Questions tagged [media]
Questions related to the political impact the media has (may it be an independent media outlet, or the mainstream media), or the general consensus the media has on a political topic.
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How easy is it to receive a radio signal in Mandarin from BBC and VoA in Beijing?
How easy is it to receive a radio signal in Mandarin from BBC and VoA in Beijing? In other words, is it a good signal that you can listen to at any time of day with readily available equipment that is ...
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Apart from censorship, how does the Chinese government control the media?
China’s constitution affords its citizens freedom of speech and press,
but the opacity of Chinese media regulations allows authorities to
crack down on news stories by claiming that they expose state ...
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Why there is little report about Huawei's launch of Mate 60 Pro phone? [closed]
Last week Chinese social media went viral about Huawei's launch of Mate 60 Pro phone (Aug 29). To the Chinese people, this is just another example of what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
But I ...
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Is there a data-based predictive model of what newspapers cover? [closed]
I am interested in a modern analogue to Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s propaganda model of media. (A modern revisitation of which can be found here.)
It would be interesting and valuable (to me) if ...
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To what extent (if any) does Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi answer reporters' questions, or at least appear to?
CNN's June 22, 2023 Biden makes trade-offs and Modi steps out of his comfort zone during elaborate state visit at White House includes the following:
But Modi, for one of the only times since he ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
I recently read that less than 3% of Ivy League professors (from Harvard and Yale) are conservative; the vast majority are liberal or very liberal. Also, most influential media are left-leaning. There ...
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Why are most US news programs silent about Iran-Saudi deal announced at Beijing on March 10th?
Saudi Arabia, Iran restore relations in a deal brokered by China on March 10th. Now 3 days have passed, but I only saw MSNBC and BBC briefly reported it on their TV programs once. All the other news ...
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Why is it assumed that UN votes are always based on Realpolitik rather than genuine convictions of the country in question?
For example, take this recent question. The question is "Why are non-Western countries siding with China in the UN?", and the asker assumes that China has some kind of influence over non-...
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Has Fox news, or any of the major personalities on it, addressed the revelations from the Dominion trial?
As a result of the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems Fox News was forced to turn over documentation including the private conversations of their leadership and major personalities. ...
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Why won't countries ban media companies that leak their own intelligence?
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/06/07/paul-masons-covert-intelligence-grayzone/
This makes me believe the work should be done by white label
organizations operating with firm infosec - Signal/ProtonMail,...
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Are there examples of laws/patterns that prevent "Manufactured Consent"
This is a rewrite of a more biased and now closed question I thought had a good core.
In the 1988 book Manufacturing Consent, Herman/Chomsky argued that corporate mass media have a symbiosis with the ...
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Is Chomsky's propaganda model valid?
In the 1988 book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Chomsky argued that corporate mass media essentially controls the minds of the general population as an alternative to ...
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What are the political reasons behind the Western media highlighting the HIMARS vehicles over the MLRS vehicles that Ukraine has recently received? [closed]
Ukraine has received 20 HIMARS vehicles and "more than 10" MLRS. A HIMARS has six rounds, which is half of the twelve rounds of an MLRS, but it is on a wheeled chassis instead of a tracked ...
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What position exactly did Merkel express about the Minsk agreements in this December 2022 interview?
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel gave an interview to the Zeit - but the Zeit is paywalled and I don't speak German. In that interview, she supposedly said:
I thought that the introduction of ...
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Who is the target audience of Russia's October 2022 claims about dirty bombs?
In recent days (October 2022), Russia has intensified claims that Ukraine is working on 'dirty' radioactive weapons, i.e. radioactive isotopes dispersed by conventional explosives. Who is the primary (...
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How do newspapers elucidate the motivations of politicians/countries?
(Not sure if this should be on the meta)
Here's an example of what I'm referring to:
A United States ally, South Korea has maintained it would not provide Ukraine with lethal aid and has sought to ...
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How many US nationals were working for major US news outlets in China in mid-2020?
