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>Everything the mainstream media says is a lie. You've lost credibility completely with this sentence. While I'd agree that many news outlets have their biases

>Everything the mainstream media says is a lie. You've lost credibility completely with this sentence. While I'd agree that many news outlets have their biases, some hugely so, saying everything they say is a lie is just categorically wrong. Many news outlets like Reuters and the PA have business models based around factual reporting for others.

ihatepython 4y ago
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- braymundo 4y ago
  You just parroted russian propaganda. It tells everything one needs to know about you.
bakuninsbart 4y ago
Calling everything a lie is certainly wrong, but glossing over biases in publications like Reuters is also a big mistake. Fact-based reporting can still communicate a wrong picture by deciding what and how much to report on something, and how the tone is set. To give a random example of this, in 2020 Australian soldiers were caught murdering and torturing Afghanis. In a "gloaty" response, the Chinese foreign minister retweeted a caricature on the topic made by a Chinese artist. [0] From what I could find, Reuters wrote 3 articles on the topic of war crimes committed by Australian forces, with a very balanced and careful tone [1], and at least 8 articles on the tweet, consistently calling the caricature a "fake image" while not even showing the picture. Not only is there an obvious association between "fake image" and "fake news", apparently twitter drama was also deemed more important than the actual investigation into war crimes. [0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8999917/China-attacks-Australia-vile-fake-image-soldier-Afghan-boy.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8999917/China-attac... [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-defence/australian-special-forces-suspected-of-39-unlawful-killings-in-afghanistan-general-idUSKBN27Y32J?edition-redirect=in https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-defence/austral... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-china/australia-demands-apology-from-china-after-fake-image-posted-on-social-media-idUSKBN28A07Y https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-china/australia...

ihatepython 4y ago

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braymundo 4y ago
You just parroted russian propaganda. It tells everything one needs to know about you.

bakuninsbart 4y ago

Calling everything a lie is certainly wrong, but glossing over biases in publications like Reuters is also a big mistake. Fact-based reporting can still communicate a wrong picture by deciding what and how much to report on something, and how the tone is set. To give a random example of this, in 2020 Australian soldiers were caught murdering and torturing Afghanis. In a "gloaty" response, the Chinese foreign minister retweeted a caricature on the topic made by a Chinese artist. [0] From what I could find, Reuters wrote 3 articles on the topic of war crimes committed by Australian forces, with a very balanced and careful tone [1], and at least 8 articles on the tweet, consistently calling the caricature a "fake image" while not even showing the picture. Not only is there an obvious association between "fake image" and "fake news", apparently twitter drama was also deemed more important than the actual investigation into war crimes. [0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8999917/China-attacks-Australia-vile-fake-image-soldier-Afghan-boy.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8999917/China-attac... [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-defence/australian-special-forces-suspected-of-39-unlawful-killings-in-afghanistan-general-idUSKBN27Y32J?edition-redirect=in https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-defence/austral... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-china/australia-demands-apology-from-china-after-fake-image-posted-on-social-media-idUSKBN28A07Y https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-china/australia...