There was an incredibly harsh and damaging debate on this matter. Back then I was on the losing leftist side. We watched the Fox News broadcasts in horror.
Nowadays I find myself on the rightish side. Fox News is still insane though.
In my mind the current equivalent of the outsized influence of 2002/2003 Fox News programming is the political influence of employees of SV companies.
Somehow the common factor here is americans imposing their misinformed view of the world to the rest of the world with force, be it physical or cultural.
> the political influence of employees of SV companies
Maybe employees have power in Europe, but here in the United States employees have almost no power. Employment is at-will, and anyone who causes trouble for management is summarily fired.
Even management itself can be summarily fired by the board of directors of publicly owned corporations, like Twitter. Jack Dorsey is answerable to the stockholders, and also to the advertisers who generate Twitter's revenue. Not to the employees, who could all be eliminated and replaced if necessary. Jack too could be eliminated and replaced if necessary.
The only exception is Mark Zuckerberg, who set it up so that he has total voting control over Facebook and is untouchable by the stockholders. But that also means Zuck is untouchable by the employees.
The idea that SV corporations are run by the employees is a strange one.
There was an incredibly harsh and damaging debate on this matter. Back then I was on the losing leftist side. We watched the Fox News broadcasts in horror.
Nowadays I find myself on the rightish side. Fox News is still insane though.
In my mind the current equivalent of the outsized influence of 2002/2003 Fox News programming is the political influence of employees of SV companies.
Somehow the common factor here is americans imposing their misinformed view of the world to the rest of the world with force, be it physical or cultural.