Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "Where is Kim Jong-Un?" video.

  1.  Teh Chuan  ehh, at this point in the USA (parts of) the press arguably control (parts of) the government... Not entirely intentionally. (There have been some rather hilarious stunts proving you can get Donald Trump to talk about just about Anything to the media by saying the right thing in the add space during a specific program on a particular (fox) channel.) But yeah, the US government does usually manipulate the mainstream media's reporting of political matters, though usually indirectly. Meanwhile, the New Zealand has much greater official power to meddle and just... Doesn't. Usually, anyway. Though it is a bit amusing that the two main news shows on tv (used to, at least) behave differently based on who was in power. One is state funded, on a state funded channel, so they're always Very careful what they say about the current government. Not to the point of being dishonest, so much as being Very sure of what they're saying and very polite about it, as a rule. No matter which party is currently in power. Meanwhile, the other is owned by, to the best of my knowledge, big business interests. I believe not even (entirely, at least) domestic ones. They cant afford to spin things Too much, people notice when they're too far out of alignment with the other one, but they're Always in favour of the National party (economic right, socially 'less progressive than the other guys') if there's any room to spin things that way. (They also constantly try to spin our MMP parliamentary elections as presidential races between the leaders of Labour and National... Despite the out come of most elections coming down to how many votes the centrist New Zealand First party gets, as coalition governments are pretty much required most of the time under MMP. (And which way NZ first jumps depends partially on how obnoxious the other parties were in the lead up and how cooperative they are in the aftermath. ) But yeah, the contrast between the two news programs with one major party in power vs with the other major party in power is ... Interesting.
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