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In the US there's long been the meme of watching "both sides" of the news IE cnn and fox and assuming the truth is somewhere in the middle. I think by now it's
by rnd0 4y ago
In the US there's long been the meme of watching "both sides" of the news IE cnn and fox and assuming the truth is somewhere in the middle. I think by now it's been established that this is a false assumption and that you simply end up with two different sets of lies intended to distract you from thinking about whatever.
Likewise, while it's obvious that whatever comes from the Russian state media is complete garbage I think it's safe to assume that most of the news we see here in the west is also distorted propaganda as well; to some degree, at least. If by omission if nothing else ...what they say may be true, but it's clear they're leaving a lot of things out.
In short; treat everything like Pravda.
- Nasrudith 4y agoWhat the hell is the "whatever" that everyone is convinced that the totality of human media efforts are supposed to be disstracting us from? Literal space aliens, literal demons, religion, communism, fear of death, fear of life, pollution, the coming fall of government, the apocalypse, and modern life being meaningless. Pardon the redundancies but the rhetoric is far more a rorsarch test or method of indexing than an objective truth. I have mostly seen it as a squid-in-mouth level of crazy personal assumptions projected onto everybody else by a fanatic to explain the impossibility that nobody else cares.