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Yeah, no. The Overton window is so incredibly small in America that normal, run of the mill political positions - either left or right - in the rest of the worl
by SavageNoble 1y ago
Yeah, no. The Overton window is so incredibly small in America that normal, run of the mill political positions - either left or right - in the rest of the world are deemed extremist and radical in America.
Your Corporate media is the problem.
- ta1243 1y agoThings have been far more polarised since the rise of social media. You can blame fox news and cnn or whatever all you want, but given how far the US is from the days of Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, Kennedy etc I don't see how you can simply blame "corporate media".
- JKCalhoun 1y agoSocial media is the new corporate media.
- TheOtherHobbes 1y agoBoth are true. The end of the Fairness Doctrine normalised the psychotic distortions and lies pumped out by Fox. But the same machine that uses Fox also runs bot farms, astroturfing operations, and curated social media algorithms to normalise even more extreme RW POVs. And here we are.
- lesuorac 1y agoFox is a cable network. Fairness doctrine only applied to limited spectrums (Radio) not to cable.
- detourdog 1y agoCorporate media used to have regulations on how much local media any single company could own. I think the consolidation of media ownership made it easier to have a single corporate vision.
- CaptWillard 1y agoThe Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 has something to do with it. Also, a lot of what has happened goes back to the Church Committee and the fact that no meaningful reforms were made after that.
- JCattheATM 1y agoThe problem is not the people taking advantage of a vulnerability, but the vulnerability itself. That such a significant portion of the US population is so gullible and so ready to believe misinformation that aligns with their desires is the real issue.
- anon291 1y agoOn the other hand, both American parties are radical compared to the rest of the world on human rights issues such as free speech
- SavageNoble 1y agoReally? Is your speech freer than mine in Canada? Are your human Rights protected better than mine? I wonder what the rioters in LA would have to say about that?
- anon291 1y agoYou are a country that suspended bank accounts while your legal citizens were staging a protest at your capitol. The LA riots involve property destruction and interference with criminal removal. Those who are protesting peacefully and are here legally are free to continue. Some areas may be off limits while crimes are stopped. Not the same at all.
- ceejayoz 1y agoThe US is notably "freer" for some types of speech. Quite a few countries ban Nazi flags, hate speech, etc. to some extent. The EU bans direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs. The UK banned political parties from advertising on TV in 1955. In my opinion, doing so to some extent is important to preserve the rights of other parts of society, but that's not a universally held opinion by any means.
- lenerdenator 1y agoPretty sure the Murdochs are 'Strayan.
- Yizahi 1y agoThe problem is not media, at least not primarily. The problem is an ancient and not-democratic first past the post system, preventing emergence of any alternative, good or bad.
- SavageNoble 1y agoI agree with your sentiment, but Canada uses FPTP and as much as I would love to move to a proportional system, our politics is significantly less limiting than yours. Both of your major parties, and all of your corporate media are so captured by billionaires you don't even know how bad things are in your country without an external frame of reference.