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"Horrifying even the most radical critics of Western capitalism:" In Putin’s Russia, mass media has gone from being a function of society to a form of power over it, researcher says (russiapost.info)
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"In alliance with the authoritarian regime, the [Russian] mass media has made the country a real 'society of the spectacle,'", says Ilya Budraitskis, a political and social theorist previously based in Moscow. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar with the Program in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley in the US.

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[–] taladar@feddit.de 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wasn't that always the case in authoritarian countries of all kinds since the invention of mass media?

[–] SierpinskiDreieck@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

to a certain degree even in democracies. Manufacturing consent

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

It's the case in pretty much every country, but it's particularly bad in countries that have a lot of power and minimal oversight (Russia, the US, China, India, even the UK).