Even in that wonderful socialist society you’re envisioning, organized working class appoints “managers”, and those become the ruling class. In order for them not to, they need to have very little power outside of what’s necessary. Having a state media in this case becomes this power.
So, as I said in my previous comment, a media independent both from the rulling class and from capital is a necessary prerequisite or having a free country.

They do, a lot actually.

Independent, fully independent media, is crucial for a country to not slip into authoritarianism. The temptation of starting manipulating people’s minds given the instrument will be impossible to resist.
The media should be fully independent though, including independence from capital.

There is a saying in Russian that sounds something like “one little claw is stuck means the whole bird gets eaten”. In other words, slop, not even once.
I have an old collegue that I meet about once a year. A year ago he was all about using it responsibly and stuff, this year we started arguing about merits of slop, and in the middle of conversation he opened a phone, asked a bot for more arguments, and read the response verbatim.

I mean, yeah, articles from columnists are definitely happening. That’s what I am talking about.

The amount of right wing men who pretend that a big number of women is outraged about her is way, way larger. To the point that I can safely call it astroturfed campaign.

In the same vain, most tits look very similar, so if you saw like 10 different pairs, you get the gist of it and you wouldn’t be surprised by new ones. Yet, for some reason, people keep looking at photos of bare chested women all the time, over and over again.

Nobody in the world bought cubic truck based on it’s merits. It’s an ideological purchase, and nothing those goobers do or say changes their camp, so it can’t hurt or boost the sales.

There is no saying that a desert will remain a desert in 10k years.