Are there any historical examples/writing about an authoritarian takeover where the newspapers got purchased and turned into regime propaganda and everybody just kept reading them (and complaining about them) anyway? Is this how it usually goes down or are Americans being particularly weird in this?
I think the self-own kayfabe of pretending it couldn't possibly be propaganda but has to be some other secret explanation (editor incompetence?) and then continuing to read the papers anyway is the thing I find particularly annoying. Reading what you know is propoganda isn't usefuly informative!
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