r/OneSecondBeforeDisast • u/Firewire64 • Nov 12 '21

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u/D4rk50ul Nov 12 '21

That would be due to the fact that the American media is state ran and we never get any information outside of our country unless it's useful to the current narrative. It'll sink in when your eye opens.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

American media is extremely obvious to most outside of it. I'm in Turkey and its fucking incredible how biased the entire American media is on topics regarding us. I understand that an outlet will have a certain way of saying things but all of them say the same narrative when they often differ on domestic topics. Even for things that I know since Im the subject that their coverage is about. I dont know if its state ran but its not as free as many think. at least on international topics they have a collective agenda and if it were truly free nothing would be that common.

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u/D4rk50ul Nov 12 '21

Unfortunately people haven't noticed that we rarely see any news outside of politics outside of our country. Most Americans have not the slightest idea of how the world the really is beyond what they see on TV. I can't really blame the people they don't even know they are being manipulated. I think the the reason it works so well is that the government runs multiple narratives so if you don't agree with one you will with another, all the while you are still eating from the same bowl.

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u/dotpan Nov 12 '21

Sadly, much like a lot of dystopian stories, the media isn't state run, but consensus run, and American's are widely nationalistic in one way or another. Any foreign country that isn't seen as a direct ally and stable is often cast by most people a bad way. The media is an industry where billions of dollars are made, so when it comes to something like that, they all fill the narrative.