[skissane]

> major news outlets in the US tend to have pro-corporate and pro-government views, but this doesn’t make them state affiliated.

There’s a double standard here though - many of the same people who defend US media as “not state affiliated just because it has a pro-government bias” will then label Hungarian media “state-affiliated” when similarly it isn’t under direct state control, it is just owned by private interests with a pro-government bias.

[woodruffw]

Where’s the double standard? China and US are different in kind; the US and Hungary are similar in kind, but different in degree.

Many things can be bad at once, in many different ways!

[skissane]

If Hungary can have a significantly high degree of pro-government bias in its privately owned media to justify calling that media “state-affiliated”, why can’t the United States? What makes the label justifiable for a greater degree of the same kind not a lesser? Opinions differ on how great the difference in degree is.