@qkslvrwolf I would define 'real media' as that which is preferred by the public, which they are not compelled to regard. This view emphasizes the democratic market of ideas, and the public's role in making free choices.

It's too easy to demonize media, as if they order us about; they do not. That's a cop-out that inappropriately lets We the People off the hook. The problem is that too many citizens are dumb cows who don't want to have to think for themselves.

@qkslvrwolf But they're not mugging us for the money they have to have. We CHOOSE to pay them. We don't have to.

At the bottom of this entire food chain are hordes of people who just don't want to have to be inconvenienced in any way in order for anything to be better.

And that's their free choice. But I wish they were more honest with themselves and others about it.

@wesdym I mean, that's like saying "oh, don't like cars? don't drive" in a country where the infrastructure is nearly entirely built around cars and not driving one excludes you from society (torturous) and can literally get you killed. It's just an insane point of view.

Individual choice cannot make structural changes. Collective action is required to change the structure.