Back at the end of 2020, there was this spat:
In a sharp escalation of tensions between the two superpowers, China announced on Tuesday that it would expel American journalists working for The New ...
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Is western media biased against the west?
Whenever I open Western Media I see negative news about Western countries like US, Britain etc. For example, I see videos insulting/making fun of the very president of USA, of gun violence, racism, ...
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Is there any EU state that de facto allows a political party to non-transparently pay media outlets using public funds?
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Recorder, a Romanian NGO recently published an investigation about how some political parties manage to hide the (indirect) funding of media outlets using money provided by the state (source, ...
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Aside the White House press conference, can the U.S. government give other types of access to certain journalists and news organizations?
In November 2018, Jim Acosta had his press credentials revoked by the White House, thereby barring his access to the White House press conferences.
CNN brought a lawsuit naming the president himself, ...
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What are the official sources of press releases and other announcements of the Federal and State governments of the US?
For example, in Ontario the government maintains an online newsroom, for distribution of all official press releases and announcements from the various branches of the provincial government. Although ...
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How do Western democracies justify censorship of foreign media outlets?
One of the features of a democracy is freedom of speech and media, but in the last few months Russian media outlets were closed and blocked online. Such censorship happened for example in the EU and ...
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From when & where is Kevin McCarthy quoted as saying "...there's two people I think, Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump."?
The April 28, 2022 Lincoln Project video Laughing includes an audio clip of someone quoting the current US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as follows:
"There's... there's two people, I ...
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What is the reason for blocking Russian duma Youtube channel?
According to BBC News the Russian duma's YouTube channel was blocked. What is the reason for that given that this would potentially mean that YouTube will be banned in Russia and the alternative ...
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Have retired top US military officials become substantially more outspoken and cited on political issues in the last decade?
Reading Politico's April 04, 2022 How two dozen retired generals are trying to stop an overhaul of the Marines and re-reading my own comment:
Retired yet notable military figures have recently ...
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How can Ukraine's invasion end for the Russian media and how do they justify the possible scenarios? [closed]
After writing my first question I realized that I can ask another question so to have a good summary of the Russian positions in the media on the ways the invasion of Ukraine can end.
How does Russian ...
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Where can I find videos of russian tv shows covering the russian invasion of Ukraine?
I was watching a tv show in my country on the matter and they showed some footages of the russian tv shows, if I remember well one of them was called "60 minutes". The focus was on the ...
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Will there be any televised first-round presidential debates in France during the "equal airtime" period that starts on 28 March 2022?
The rule in France in 2022 is that the media must treat verified candidates for the presidency "equitably" until 28 March, and from then on it must treat them "equally". So before ...
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Does TASS have a disclosed direct line with the Kremlin?
It's been disclosed that RT has a direct line with the Kremlin.
When Time magazine's Moscow correspondent Simon Shuster visited RT Editor-in-Chief Margareta Simonyan in her office in 2015, he noticed ...
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Why is Reuters considered as an independent and unbiased political news source?
Reuters is very often used and quoted in parliamentary hearings, google updates and different news outlets.
Many people say that this is because of the "independent " nature of reporting of ...
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How do international news agencies make their maps of Russia's military progress in Ukraine and where do they get their data?
Over the last few weeks most major international news agencies have used maps to show the progress of the Russian military in Ukraine, showing large regions in red presumably denoting Russian ...
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Which countries have blocked access to rt.com?
We know that the EU countries have blocked access to rt.com, and some people in India have also reported that they can no longer get to it. But not all western countries have blocked it. Does anyone ...
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If Russia plans to demilitarize Ukraine, does that mean (e.g.) they plan to take over or dismantle the Kharkiv tank factory (and design bureau)?
Ukraine has inherited (from Soviet times) the Morozov design bureau and the Malyshev (tank) factory, both located in Kharkiv. These have been responsible for a non-trivial amount of armored vehicles, ...
