jhungary
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The problem with mainstream Western corporate media is that they are very much aligned with the geopolitical interests of the state. Now, this can be expected from VOA, which is supposed to be the voice of its owner.
But, when the US mainstream news media is so powerful and able to set or change the discourse and when they parrot the state line based on geopolitical interests, then you will have loads of suspects and attackers in acts of terror in China's Xinjiang while they are very quick to portray attacks on Western interests as act of terrorism by default.
I say "by default" because they do not have to get access to "miraculously" open Western governments to fathom out that the incident is an act of terrorism or not. From second one, day one, they paint a picture and set the discourse.
The question here is not whether the Western media attend to every criminal incident that happen in China. The question is about how the Western media sets the discourse with respect to mass events that they perceive as having geopolitical value for the state they represent.
Otherwise, I do not care how many NYC police officers are stabbed every day and it is very normal if they do not care what petty crime happened in China.
Like what happened in Oklahoma bombing incident, they first set the political tone and as the hard data came out, they unwillingly stated it, but the "Arab terrorist" discourse was already set in. This is in fact how they managed to manipulate average person's view to recruit enough support for their glorious war on terror in the 2000s.
I do not complain why the Western media is as it is. What is important is to know their tactics and strategy and thereby examine ourselves to fix the shortcomings.
This is not to become just like them when we gather enough power, but to have the required consciousness toward and thus immunity to the Western media's discourse terrorism.
Knowing is empowerment.
lol, a bunch of cork and bull.
First of all, if US media align and towing the state line, then we won't see so many reality show in US media today, people watch American Idol or NCIS a lot more than 20/20 or dateline any day.
What you are saying is a bunch of BULL, coming from a person who think he knows how US media works and in fact know nothing like it, in fact, I would have bet on you never actually watch any Western TV shows, political or drama.
US media serve the US Audience, it report based on what US audience want. Not what geopolitical direction the government have, simply because the government did not control the media and they were not the one paying money to TV station and keep them afloat, that's from selling advertisement slot to commercial backer. Which basically about rating.
Media have a minimal responsibility on reporting political news compare to most "entertainment news" which basically mean the Political News are not getting enough air time on any news program or newspaper and for one reason only, they don't sell. And for that, they will need to sell the news that can be sold to the public.
If only the US media is like what you just said, which being the mouth piece of the government, a lot of thing could have done easily by the government. Vietnam war would be a different ball game. But apparently everyone know, except you, that Media are always at odd with the government, simply being a yes man don't sell.
And what about you? Do you care about what happen to China? The killing in Kunming, the Mine, etc?
I know about stuff, not from official channel. As for the question do I care about them, in a way, I care about it, because it was about Islamic extremist terrorist, but my answer would be I won't until I need to go to China, in a way.