Media Manipulation and Authoritarianism

So you're saying if you have a media machine

that purposefully lies to its people to

maintain a political fiction and get themselves power,

that that is the hallmark of an authoritarian system,

not a democratic system?

Absolutely.

Well, if we were ever to get something like

that in the United States,

we would be

horrified, furious to know that there was an

entire media organization designed to

bend reality, to manipulate facts, to maintain

power. It would... If I may, and I don't mean...

I'm, I'm not trying to

slam Hungary. It would never happen in the United

States.

It's just not...

I, I almost can't even conjure it, imagine it.

It must be very difficult-

Mm

... to live in a country where one media

organization,

out of whole cloth, knowingly, explicitly, maybe

even in meetings behind the scenes might say,

"We're lying to our audience," holy

shit,

and then call for newspeople to be fired for telling the

truth. I mean, if something like that happened in the United States,

it would be a

dark day indeed.

So I appreciate you raising the alarm bells for us.