Establishment media is making the case for mandatory service, quietly cultivating public consent for a more heavily-armed society
Establishment media is making the case for mandatory service, quietly cultivating public consent for a more heavily-armed society
Advocacy journalism is popular for a reason. When average corporate media tries to find middle ground position between someone working 2 jobs to survive and someone owning 10 yacths, it’s refreshing to hear postions that represent 99% instead of 1% of people.
In this particular case, they are pretty open about what they stand for: https://breachmedia.ca/about/
It’s objectively independent as they are not funded by any single interest group, but actual readers. That doesn’t mean they don’t have their own opinions and perspectives.
Except for the Ukranian or Venezuelan people… for “some reason” they will remind us of how badly the 1% of Russia and Venzuela have been treated. They’ve been pretty good about Palestine, but they’ve been getting shelled every day and only al Jazeera still cares.
Is the “elite media” now is trying to “cultivating public consent” as the article says, or - as you say - do they try “to find middle ground”?
This ‘advocacy journalism’ is no journalism at all. It doesn’t even intend to research all the facts but rather only those that fit into a certain predefined narrative (while accusing others of being biased). Based on this half-truth, they then give you a desired opinion.
This is inherently bad as it only aims to sow division and makes any civilised political discourse increasingly impossible. That’s exactly what extremists from the right and left as well as malign foreign state actors want.
Both. As you said in the first few words of your comment, my comment was also “Irrespective of the topic <…>” and instead a direct response to you, not the attached article.
Look at how corporate media tried to justify US illegally kidnapping a president of a sovereign country. It’s against both US and international law, but media tried to manufacture consent for it by saying that Maduro was a bad guy.
Now look at flight attendants union strike in Canada where corporate media represented the postion of the government, the airlines and called flight attendants unreasonable for inconveniencing the travelers by demaning that they get paid for full day of work instead of just when they are in the air. That’s clear anti-worker reporting that hurts working people and defends corporate interests.
The corporate media coverage of the last two major union fights - flight attendants and Canada Post was pretty anti-working class. I distinctly recall how segment after segment there was representation only from the bosses. Next to no airtime was given to the union leaders. Almost like there is a class war being waged on the working class. 😉
E: Sorry it’s all the manufactured consent propaganda making me want to fight the rich. /s
This ‘manufactured consent’ is a very widespread propaganda buzzword, and from the way it is mostly used there are strong doubts that many people have read the book where it comes from. But Herman and Chomsky’s book “Manufacturing consent” is heavily used in Chinese propaganda circles, there is even a Chinese translation as you may know (while other Western books are censored in China. Why?)
This is pure propaganda that leads any discussion always to some sort of ‘class struggle.’ It’s always a fight. It’s all about us and them. If you don’t share the opinion, you are the enemy. In this setting, no other solution is possible. Period.
There we go. It took a total of 3 replies to get from concern trolling about Canadian independent media to Chinese propaganda allegations. Unhinged.