Dictatorships tend to seize control of the media and crush it. They decide what may be written and expressed. Naturally, this is something that cannot be accepted or supported—but what does one do in a democracy where the situation is the opposite?
As a politician, business leader, or the like, you cannot question the media or individual journalists. If you do, you get called all sorts of unpleasant names and may be accused of undermining democracy.
Journalists and the media are completely protected and unfortunately in many cases, not all, but they then drive their own narratives and agendas.
This has led some politicians—particularly those on the political right—to record the interviews they participate in themselves and post them in their entirety, without edits, on their own platforms.
This, in turn, has led many people to become aware of the journalists' narratives and their working methods, and many interviews have been retracted by major media outlets.
What do we think? What do we do?
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