Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "Nationalize the News Media to Save Democracy" video.

  1. The caller has thought long and hard about what he is saying. He understands both the oligarchs’ “left” party (Democratic Party) avoids the real issues and continues their insincere pledges to the minorities to redirect the peoples’ attention from the core issues. The oligarchs’ Republican Party, on the other hand, doesn’t have to run this scam as it works directly for its constituents. In fact, its constituents are it benefactors unlike the Democratic Party where the Democrats constituents and its benefactors sit on different sides of the wealth divide. Where I would start to disagree with the caller is on nationalizing the media. Nationalizing the media is an excellent idea when the government works for the people, but when the government is now run by the oligarchs, there would be little difference in the content. The oligarchs would pump as much propaganda through their government media outlet as they would through their corporate media outlet. The system has degraded too far for this strategy to work. Just look at the BBC in the UK. The City of London uses the government media to lie to the British people about the Iraq War; they use the BBC to smear Corbyn saying he is an anti-Semite or a Hungarian spy or a Puppet of Putin and you should expect a much more intense attack as the next election approaches and Corbyn's rating in the polls grows. Admittedly, the BBC isn't as obviously propagandistic and obtuse as the print media in the UK, but sometimes that subtlety does much more damage when manipulating the majority. When propaganda is obvious, it can be detected and avoided by the people; when it is subtle, many more may accept the lies.
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