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Our media isn't propaganda, because it doesn't fit the definition. Propaganda is slanted views that are approved or promulgated by the reigning regime in a country. The news in the US simply isn't like that: just look at how anti-Trump most of it is (not saying this is a bad thing). Propagandized media is where the news media is really nothing more than a mouthpiece for the current regime, as you see in China and Russia, and doesn't air views contradictory to that regime.

This isn't to say that our media is completely neutral. No media really is. But it doesn't represent our current government, it represents the interests of its owners, who have different interests than our current leaders, and are frequently at odds with them. And of course, we have multiple media outlets, who frequently disagree with each other, a good example being Fox News.



>slanted views that are approved or promulgated by the reigning regime in a country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo


If you dont want to watch: Parent is posting a video of a bunch of pro-government news reports by Sinclair, owner of many local tv stations in the US, which is known to be particularly right-wing (and, if you ask me, bigoted), much like the current administration.

To my understanding, parent's hidden suggestion is that somehow these buffoons are representative of the average American media company.


>which is known to be particularly right-wing

This is a baseless claim with zero evidence to support it




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