McGran said:
Perhaps this is another example where the US is ahead of the rest of the world. My take on the situation in the UK fits well with ArnoldRimmer's description of what is happening in Germany. While there has always been dissent if you knew where to look it has rarely felt so 'mainstream' as it does right now regarding the Ukranian situation. Where in the past it felt like there were a handful of correspondents trying to tell people about the other side of the story to a largely ignorant public today it feels like a significant minority (and in some cases majority) are rejecting the message coming from politicians and media alike. |
Well UK I can understand to some degree, what with the UK having so much government hold on the media with BBC being the big one.
I guess the main difference with the US is size?
There are so many Newspapers and Newscasts out there, i suppose it makes more sense that opinions are more fractionalized/regionalized and because of that, commenters will bleed over into other newspapers.
Rarely do both Red and Blue mainstream papers cover an issue on the same side, and even when they do you've got libretarian papers, communist papers, isolationist papers, economist news papers and if they all agree somehow, you've got the conspiracy theory rags.
Germany I'd of thought would of been like the US.
