Stalin
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Make a serious attempt to kneecap the "mass media". As most of it is already by owned by cowardly lickspittle
billionaires, it should be an easy ride for frump
Weaponize the levers of government for partisan political gain. Pressure privately owned media companies to toe the party line. Punish the owners who resist and reward the ones who acquiesce.
That’s how Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán consolidated control of the media in his country, according to scholars who witnessed Hungary’s democratic backsliding firsthand.
President Trump and his allies appear to be running the same playbook against media outlets in the US.
Using legal maneuvers, financial incentives and public pressure campaigns, Trump is persuading companies to make changes that benefit his party and bolster his own power. Wednesday’s decision by Disney’s ABC to sideline Jimmy Kimmel is the latest example.
Free speech groups like the ACLU warned that the Kimmel suspension is part of a broad Trump-led effort to silence his critics.
“This is beyond McCarthyism. Trump officials are repeatedly abusing their power to stop ideas they don’t like, deciding who can speak, write, and even joke,” the ACLU said. “The Trump administration’s actions, paired with ABC’s capitulation, represent a grave threat to our First Amendment freedoms.”
Gábor Scheiring, who experienced Orbán’s autocratic power plays firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament, told CNN that “this story is very familiar.”
cheiring said that both ABC’s decision-making about Kimmel and last July’s move by CBS to cancel “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” reek of what is sometimes called “Orbanism.”
Scheiring, now an assistant professor at Georgetown University Qatar, said Orbán weakened public broadcasting, muzzled independent media through “autocratic carrots and sticks,” and incentivized owners to fall in line.
“A key underlying story is that media owners, both foreign and domestic, largely capitulated individually rather than mounting collective resistance, which enabled Orbán’s systematic capture strategy,” he said.
Media critics in the US have similarly chastised American companies like Disney for caving to Trump’s desires, most pointedly through legal settlements.
comrade stalin
moscow
billionaires, it should be an easy ride for frump
Weaponize the levers of government for partisan political gain. Pressure privately owned media companies to toe the party line. Punish the owners who resist and reward the ones who acquiesce.
That’s how Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán consolidated control of the media in his country, according to scholars who witnessed Hungary’s democratic backsliding firsthand.
President Trump and his allies appear to be running the same playbook against media outlets in the US.
Using legal maneuvers, financial incentives and public pressure campaigns, Trump is persuading companies to make changes that benefit his party and bolster his own power. Wednesday’s decision by Disney’s ABC to sideline Jimmy Kimmel is the latest example.
Free speech groups like the ACLU warned that the Kimmel suspension is part of a broad Trump-led effort to silence his critics.
“This is beyond McCarthyism. Trump officials are repeatedly abusing their power to stop ideas they don’t like, deciding who can speak, write, and even joke,” the ACLU said. “The Trump administration’s actions, paired with ABC’s capitulation, represent a grave threat to our First Amendment freedoms.”
Gábor Scheiring, who experienced Orbán’s autocratic power plays firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament, told CNN that “this story is very familiar.”
cheiring said that both ABC’s decision-making about Kimmel and last July’s move by CBS to cancel “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” reek of what is sometimes called “Orbanism.”
Scheiring, now an assistant professor at Georgetown University Qatar, said Orbán weakened public broadcasting, muzzled independent media through “autocratic carrots and sticks,” and incentivized owners to fall in line.
“A key underlying story is that media owners, both foreign and domestic, largely capitulated individually rather than mounting collective resistance, which enabled Orbán’s systematic capture strategy,” he said.
Media critics in the US have similarly chastised American companies like Disney for caving to Trump’s desires, most pointedly through legal settlements.
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comrade stalin
moscow
