would lose. I'd like to hear his comments on that not happening. But maybe he can be forgiven for being paranoid since people are actually after him for real.
No, they weren't able to "make" opinions in that way. They sure were able to make more than 50% of the opinions aired on radio, TV, and in print though...
The people with the microphones control the discussion. It can happen that at least half the country plugs their ears and stops listening. But it still is very difficult to have a different discussion from the one that the people with the microphones want to have.