Why is US politics relying so much on campaigning and donations anyway? Not that we don’t have the odd politician speaking somewhere physically here either but it is fairly rare in comparison. Most of the whole “get to know” part happens through TV or internet media. The US just seems to make it a weird spectacle, which imo just further reinforces the whole “team” aspects of it and with that the whole two party system.
Our news system has no integrity, and is loyal only to money. Ad campaigns are the only option to reach the passively informed with a clear and uncompromised message.
Is there no publicly funded news media / broadcaster? Like the German Tagesschau, or UK’s BBC, or the Canadian CBC, etc? Typically there’s a higher amount of trust for those, since they are mostly acting independently and the majority of funding coming from the people itself.
We have NPR and PBS. They don’t get as much exposure as corporate news. You’ll see posts on Lemmy from both publications often, but this is obviously not the average American’s experience.
There is, unfortunately they’re viewed by on of the political parties as being evil liberal propaganda machines, and they very much want to privatize them or just sell all of their content off and shutter them.
In 2010, a biased and purchased Supreme Court declared that wealthy people are allowed to spend whatever amounts they want to on propaganda. There’s no way to get a word in edgewise.
Why is US politics relying so much on campaigning and donations anyway? Not that we don’t have the odd politician speaking somewhere physically here either but it is fairly rare in comparison. Most of the whole “get to know” part happens through TV or internet media. The US just seems to make it a weird spectacle, which imo just further reinforces the whole “team” aspects of it and with that the whole two party system.
Our news system has no integrity, and is loyal only to money. Ad campaigns are the only option to reach the passively informed with a clear and uncompromised message.
Is there no publicly funded news media / broadcaster? Like the German Tagesschau, or UK’s BBC, or the Canadian CBC, etc? Typically there’s a higher amount of trust for those, since they are mostly acting independently and the majority of funding coming from the people itself.
We have NPR and PBS. They don’t get as much exposure as corporate news. You’ll see posts on Lemmy from both publications often, but this is obviously not the average American’s experience.
There is, unfortunately they’re viewed by on of the political parties as being evil liberal propaganda machines, and they very much want to privatize them or just sell all of their content off and shutter them.
In 2010, a biased and purchased Supreme Court declared that wealthy people are allowed to spend whatever amounts they want to on propaganda. There’s no way to get a word in edgewise.