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DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 2 days agoIt’s gotten to a point where you not only have to read the entire article, as the meat of the story is hidden in like the 12th paragraph, but you also have to learn to read between the lines. Like when that story came out about marines dying in a helicopter in a part of Africa. The story wasn’t that Marines died, the story was that we had Marines in that part of the world, and the it’s on you to figure out why there are Marines there, instead of that article just explaining it to readers. And now journalists in western media also have to learn how to write between the lines so they don’t get canned by the people that own and sponsor our media.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Pretty much the only way to read news. The spin is always present, as long as you know which angles these people are pushing and what their intentions are (and which groups they don’t want to disturb) you can get to some degree of truth.