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Can you give example of dissident voices in the US? why do they need RT when they already have Intercept, Medium, BuzzFeed; Fox News or CNBC; Drudge Report or M

Can you give example of dissident voices in the US? why do they need RT when they already have Intercept, Medium, BuzzFeed; Fox News or CNBC; Drudge Report or Mother Jones; Breitbart or Daily Kos, etc?

iamnothere 8y ago
> Can you give example of dissident voices in the US? Really? How about: Occupy Wall Street, BLM, Anonymous, sovereign citizen/militia groups, pipeline protesters, anti factory farm agitators, union activists, socialists, alt-righters, Antifa, straight up Nazis, Nation of Islam, the list goes on. I don't agree with the positions of the vast majority of these groups, but I do think that it's important that we understand what they try to do and why they are trying to do it. Existing media outlets (even so-called "alt media") provide grossly distorted views of events associated with these groups, if they report on them at all.
- lostmsu 8y ago
  Which of them are not covered by either of the above sources?
  - throwaway5tre 8y ago
    They are covered with a pro-government slant.
  - poilcn 8y ago
    He doesn't mean that these platforms ignores existence of these groups, he says that they cannot provide place and sufficient time for these groups to express their positions in their own words, not distorted opinions and distorted facts in a way suitable for media corporations and their owners.
echevil 8y ago
Anything that may not be considered politically correct?
- ahakki 8y ago
  That’s what we had Gawker for.
- forapurpose 8y ago
  Very well covered by Fox and endless far right blogs and other publications ... I can't imagine there's been a time in history when more content of that sort was available.
forkLding 8y ago
Julian Assange? Edward Snowden? Manning? Don't think local news really want to touch those subjects or at least not elaborate. In comparison, RT, etc. Is almost rubbing it in people's faces even now that it feels overdone.
- nl 8y ago
  Kind of hard to make that argument when The Intercept was on the list.

iamnothere 8y ago

> Can you give example of dissident voices in the US? Really? How about: Occupy Wall Street, BLM, Anonymous, sovereign citizen/militia groups, pipeline protesters, anti factory farm agitators, union activists, socialists, alt-righters, Antifa, straight up Nazis, Nation of Islam, the list goes on. I don't agree with the positions of the vast majority of these groups, but I do think that it's important that we understand what they try to do and why they are trying to do it. Existing media outlets (even so-called "alt media") provide grossly distorted views of events associated with these groups, if they report on them at all.

lostmsu 8y ago
Which of them are not covered by either of the above sources?
- throwaway5tre 8y ago
  They are covered with a pro-government slant.
- poilcn 8y ago
  He doesn't mean that these platforms ignores existence of these groups, he says that they cannot provide place and sufficient time for these groups to express their positions in their own words, not distorted opinions and distorted facts in a way suitable for media corporations and their owners.

echevil 8y ago

Anything that may not be considered politically correct?

ahakki 8y ago
That’s what we had Gawker for.
forapurpose 8y ago
Very well covered by Fox and endless far right blogs and other publications ... I can't imagine there's been a time in history when more content of that sort was available.

forkLding 8y ago

Julian Assange? Edward Snowden? Manning? Don't think local news really want to touch those subjects or at least not elaborate. In comparison, RT, etc. Is almost rubbing it in people's faces even now that it feels overdone.

nl 8y ago
Kind of hard to make that argument when The Intercept was on the list.