Eegore wrote on 04/18/19 at 16:05:21:"with that though, the culture that allows policies to be put in place, that's the context that "news" provides"
I most likely agree with you here, but I am not sure I entirely understand what you are meaning. Are you indicating that mainstream news is how many people decide what they support?
well yes, but I also mean that mainstream news is a reflection of culture, they have to be to get ratings and advertisers. and that politicians then listen to culture to gage audience and their own viability at least enough to play the system to remain in power, and the news also acts as spin for policy and politicians
mainstream news can also help push policy slowly...
like 5 years ago I would have said that McCarthyism wouldn't be viable in any way today.... now... with Fox News and others pushing how "evil" anything left of nationalism is, that Socialism is a dirty word, I could totally see a new "Red Scare" heck, we are primed for it with all this talk of the "Deep State"