A TU Dortmund study reveals massively outsized party leanings/affiliation of German journalists, thereby showing the far-leftist bias in ways hitherto obscured
You can replace "Germany" and "Germans" with "Swedes" or "Norwegians" resp. and it works just as well. Almost the same numbers too, and all for the same reasons.
I expect the reaction from the German state and their adjacent hagiographists in the media will be the exact same too.
It is all the same across the Western Empire which brings us to the essential truth - the media primarily serves imperial interests. Journalists everywhere have a “left” leaning and Empire deftly uses this to advance other BS agendas, designed to divide and confuse us. If journalists were drawn primarily from the “right”, Empire would find a way to use them to advance the imperial agenda in sync with the their political affinitties.
The only way this situation can change is if the people ignore the imperial propaganda and begin to act in their own self-interest, which invariably means they act against their present rulers, who are nothing more than willing imperial servants. Western Empire has successfully institutionalized supra-national organizations (NATO, EU,…) and has taken over each country’s spooks. While countries may retain outward looking democratic structures, our reality is that we are ruled by Empire directly through deep state structures and bureaucracies. Politicians are mostly bought, blackmailed or otherwise compromised. They no longer represent us. Just like media, they serve the Empire, often times without knowing at all. You correctly labeled this Western Totalitarianism, what Sheldon Wolin labeled inverted totalitarianism in which there are no mustachioed dictators. The System itself becomes totalitarian run by Operating System architected by imperial servants.
We already live under this totalitarian regime, which sadly, of which most of us are utterly unaware. We know our situation is shitty but we don’t know why and we don’t seem to identify the “enemy". Empire is clever, but highly unstable. All that is required to come crumbling down is a critical mass of people capable of opening their eyes. That is why Empire use media (Ministry of Truth) to keep us in perpetual blindness.
That is why I wrote about 'Western totalitarianism', whose breakthrough we may actually identify as coming about in WW1, but it was a shaky 'victory'. If I had to pin-point a moment in time, I'd go for 1933--FDR and Hitler came to power, the US recognised the USSR, and most Western media began to spread lies about the Soviet campaign of extermination via starvation against the Ukrainians known as the Holodomor.
Since then, reporting 'neutral' facts hasn't stopped, but they are increasingly swamped by disinformation from all sides, something that has never ceased since.
Same thing here in Denmark where around 80% of Activists from the Disinformation Factories™ oh wait... "journalists" from the media (most media here are state sponsored via government grants called "mediestøtte") are left wing...
You can replace "Germany" and "Germans" with "Swedes" or "Norwegians" resp. and it works just as well. Almost the same numbers too, and all for the same reasons.
I expect the reaction from the German state and their adjacent hagiographists in the media will be the exact same too.
I don't doubt this for even a split-second.
There's also no solution to it, other than perhaps individuals deciding what to trust and what not to.
It is all the same across the Western Empire which brings us to the essential truth - the media primarily serves imperial interests. Journalists everywhere have a “left” leaning and Empire deftly uses this to advance other BS agendas, designed to divide and confuse us. If journalists were drawn primarily from the “right”, Empire would find a way to use them to advance the imperial agenda in sync with the their political affinitties.
The only way this situation can change is if the people ignore the imperial propaganda and begin to act in their own self-interest, which invariably means they act against their present rulers, who are nothing more than willing imperial servants. Western Empire has successfully institutionalized supra-national organizations (NATO, EU,…) and has taken over each country’s spooks. While countries may retain outward looking democratic structures, our reality is that we are ruled by Empire directly through deep state structures and bureaucracies. Politicians are mostly bought, blackmailed or otherwise compromised. They no longer represent us. Just like media, they serve the Empire, often times without knowing at all. You correctly labeled this Western Totalitarianism, what Sheldon Wolin labeled inverted totalitarianism in which there are no mustachioed dictators. The System itself becomes totalitarian run by Operating System architected by imperial servants.
We already live under this totalitarian regime, which sadly, of which most of us are utterly unaware. We know our situation is shitty but we don’t know why and we don’t seem to identify the “enemy". Empire is clever, but highly unstable. All that is required to come crumbling down is a critical mass of people capable of opening their eyes. That is why Empire use media (Ministry of Truth) to keep us in perpetual blindness.
That is why I wrote about 'Western totalitarianism', whose breakthrough we may actually identify as coming about in WW1, but it was a shaky 'victory'. If I had to pin-point a moment in time, I'd go for 1933--FDR and Hitler came to power, the US recognised the USSR, and most Western media began to spread lies about the Soviet campaign of extermination via starvation against the Ukrainians known as the Holodomor.
Since then, reporting 'neutral' facts hasn't stopped, but they are increasingly swamped by disinformation from all sides, something that has never ceased since.
Same thing here in Denmark where around 80% of Activists from the Disinformation Factories™ oh wait... "journalists" from the media (most media here are state sponsored via government grants called "mediestøtte") are left wing...
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/80-procent-af-danske-journalister-stemmer-paa-r-s-sf-og-oe
https://denkorteavis.dk/2016/ny-dokumentation-afslorer-hvor-venstreorienterede-danske-journalister-er/