hh on Nostr: That applies to the private leg of the Corporatist State media apparatus. Things like ...

That applies to the private leg of the Corporatist State media apparatus. Things like the CNN or Fox. They're propaganda in one way or another because that's "the deal" in a Corporate State regime. Private ownership is tolerated and rewarded with wealth beyond what would be possible in a free market, as long as you play along and spread and uphold the mandated ideology. Pointing out that those outlets are propaganda is nothing new or clever.

What about things like RT and Sputnik, or Al-Jazeera, for example?

These are full-on State propaganda organs, like LITERALLY State-funded, State-owned and State-directed propaganda. And not only they don't acknowledge this obvious fact, but for some reason independent/alternative media in the West insist on presenting them as independent/alternative media sources. Which they never do with Western exact equivalents of those two outlets, such as the BBC.

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“Journalism often functions as propaganda. The difference is that State propaganda at least openly acknowledges that it is propaganda. When a journalist publishes an article, people think it's journalism. I even see journalists defending the idea that journalism must have an agenda”.

The concept of agenda-setting is an aberrant one, yet it’s the first thing they teach you when you start studying journalism.
In these years, I’ve often criticized Bukele, but in this part of the interview published by Time, I must admit that he’s simply spot-on.