I'm a big fan of quadrant diagrams, but they should not be misused to cram three dimensions into a two-dimensional image. Why liberal AND progressive on one axis, and what is the difference in the mind of the authors? And once they had a word pair for the "good" side, they needed another for the "bad" side, and sneaked in "authoritarian". Guess where the lockdown and compulsory vaccination maniacs are located in the image...
Propaganda works by bending perception so that we "see" what they want us to see. Is there one Western country left with more independent media? Inverted totalitarianism reigns.
I'm a big fan of quadrant diagrams, but they should not be misused to cram three dimensions into a two-dimensional image. Why liberal AND progressive on one axis, and what is the difference in the mind of the authors? And once they had a word pair for the "good" side, they needed another for the "bad" side, and sneaked in "authoritarian". Guess where the lockdown and compulsory vaccination maniacs are located in the image...
Excellent points. The paper (linked in the above post) also lacks these issues.
Moreover, the discursive issues you highlight are very well taken.
In Sweden, 85% of state journalists vote Socialist Democrat, Communist, or Green/Feminist.
And that's according to how we measure such things here - our "rightwing" parties are left of the Socialist Democrat parties of the 1980s.
Doesn't look like Sweden's an outlier, isn't it?
Propaganda works by bending perception so that we "see" what they want us to see. Is there one Western country left with more independent media? Inverted totalitarianism reigns.
Could you name one? (I cannot.)