…gov't-funded agit-prop worked so well in the past couple of years of Covid. More gaslighting is assured, which also means more bespoke postings here ;-)
It sounds 100% like the system we've had since the 1970s or so.
Via proxies to be able to claim independence, regime-friendly media are given subsidies, and the media/entertainment sector props up the regime and vice versa.
Schibstedt, Bonniers, and state media are pretty much the sole news sources for 90% of the swedes, while most non-europeans only watch the news from their home countries anyway.
It's so bad, you get better news about events in Sweden via Berglingske, Ekstra-Bladet, Aftenposten, Hufvudstadsbladet and YLE's swedish reporting - still PC censorship but much less so.
Funnily enough, only the "alt-media" and the old communist papers that started a century or more ago report without PC censorship, and proudly wears any political bias on their lapel so to speak.
It does, but keep in mind: history rhymes, as per Mark Twain (I think).
What's changed from, say, 50 years ago is this: back then, most people were educated (ain't the same as 'attended whatever university') enough to tell shit from shinola, i.e., see through the most blatant lies and absurdities--compared to the present, surely a paradise in terms of media literacy.
I would agree with the few openly Communist-Leninist papers (here that would be 'Klassenkampen'), as in: they are the only ones that proudly wear their biases.
As for so-called 'alternative' media, I think most of them intellectually wetted themselves thoroughly in the past 2.5+ years (due to Covid), and doubled down on this stance since the beginning of the Russian military operation in/against Ukraine.
Perhaps our media 'system' is moving ever more towards open source, donation-based (like TKP), and/or Substack (or the like) sources of information. It's quite likely for the better, eh?
It'sa return to cultural norms of every free man (as in human) having an undeniable right to both make up and speak his own mind, so definitely a net positive.
Oh, it's quite the other way 'round, I'd daresay: media 'support' by government has been the norm for decades, and it wasn't that case before (to that extent) elsewhere, esp. in the Anglosphere.
Hence, I humbly submit the thesis that it's the Anglosphere that's turning more and more into 'Europe', even though that means giving up on once-cherished civil liberties.
P.S.: I wish this was satire, too, but I'm afraid it ain't (on a related note, the Vienna gov't is also paying most 'comics', hence there's little hope left that at least comedians would return to their jester roles…)
It sounds 100% like the system we've had since the 1970s or so.
Via proxies to be able to claim independence, regime-friendly media are given subsidies, and the media/entertainment sector props up the regime and vice versa.
Schibstedt, Bonniers, and state media are pretty much the sole news sources for 90% of the swedes, while most non-europeans only watch the news from their home countries anyway.
It's so bad, you get better news about events in Sweden via Berglingske, Ekstra-Bladet, Aftenposten, Hufvudstadsbladet and YLE's swedish reporting - still PC censorship but much less so.
Funnily enough, only the "alt-media" and the old communist papers that started a century or more ago report without PC censorship, and proudly wears any political bias on their lapel so to speak.
It does, but keep in mind: history rhymes, as per Mark Twain (I think).
What's changed from, say, 50 years ago is this: back then, most people were educated (ain't the same as 'attended whatever university') enough to tell shit from shinola, i.e., see through the most blatant lies and absurdities--compared to the present, surely a paradise in terms of media literacy.
I would agree with the few openly Communist-Leninist papers (here that would be 'Klassenkampen'), as in: they are the only ones that proudly wear their biases.
As for so-called 'alternative' media, I think most of them intellectually wetted themselves thoroughly in the past 2.5+ years (due to Covid), and doubled down on this stance since the beginning of the Russian military operation in/against Ukraine.
Perhaps our media 'system' is moving ever more towards open source, donation-based (like TKP), and/or Substack (or the like) sources of information. It's quite likely for the better, eh?
It'sa return to cultural norms of every free man (as in human) having an undeniable right to both make up and speak his own mind, so definitely a net positive.
Welcome to New Zealand World
Oh, it's quite the other way 'round, I'd daresay: media 'support' by government has been the norm for decades, and it wasn't that case before (to that extent) elsewhere, esp. in the Anglosphere.
Hence, I humbly submit the thesis that it's the Anglosphere that's turning more and more into 'Europe', even though that means giving up on once-cherished civil liberties.
P.S.: I wish this was satire, too, but I'm afraid it ain't (on a related note, the Vienna gov't is also paying most 'comics', hence there's little hope left that at least comedians would return to their jester roles…)