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Perhaps Iranian media say that western media doesn’t tell the truth about America. Anywhere from the coverage of Ferguson, Baltimore, Occupy Wall Street, to Hun

Perhaps Iranian media say that western media doesn’t tell the truth about America. Anywhere from the coverage of Ferguson, Baltimore, Occupy Wall Street, to Hunter Biden laptop and the alleged corruption emails. No idea on Iranian media but I have seen media in other western attack-targets countries like RT etc. have coverage like that. Today on HN there was a post on the massacre of Africans in Paris in 1961 that either had deliberately erroneous coverage or no coverage in western media. (It was flagged). It seems that conventional media all over the world are the mouthpieces of power centers and elites. They are almost all some form of state media and propaganda even if privately owned. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28895266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28895266 The original article that was flagged: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58927939 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58927939 If you go back to the overthrow of the democratically elected Mossadegh in Iran to take over their oil, all western media synchronously lied about Iran coverage then even going as far as accusing him of being a communist (which he openly was against), and amusingly the communist youth movement was funded by the CIA.

adventured 5y ago
The worst aspects of America are hyper covered globally in fact. Here in the US you can't get away from stories like Ferguson while they're going on, they covered every possible angle about it and all of the coverage was harsh. It was massively covered and exceptionally public, as such things usually are in the US. The whole world immediately knows about it when something like that happens in the US. The whole world knows whatever America's warts are at a given moment in time. You see it all over HN every single day, in every other thread. If something happens in the US of consequence, hop over to BBC.co.uk and they're guaranteed to be covering it, as will the world's press. What exactly is hidden? Occupy Wall Street was in the headlines prominently for two years. It's still frequently being talked about precisely because of that vast coverage: everyone knows about it. The Biden laptop, well FoxNews & Co. have covered that to death. The right side of politics talked about it endlessly for months. They're still talking about it. Iran murdered thousands of protestors in 2019 - possibly as bad as Tiananmen Square - and it was only barely covered by the mainstream media. They don't even bother talking about that event now and it certainly won't get the forever coverage that Tiananmen Square has received across decades. > democratically elected Mossadegh Mossadegh wasn't democratically elected. That's one of the great lies of recent history. The people of Iran did not elect him. He was installed by a monarchy, the Shah of Iran, and backed by the equivalent of fuedal lords that dominated the Majlis. "On 28 April 1951, the Shah appointed Mosaddegh as Prime Minister after the Majlis (Parliament of Iran) nominated Mosaddegh by a vote of 79–12." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh#Prime_Minister_of_Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh#Prime_Minis...
- leereeves 5y ago
  > "On 28 April 1951, the Shah appointed Mosaddegh as Prime Minister after the Majlis (Parliament of Iran) nominated Mosaddegh by a vote of 79–12." That's essentially the same way the Prime Minister of the UK is selected. Was the Parliament of Iran not elected at that time? (It is elected now, but candidates must be approved by the Guardian Council, which is appointed by the Supreme Leader, so it's not really democratic now.)
- redis_mlc 5y ago
  > The Biden laptop, well FoxNews & Co. have covered that to death. The right side of politics talked about it endlessly for months. They're still talking about it. Fox is talking about it because it's one of the most important political corruption stories of our time: - why did several top US generals collude to lie about the computer's authenticity? They said it wasn't Hunter's, yet the Biden family never denied that it was. - how can a useless family member who's a drug addict go on tour with a sitting US VP and collect $1 billion from the CCP and Ukraine? The CCP doesn't donate money to anybody (see the BRI debt traps), so what did the CCP get in return? - why won't the IRS investigate that $1 billion, including the 10% kickbacks that went to Joe Biden as documented on the laptop? - why was the story suppressed by the MSM before the Presidential election? - how old were the girls in the photos with Hunter? - how can the CCP leverage the above against Joe Biden, now that he's President? - who is buying Hunter Biden's "artworks" for up to $500,000 each, and who is overseeing the sales for conflicts of interest? They were supposed to be blind sales managed by the White House (lol), but Hunter showed up at the art gallery launch, so knows some of the possible buyers. None of the above should have happened in a Western democracy without jail time. After dealing with that, why did the Clinton Foundation receive over $2 billion from Saudi Arabia, and why did it stop when Hillary failed to win the Presidency?

adventured 5y ago

The worst aspects of America are hyper covered globally in fact. Here in the US you can't get away from stories like Ferguson while they're going on, they covered every possible angle about it and all of the coverage was harsh. It was massively covered and exceptionally public, as such things usually are in the US. The whole world immediately knows about it when something like that happens in the US. The whole world knows whatever America's warts are at a given moment in time. You see it all over HN every single day, in every other thread. If something happens in the US of consequence, hop over to BBC.co.uk and they're guaranteed to be covering it, as will the world's press. What exactly is hidden? Occupy Wall Street was in the headlines prominently for two years. It's still frequently being talked about precisely because of that vast coverage: everyone knows about it. The Biden laptop, well FoxNews & Co. have covered that to death. The right side of politics talked about it endlessly for months. They're still talking about it. Iran murdered thousands of protestors in 2019 - possibly as bad as Tiananmen Square - and it was only barely covered by the mainstream media. They don't even bother talking about that event now and it certainly won't get the forever coverage that Tiananmen Square has received across decades. > democratically elected Mossadegh Mossadegh wasn't democratically elected. That's one of the great lies of recent history. The people of Iran did not elect him. He was installed by a monarchy, the Shah of Iran, and backed by the equivalent of fuedal lords that dominated the Majlis. "On 28 April 1951, the Shah appointed Mosaddegh as Prime Minister after the Majlis (Parliament of Iran) nominated Mosaddegh by a vote of 79–12." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh#Prime_Minister_of_Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh#Prime_Minis...

leereeves 5y ago
> "On 28 April 1951, the Shah appointed Mosaddegh as Prime Minister after the Majlis (Parliament of Iran) nominated Mosaddegh by a vote of 79–12." That's essentially the same way the Prime Minister of the UK is selected. Was the Parliament of Iran not elected at that time? (It is elected now, but candidates must be approved by the Guardian Council, which is appointed by the Supreme Leader, so it's not really democratic now.)
redis_mlc 5y ago
> The Biden laptop, well FoxNews & Co. have covered that to death. The right side of politics talked about it endlessly for months. They're still talking about it. Fox is talking about it because it's one of the most important political corruption stories of our time: - why did several top US generals collude to lie about the computer's authenticity? They said it wasn't Hunter's, yet the Biden family never denied that it was. - how can a useless family member who's a drug addict go on tour with a sitting US VP and collect $1 billion from the CCP and Ukraine? The CCP doesn't donate money to anybody (see the BRI debt traps), so what did the CCP get in return? - why won't the IRS investigate that $1 billion, including the 10% kickbacks that went to Joe Biden as documented on the laptop? - why was the story suppressed by the MSM before the Presidential election? - how old were the girls in the photos with Hunter? - how can the CCP leverage the above against Joe Biden, now that he's President? - who is buying Hunter Biden's "artworks" for up to $500,000 each, and who is overseeing the sales for conflicts of interest? They were supposed to be blind sales managed by the White House (lol), but Hunter showed up at the art gallery launch, so knows some of the possible buyers. None of the above should have happened in a Western democracy without jail time. After dealing with that, why did the Clinton Foundation receive over $2 billion from Saudi Arabia, and why did it stop when Hillary failed to win the Presidency?