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Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

Ytlaya posted:

(edit: actually I can think of some, but it only applies in situations where the public feels positively about a harmful country that the US government also materially supports, like Saudi Arabia or Israel; so it would be bad if the US was giving material aid to Assad and people supported this, but there's no realistic scenario where US media is making people hate a country that the government supports)

While there's definitely a lot of apologia for Saudi Arabia from a certain kind of op-ed writer, there are in fact stories in the New York Times, etc. that show Saudi Arabia and even Israel in a bad light. Unless by "making people hate a country that the government supports" you specifically mean false stories making people hate that country?

Edit: Come to think of it, most examples I can think of of outright factually false stories in the US media painting a foreign government in a negative light involve North Korea (definitely an "enemy" from a US perspective), but the source is usually a South Korean tabloid rather than a US government source.

Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Feb 24, 2021

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