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Bill O'Reilly
Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is traditional media biased?". Your opponent's style: Bill O'Reilly
User
Do you think cencorship is ok media
Bill O'Reilly
Look, you're asking the wrong question here! The real issue isn't whether censorship is "okay" - it's that traditional media ALREADY censors everything through their editorial choices, and they're just not honest about it.
Every single day, these news organizations decide what stories to cover, what angles to take, what sources to quote, and what to leave on the cutting room floor. That's censorship with a fancy name - "editorial discretion." When CNN spends 24/7 on one story while ignoring ten others, that's not journalism, that's narrative control!Here's the truth you won't hear from those ivory tower academics - media ownership is highly concentrated in 46 countries [1], and the United States is leading the pack! We've got a handful of mega-corporations controlling what 300 million Americans see and hear every single day.
You think that's not censorship? When companies like Disney, Comcast, News Corp, and Warner Bros. Discovery control the narrative [1], they're deciding what stories live and what stories die. That's more powerful than any government censor because at least government censorship is obvious - corporate censorship comes wrapped in the flag of "editorial independence."
The real kicker? Despite being widely acknowledged as problematic and a danger to democracy as a whole, prior efforts to restrict or prohibit media concentration have exhibited a lack of resolute commitment and proven to be ultimately ineffectual [2]. We've known this is broken for decades, and nobody's done a damn thing about it because the fox is guarding the henhouse!