“In alliance with the authoritarian regime, the [Russian] mass media has made the country a real ‘society of the spectacle,’”, says Ilya Budraitskis, a political and social theorist previously based in Moscow. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar with the Program in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley in the US.

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    1 year ago

    Wasn’t that always the case in authoritarian countries of all kinds since the invention of mass media?

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        It’s the case in pretty much every country, but it’s particularly bad in countries that have a lot of power and minimal oversight (Russia, the US, China, India, even the UK).