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For Journalists Who've Worked in China, New White House Tactics Seem Familiar
- jstewartmobile 10y agoFeudalism is the new black.
- sbmassey 10y agoI don't get the analogy - as I understand it, Feudalism is about subletting military/political power because the central government is too weak to control things directly, which doesn't seem to have much in common with the allegations of media abuse in the article
- jstewartmobile 10y agoIf we're getting into the things textbooks tell us, our government serves by the will of the people. Top-down media control doesn't really jive with this. If we go by the Bloch definition of the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry bound by manorialism, swap each out with a modern-day group (military-industrial complex [of which SV is an offshoot], clergy, media/entertainment, and the general public), and you can still make out the same old constellation.
- anon987 10y agoWish you assholes would stop posting this political garbage. Need another ban on politics.
- sctb 10y agoThere isn't a submission for which a reply like this is acceptable. Please (quietly) flag stories that you feel don't belong on HN.