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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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      • considine@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I read independent journalism from China. It’s called Ginger River Review if you’re interested.

        Independent news media was almost totally killed off in the US and Canada with the media mergers. Good thing Substack and for a while Medium, also YouTube, and just independent websites popped up. Of course YouTube is owned by Google and the reporting on it reflects their censorship.

        As for authoritarian, that’s a core part of the propaganda campaign developed by NATO / The Atlantic Council to deal with states that don’t bend the knee to US empire. It’s a smear that distorts what is happening in The West (increasing authoritarianism) and in China (improving quality of life).

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