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    is this generally understood by the general population? especially in the 3rd world countries they manipulate where the connections between local news and pupeteer empire don’t look as close and/or are deliberately obscured…

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      No, of course not. Never was, nowhere is.

      The wish for “unbiased news” grew from the aftermath of WWI, but didn’t stick with the duopoly in the US.

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        that influence extends way past the us political system.

        in a way that makes it look like the center unbiased position, when its in fact very manipulative.

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          Yeah, that’s why we even care that the US has a duopoly.


          This particular thread is largely about “that’s what they consider unbiased news for some reason”

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            and i was talking about why it is.

            and maybe why explicitly anti-imperialist and anti-us media might sound manipulative to people used to imperialism being the center and not the right. we do need the proper us bad that has been lacking.