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huppakee@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The Guardian publishes articles critical of the genocide in Gaza, which is the only correct position to take on the issue. However they have served Zionist interests in the past and carried water for US warmongers.

You can be independent and still carry interests of Zionistd and US warmongers, both knowingly and unknowingly. You have every right to be skeptical because of previous publications and also every right to share that here, not trying to argue there, but there is no such things as always having the correct position. Every media outlet will at some point publish something questionable. My point being, you should never swallow news as a definite truth also when you’re trusting a certain source in general.

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considine@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s a good point. I totally agree. Every news source has its biases.

The scary thing is getting hundreds of millions of people to believe Western news delivers the truth, while non Western news delivers the lies.

Also I don’t believe there is a single correct position on every issue. But on genocide there is a basic take: stop it immediately.

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- huppakee@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  While I sort of agree. I’m just gonna say, you ain’t gonna find anything mainstream western media that doesn’t have major ties to unethical corpos unless you basically force yourself to only use AP and the Guardian (and even then, pretty sure they still have dodgy ties, just it’s not as visible since no direct “ownership”.)
  
  They are two examples of more believable / trustworthy western news outlets, I don’t think anyone in this thread is anywhere close to implying all western news is true or that all non-western news is false.
  
  Concerning genocide, almost everybody on earth agrees the only sensible thing is to stop it; that’s why most pro-Israeli news act as if there is no genocide happening there. I think they are wrong, Israel is committing genocide.
  
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  - considine@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    I don’t think anyone in this thread is anywhere close to implying all western news is true or that all non-western news is false. Yes, I agree. But it’s a common belief in the West that Russian and Chinese news, for example are pure propaganda. The irony is that this belief is itself the result of propaganda.
    
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    huppakee@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s mostly because the trustworthy news outlet from those countries don’t publish in English whereas the propaganda is. But you’re right people don’t think there is independent journalism in Russia and China. That is not so much an east/west axis but a capitalist democracy / Communist authoritarianism axis.
    
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