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Originally Posted by darthfanta
True democracy=dictatorship of the majority. 51% of the population can condemn 49% of the population to death if they want.
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First, I don't even know what this "true democracy" is, since there are more than one forms of democracy. And there is proportional representation system.
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Originally Posted by willx
@Conspiracy Theorist(s) --
I'm quite confused about this whole idea that mass media is controlled by "The Man"
Did Watergate never happen? Did, not after the initial skepticism, the media not do stories on Monica Lewinski? Was Al Gore not shown to be sighing disgustedly during the debates with Bush Jr.? Did the Bushisms not get aired? Just because the media has conflicting desires with regards to profit doesn't mean it's necessarily under the thumb of the government as much as you or anyone think it is. It's funny cause I hear this from EVERYONE.
General Population -- "The media just tells us what those in power want us to hear!"
Right Wingers / GOP -- "The media is totally all for Obama! That moderator was a crook!"
Left Wingers / Dems -- "Fox news is evil! Too much of the media is controlled by the rich elite!"
Again, the news and media isn't perfect, there are conflicting and profit motives involved and no one is ever 100% unbiased.. But it's like a statistical sample .. Enough lean in opposite directions and some international sources are bulletproof enough that in the aggregate there's value there.
Remember (again): Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity
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True, but I think most people feel that the media has been getting worse in last few years. At this point so many of the media are focused on ratings too much that they are trying forgetting to tell the truth and inform actual issues. I would actually like to see all mass media becoming non-profit organizations. In that case there would be no motivation for profits, instead only motivations for actual journalism.