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I used to generally read most news, I didn't particularly care for bias because I was reading aggregates. You get multiple links and the bias becomes visible an
by incomingpain 4y ago
I used to generally read most news, I didn't particularly care for bias because I was reading aggregates. You get multiple links and the bias becomes visible and handled. It was amusing to see how some news agencies simply dont report the news if it hurts their side. Once you see this happen, their reputation drops quite a lot and future news articles are taken with a grain of salt. Both sides do this, but it really lets you weed out the political activists from the journalists. Sadly the STEM movement has robbed most of the good people from being journalists, so this ratio is getting worse.
The freedom protest in Ottawa this year is what broke me. The absolute propaganda which was published against the protest was beyond shocking to me. Truck drivers tend to be sikh in Canada; calling a bunch of brown people a bunch of nazis? wtf?
It was the end of covid restrictions; 90% of the USA had dropped restrictions. Majority of europe had dropped. Canada was meanwhile increasing. A protest was certain to occur.
If I were PM, I'd go get on their stage and talk to them with reasonable position. I wouldn't be obligated to jump instantly but if you were to say, ok, restrictions drop in a month. Sure wipes out the protest. Instead they never got an audience with even a low level staffer? The media and government treated the protest as if they were nazis, there are no nazis in Canada. Absolutely ridiculous. The government showed their hand and it's clear to me the bought and paid for media is simply an extension of the government. Willing to publish government propaganda? I have no interest in reading any of their "news".