When you have enormous power, what do you DO with it? What has the US done with the greatest power the world has seen?
Who benefited?
American prestige hurt-, who benefits?
American self-image hurt– who benefits?
Does the media consciously decide what issues the public will have on their plate? Has the press almost always, in its history, served as mouthpiece of some interest or another?
If the media is now controlled by gigantic corporations, does that mean it no longer serves interests? Or does it serve gigantic interests? Is there competition among interests to utilize the press when it is all owned by a small group of the ultra-powerful?
The media, in a stable situation, traditionally pacifies public opinion or massages it into unified support of something– is our media uniting or dividing?
Did the right/left noise of the first decade and a half of this century divide? How much did media create of that? Did it suddenly get dropped?
The media traditionally pacifies the masses– if the media actively divided the masses, why?
Do normies assume that right/left hatred is organic? Do they think realistically about the history of the press?
Is the truth reaching them?