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Many diaspora from the global south, who grew up in countries with state media, but now lives in the west will tell you even the free-est western fifth estate i
by dirtyid 6y ago
Many diaspora from the global south, who grew up in countries with state media, but now lives in the west will tell you even the free-est western fifth estate is prone to manufactured consent that is frequently indistinguishable from state propaganda. IMO perfunctory rationalization extends into this labelling as well. Of all media sources, state media is probably the easiest to identify. Presumably that's what Twitter's labelling is for, unless it's actually a wiki style reliable source list, in which case it should be advertised as such. If not then BBC / CBC is government funded state media and should be labelled as such.
- neartheplain 6y agoI agree. At the same time, the BBC and CGTN fall into materially different categories with respect to editorial independence. So does PBS, for that matter; while they're funded in part by the taxpayer, their coverage of the Trump administration has been anything but subservient, and indeed at times quite critical [0]. Putting these organizations in the same class of media bias seems to erase some important, and measurable, distinctions. [0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/january-6-2021-pbs-newshour-full-episode https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/january-6-2021-pbs-newshou...