By that logic, the NY Times should be banned as a source. They’re opinion section is chocked full of basically the pro US point of view and defending Israel (including a memo advocating genocide denial). One-sided coverage, poorly sourced, it all applies to them, too.
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PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoHow do you distinguish between opinion and propaganda? Its entirely credible that Pepe Escobar sincerely believes the positions he holds.
Oh, so if he sincerely believes in genocide, it’s fine.
Should the corpus of every news source that includes opinion pieces that serve the interests of a war criminal state be banned?
If they continuously make apologia for that war criminal state’s war crimes, especially ongoing ones, yes, absolutely.
Shyfer@ttrpg.network 4 weeks ago
Five@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Regardless of our conflict, we can agree that Pepe Escobar is a shithead.
There’s an old joke that goes:
My concern is that the criteria you are using to justify banning The Cradle would also ban most United States media as well. I value the principle of a free press, and what you’re proposing is inconsistent with those values. It’s easy to call for the ban of information that disagrees with us, but unless we develop a more nuanced approach to combating propaganda, we risk replicating the values of the authoritarian systems we oppose.
PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My point is just that banning The Cradle is not inherently an illegitimate move. You may not agree with it, and I honestly wouldn’t see the point unless someone was spamming The Cradle’s articles or editorials, but it is a legitimate point to consider that they carry water for Russian propaganda, and in allowing that source, misinformation multiplies and makes the mods’ jobs harder.
Five@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
A appreciate your work demonstrating The Cradle’s support for the Russian state. It’s the first time I can remember seeing The Cradle posted on here, and in between being subscribed to these communities and my contributions to LemmyWorldDefenseHQ, I have not seen The Cradle spam as a reported or observed problem.
I’ve read the article, and I find it valuable. I’m alarmed that the Lemmy World !politics and !news mods have failed to demonstrate the pressing need for the ham-fisted gatekeeping and censorship regime they’ve implemented.
Lemmy.World is the largest instance, and !politics and !news are flagship communities. I would like to see the Fediverse overtake corporate forums, and learning to approach the spectrum of journalistic credibility with nuance is an essential feature of a better version of social media.