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Originally Posted by feniin
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Anyone who believes there's a deep state controlling the government is probably mentally handicapped.
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I can actually believe there are powerful elements in government bodies that do not cycle regularly, so would be feasible to influence media and policy in a deep state way.
That said, when I used to occasionally watch Fox it would broadcast so many lies or misleading reports (that from my own knowlege or experience i knew were untrue).
I think it is really clever what they did. They create narratives people want to hear and use them to leverage the agenda of those behind Fox. However, their narratives were at odds with most other news outlets because of this. Creating a label for what they were doing, then using it as a way to attack other sources wasn't great.
Whats the chances one media outlet is right if dozens of independent outlets tell a differing story? It would be one hell of a coincidence for everyone else to be wrong. And here is where the real genius lies: they remove the coincidence, and cement their own position, with the simple explainstion 'the other providers are all controlled by a singular malevolent invisible entity'. And so the idea of deepstate media was born.
So yea, basically I believe 'deep state' was a bogeyman created by Fox to explain why the majority of outlets spin stories very differently to the Fox method. Smart.