Yeah, obviously part of the problem is that Americans are not that smart. In other countries people want unbiased media because they know the value of being informed. Being caught spreading misinformation is an embarrassing affair for both the outlet and it’s viewers. Same thing applies to public media. People can see the bias and politicizing public media is a risky affair for political parties. For example the previous Polish government turned public TV into their propaganda machine and it was just one more thing people we pissed about.
In US the problem is definitely not just right-wing media. As I said in my comment, media in US is weak and biased in general. You basically have far-right outlets and corporate, right-wing outlets. The find anything left leaning you have to go to youtube and watch entertainment shows. For many years, the best news show was The Daily Show…
I also doubt it has worked so well for America in the past. It ended up where it is exactly because Americans were fed bullshit propaganda about their country for so many decades. All the media participated in this.
Many countries have media that report reliably on their governments and many countries have media spanning full political spectrum. No media is completely unbiased but there are different levels of bias and journalistic integrity. US basically doesn’t have any left leaning media outside of social media. All professional journalism in US has a pro-corporate bias. That’s why US is worse than most developed countries in this regard.
Yeah, obviously part of the problem is that Americans are not that smart. In other countries people want unbiased media because they know the value of being informed. Being caught spreading misinformation is an embarrassing affair for both the outlet and it’s viewers. Same thing applies to public media. People can see the bias and politicizing public media is a risky affair for political parties. For example the previous Polish government turned public TV into their propaganda machine and it was just one more thing people we pissed about.
In US the problem is definitely not just right-wing media. As I said in my comment, media in US is weak and biased in general. You basically have far-right outlets and corporate, right-wing outlets. The find anything left leaning you have to go to youtube and watch entertainment shows. For many years, the best news show was The Daily Show…
I also doubt it has worked so well for America in the past. It ended up where it is exactly because Americans were fed bullshit propaganda about their country for so many decades. All the media participated in this.
I’d love to hear which country you think has “unbiased media” lol
Many countries have media that report reliably on their governments and many countries have media spanning full political spectrum. No media is completely unbiased but there are different levels of bias and journalistic integrity. US basically doesn’t have any left leaning media outside of social media. All professional journalism in US has a pro-corporate bias. That’s why US is worse than most developed countries in this regard.
“Name a country.”
… Doesn’t name a country.
The Netherlands.
Czech Republic.