• plyth@feddit.org
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    10 days ago

    I don’t understand how the worst thing to happen to Europe can still have such a cult of personality.

    Just imagine that the media in Germany and other countries is less free than it was in Hungary during Orban’s reign.

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        10 days ago

        It’s false of course. Plyth and HK-65 are just engaging in “Germany bad”. Don’t feed the troll.

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        10 days ago

        The media not asking the painful questions. Just now, SPD boss Klingbeil’s intent to tighten doctor’s notes, the whole CumEx thing, the unnecessary publicity for the AfD, and whatever else there is.

        We know that media companies rely on advertisements and the public broadcasters are steered by political boards. From time to time we notice the Gell-Mann Amnesia but without consequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#"Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect"

        Like bribery and the bribery index, in Germany we don’t pay cops but we reward politicians with seats on company boards. Likewise the media ticks all boxes for free media but there is still influence.

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          10 days ago

          Media scandals exist. Revolutionary observation. Do you now how high Hungary scores in freedom of press rankings all over the world and do you know how high Germany scores in the same rankings? Spoiler: Hungary scores worse than Germany in all of them and is typical among the worst if not the worst of all EU countries.

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            9 days ago

            What good is the ranking if the media still doesn’t ask the relevant questions? The ranking becomes part of the decrption. The media is trusted, not much more is expected while the politicians still don’t make politics for the people.

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              9 days ago

              You were talking about freedom of press and how it was better in Hungary under Orban which is just not true by any metric. That you personal have a problem with the press is just that, a you problem.

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                9 days ago

                Who is the freer animal, the lion in a cage or an unleashed, well-trained dog?

                You can open the cage and the lion is free, but how do you set the dog free?

                I wrote ‘imagine’ because I can’t offer hard facts. I can just point at the lack of investigations for the amount of money that the citizens have to pay for free media. 8 billion dollars, a budget to keep an eye on any politician. If it is only a me problem then I have to assume that the other citizens are happy with their politicians and their decisions.