It makes sense to repeat it again.
Some in the US see the MSM-related issues, but there's the primary issue,
which is "concentration of media ownership", so the media is dominated by
a very small number of owners <
http://u.to/tzv1EQ> <
http://clck.ru/DE7jd>.
Other issues are mostly derivative of that.
Many notice 'groupthink', for example. While there's an element of natural
spontaneity in this phenomenon, the modern 'western' groupthink is rather
a designed thing. This is a result of purposeful editorial breeding work.
The corporate mainstream mass media is, in fact, a yet one branch of power
within the separation of powers concept. In the present day situation, you
have allowed it to be consolidated in the hands of a very small number of
corporations. This branch is disproportionately powerful against others,
and since it's non-elected, it makes your 'democracy' a joke.
The small cabal of the owners of the large media corporations can impose
their manipulation on the millions of people, - and the members of this
small power group are not only non-elected, but also non-accountable and
non-liable, - they can promote any falsehoods with impunity, as I already
explained it in another message <
http://u.to/vM32EQ>.
The non-liability for lies would be tolerable in the case of real free
press, where the 'free speech' principle allows to rich truth through sane
competition of non-liable free speakers. But due to the concentration of
media ownership you no longer have a competition of free speakers. Lone
voices of dissent are feeble and helpless against the mighty MSM machine.
The mass-media consolidation allows - in a coordinated effort - to promote
various misrepresentations with impaired sense of proportion, as well as
pure hoaxes made entirely from nothing, that brings the cattle-like mass
public into an artificial /induced neurosis according to the will of those
who are behind the media manipulation.
While the corporations that make up the MSM may be private and independent
from a formal point of view, they are actually a part of state. Not state-
sposored or state-run, but rather state-constituent. They are an important
part of your persistent non-elected government (the very fact of which had
[suddenly] been discovered recently under Deep State label).
The MSM have proved their power in the recent Trump case. Trump was elected
in spite of the media campaign against him. However, for a short time, they
managed to convert him into a well-trained circus animal, so now the agenda
of the Trump administration is very much different from what he campaigned
about and what the US voters reputedly voted for him for.
The pathetic Trump case is an important instructive example, which shows
that the real governing power in your environment is actually not what you
might have elected.
You are not (or no longer) a democracy but rather a sick cattle-like herd
manageable through jingoism, tibalism and implantation of cultist fetishes
in your weak mind. Right-wingers look especially hapless in this sense,
since they love to manifest their disgain towards 'leftist media', but when
it comes to real issues they show that they are well-indoctrinated by the
very same media. In turn, the MSM work not in a primitive but rather in
sophisticated way, and their indoctrination is multilayered, - you can
rather easily reject a surface layer but what they really indoctrinate you
about lies deeper than what you're able to notice.
The main thing you need to realize with regard to Russia and some other
nations that are unfriendly to the scum governing over you the cattle, is
that while such nations may have some issues, your political system is not
a 'model' they might want to follow. One of the reasons why it's repulsive
is what I have written above. You should not believe your minders that are
so desperate to indoctrinate you that many others are dreaming of 'western
democracy'. Those who seek to migrate into your environment do it mainly
due to economic reasons, not because they like your system or your culture
of hypocrisy. That is, inter alia, the reason why you will never be able
'to integrate' those Muslims, and not only. In turn, with the MSM-driven
cultism like the present one, you are doomed to decline, - and the present
economic vantage is a temporary and waning effect (which is pretty obvious
in the global economic trends).
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