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Re:It appears my Google account is slated for deletion by rphlx on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @08:53AM (#15237769)
One major problem with state-owned centralized media, in my opinion, is that objectivity usually degrades into propaganda whenever that's seriously requested by a senior government official, e.g. in times of war. IIRC the BBC was not always forthcoming about setbacks during the early parts of WWII, for example.
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Re:It appears my Google account is slated for deletion by wu-ikkyu on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @09:27AM (#15238008)
It's the same with corporate media as well:

ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program

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Re:It appears my Google account is slated for deletion by rphlx on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:34AM (#15247807)
I think there is a significant difference in extent. There are certainly many cases where US corp media lays obediently in the government's lap, but there are also some crucial cases where it was majorly non-compliant - TV coverage of the Vietnam war being possibly the most significant & influential example.
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Re:It appears my Google account is slated for deletion by wu-ikkyu on Thursday September 14, 2017 @11:51AM (#15249207)
>there are also some crucial cases where it was majorly non-compliant - TV coverage of the Vietnam war being possibly the most significant & influential example.

Indeed, though you'll notice that ever since the gory coverage of Vietnam the mainstream media censors war to a much higher degree because they learned TV audiences find the true images of war to be unbearable. Public support for war drops sharply when they see the mangled dead bodies of their own soldiers while they eat their TV dinners.

"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam."

-Marshall McLuhan

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Re:It appears my Google account is slated for deletion by crdoconnor on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:51PM (#15243062)
Non-state owned media is hardly better in this regard.
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