[youpassbutter]

> I think it's always strange that the media frames this as "threatening" to shift power.

Why is it strange? That's the purpose of a nation's propaganda organizations. The chinese media does the same thing. Every nation's media does it.

[csallen]

You're not supposed to call our media propaganda. That's a word that can only be used for other nations' media.

[magduf]

Our media isn't propaganda, because it doesn't fit the definition. Propaganda is slanted views that are approved or promulgated by the reigning regime in a country. The news in the US simply isn't like that: just look at how anti-Trump most of it is (not saying this is a bad thing). Propagandized media is where the news media is really nothing more than a mouthpiece for the current regime, as you see in China and Russia, and doesn't air views contradictory to that regime.

This isn't to say that our media is completely neutral. No media really is. But it doesn't represent our current government, it represents the interests of its owners, who have different interests than our current leaders, and are frequently at odds with them. And of course, we have multiple media outlets, who frequently disagree with each other, a good example being Fox News.

[2RTZZSro]

>slanted views that are approved or promulgated by the reigning regime in a country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo

[skrebbel]

If you dont want to watch: Parent is posting a video of a bunch of pro-government news reports by Sinclair, owner of many local tv stations in the US, which is known to be particularly right-wing (and, if you ask me, bigoted), much like the current administration.

To my understanding, parent's hidden suggestion is that somehow these buffoons are representative of the average American media company.

[2RTZZSro]

>which is known to be particularly right-wing

This is a baseless claim with zero evidence to support it

[skrebbel]

You're assuming @youpassbutter is American. Maybe he's calling your media propaganda.

EDIT: dear downvoters: Too often do people here on HN assume that everybody who writes comments is American. I'm going to continue calling that out because I think it has to change.

[forapurpose]

> That's the purpose of a nation's propaganda organizations. The chinese media does the same thing. Every nation's media does it.

That's simply not true. Chinese media is state-controlled and is required to promulgate their messages. U.S. media (and the media in most other free countries) are private organizations, most of which certainly do not publish what the government likes. Just ask any U.S. President, especially the current one, what they think of the news media.

But let's again have new accounts (and old ones) appear to say that China and the U.S. are the same. It gets more interesting every time I read it.