<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thr0w72594</author><text>In Russia they have state-controlled media, but America is a media-controlled state.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Edward Snowden on corporate media hiring surveillance state operatives and liars</title><url>https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1454542964470996999</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>iJohnDoe</author><text>I would say that everyone knows this, but that simply isn’t the case. The vast majority don’t know that mainstream media are just mouth pieces for whatever message that needs to be distributed. More often it’s what message shouldn’t be distributed.&lt;p&gt;Aren’t the major media and news outlets owned by only handful of people? They won’t dare risk pissing off the government.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Edward Snowden on corporate media hiring surveillance state operatives and liars</title><url>https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1454542964470996999</url></story>