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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by guerrilla on Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:45PM (#28269952)
Micromanging is not necessary. They just set the tone and don't hire people who would write anything opposed to their policy [1] which they rarely need to explicitly convey, although they do at times of course. People write things that they really like get rewarded.

"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky explains how this work with a very large number of examples.

1. https://youtu.be/9RPKH6BVcoM

2. https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econo...

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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by throwaway0a5e on Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:53PM (#28270019)
Exactly.

Internet commenters love to think their enemy's minions are stupid.

In reality they're just as smart as you are and don't need to be specifically told what the people in charge do and don't want published and/or what tone they should take.

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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by CrazyPyroLinux on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:18AM (#28272301)
Just imagine if academia were like this...
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