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Originally Posted by tompe
Can you give some examples were it has turned into a propaganda machine? And the countries that are considered to be working democratic countries.
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Uh huh. Let me guess, any country that has a flawed state media won't qualify as a "working democracy," right?
I really see no particular reason to exclude states on this basis, especially since the largest nation (China) is not a democracy and almost certainly has at least some propagandist state media.
There are also more complex situations, such as Russia and Italy, where specific state actors (Putin, Berlusconi) have strong control over major media outlets and use these outlets to manipulate the public. Shinawatra also owned iTV; and it's unclear to me, as an outsider, how the current Thai juntas are handling media (state-owned and otherwise).