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Has Google removed RT.com from web searches (in the EU)? [closed]
If I search (from an EU IP) seemingly for anything on Google with the site:rt.com restriction, I get no results, but funny pages like "476 results removed".
Did Google announce removing RT ...
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How will Russians get reliable information? [closed]
Wikipedia:
Article 29(5) of the Constitution of Russia states, "The freedom of the mass media shall be guaranteed. Censorship shall be prohibited."
New York Times, March 4, 2022:
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How is the EU ban on Russian media (eg RT) implemented legally?
As a part of the war of Russia on Ukraine, European Union has imposed a sanction to block media associated with Russian government within the union.
How is this implemented in terms of legal decrees ...
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How is RT biased regarding Ukraine war?
RT and Sputnik are being banned in the EU, so I guess the question is now moot. I will ask it to be closed
Disclaimer: I am French and only have a fleeting interest in what is happening in Ukraine (...
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Putin orders troops to eastern Ukraine? [closed]
NBC says: Putin orders troops to eastern Ukraine, drawing condemnation at emergency U.N. meeting, but I don't see how they got the information.
Swissinfo says: Russian military will only enter Ukraine'...
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Why should nations that stand to benefit from climate change have to contribute to the fight against it?
Based on this article, this article and this article, global warming could benefit some countries in the world. The first article (withdrawn later as pointed out by LShaver) says the warming of ...
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Apart from RT DE, are any other German language state-funded broadcasters active in Germany?
Germany has banned RT DE (the German language edition of the international Russian state-funded broadcaster formerly knows as Russia Today). The official reason is that RT has no permit (and has not ...
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Why does Germany ban RT but not France24 or Voice of America?
Germany has banned RT, apparently because it is considered to be not independent of the Russian government (Die Medienkommission sieht die Staatsferne nicht gewährleistet), which funds it directly. ...
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The influence of the "24-hour news cycle" on politics - how useful is this concept?
Many in politics refer to the "24-hour news cycle", but what does it mean?
It doesn't mean that reporting of and commentary on fast-changing (or not so fast-changing) political events goes ...
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How to Look for Evidence Supporting/Rejecting the Claims in a News Article? [closed]
In most documents that give instructions on how to discern facts from misinformation, they highlight the importance of looking for evidence in reliable and balanced references that support/reject ...
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Has political reporting in the US shifted towards using more graphical violent imagery in headlines in the past decade? Has this been quantified?
Politico: White House lights up Manchin after he crushes Biden's megabill
CNN: Meadows slams McCarthy and suggests Trump should be elected speaker if Republicans win House
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What are the dates of the "real" press conferences given by President Biden?
I recently read an article that claimed that President Biden as of the 7th of June 2021 had given only one "real" press conference, where the reporter defines a "real press conference&...
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As a UK resident, why are the comings and goings inside individual American schools reported on National news stations? [closed]
Growing up in the UK in the 90's, we didn't really care whether Bethany got in trouble for wearing her hair long, or Darren got in trouble for wearing a particular t-shirt. Now, however, such trivial ...
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Has the US Department of Justice made an attempt to define what is or isn't journalistic activity? Developing new policy, but to what will it apply?
From Politico's FBI raid on Project Veritas founder’s home sparks questions about press freedom
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last month, Garland was asked who qualifies as a journalist ...
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Has Biden held far fewer press interviews than Obama or Trump in an equivalent time period?
According to one CJR article:
Biden conducted far fewer interviews during his first months in office than Trump did: nine in his first hundred days, compared with fifty-one for Trump and forty-six ...
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Is the Australian right-wing media giving Biden any credit for AUKUS?
As far as I can tell from my limited sampling, the Murdoch-owned Australia press (e.g. Sky News Australia) is talking about Biden's mental capacity fairly constantly and not in a positive manner. It's ...
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Who are the White House staff member or members that are cutting off the President from taking questions?
Apparently President Biden is routinely cut off and prevented from taking questions from reporters by the White House staff who are never identified in these reports. Most recently this occurred ...
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