Not only in Soviet Russia the state can interfere with the contents of media... When there is a certain policy to fulfill by the politicians, which the big capital ordered (or some other big player in the political field which works for the big capital), then they'll also work on crushing opinions and reports that directly contradict the claims that these people deliver. ...Needless to say, sometimes the people from the bigger capital studied at the same universities like the politicians. So it's like a circle of old friends that all share nearly the same position on things anyway, so there is not much need to interfere directly, good old contacts make it all work by itself...
If one doesn't believe it, I think that topic is actually still a pretty current matter. Saying this from my perspective as a German. There was somebody who already did indicate that, during the high tide phase of the refugee take-in, there was something like a "certain manifest opinion" which you also needed to meet as a journalist if you worked for the media regulated by public law (aka actually "state channels" 'cause those just all too often present the state's opinion to you in an unreflected form) if you wanted to continue getting jobs from them or continue getting your reports sold to them... It was a while ago, a year at least. But somebody indicted something like that in a subtle way. That's how much "control over media" actually is a pretty recent topic.
"Hard to deny" if you've got 3 cells left in your brain that are able to make conclusions... There are enough young smartphone zombies which can't or which don't pay attention because they're not interested. On another hand, and this is something from "experience": You have to witness it once for yourself how those media can lie. You have to make an experience where you know more on a subject yourself or where you're able to get access to the real data and you just read the story yourself, with your own eyes and mind. And that image that you're able to create in your own mind from that then differs as much from the image in media as day and night do.
When there is a certain policy to fulfill by the politicians, which the big capital ordered (or some other big player in the political field which works for the big capital), then they'll also work on crushing opinions and reports that directly contradict the claims that these people deliver.
...Needless to say, sometimes the people from the bigger capital studied at the same universities like the politicians. So it's like a circle of old friends that all share nearly the same position on things anyway, so there is not much need to interfere directly, good old contacts make it all work by itself...
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Saying this from my perspective as a German.
There was somebody who already did indicate that, during the high tide phase of the refugee take-in, there was something like a "certain manifest opinion" which you also needed to meet as a journalist if you worked for the media regulated by public law (aka actually "state channels" 'cause those just all too often present the state's opinion to you in an unreflected form) if you wanted to continue getting jobs from them or continue getting your reports sold to them...
It was a while ago, a year at least. But somebody indicted something like that in a subtle way.
That's how much "control over media" actually is a pretty recent topic.
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There are enough young smartphone zombies which can't or which don't pay attention because they're not interested.
On another hand, and this is something from "experience": You have to witness it once for yourself how those media can lie. You have to make an experience where you know more on a subject yourself or where you're able to get access to the real data and you just read the story yourself, with your own eyes and mind. And that image that you're able to create in your own mind from that then differs as much from the image in media as day and night do.
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