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Disparaging COVID safety measures means it's propaganda now? I absolutely get disliking the economist (they are war mongering at every occasion), but criticism
by mardifoufs 3y ago
Disparaging COVID safety measures means it's propaganda now? I absolutely get disliking the economist (they are war mongering at every occasion), but criticism of COVID measures isn't some sort of weird agenda lol. It only makes sense to look back and see what went wrong, and if anything there is a huge lack of criticism of how it all went down.
Like I don't get it, would it have been propaganda if they praised COVID measures or?
- willcipriano 3y agoPeople are so conditioned to consume only propaganda that anything that isn't gives them extreme cognitive dissonance.
- green_man_lives 3y agoThere's plenty of propaganda for the other side, the difference is that it doesn't get posted to HN. I don't see the value of posting propaganda on HN. There is very little substance to this article. Propaganda doesn't mean "something I don't like" it means something with the primary goal of getting me to subscribe to some belief.
- green_man_lives 3y ago> Like I don't get it, would it have been propaganda if they praised COVID measures or? Yes, I am pointing out their bias. There is plenty of propaganda on the other side, but people aren't posting articles from Mother Jones or Salon or Breitbart on here. In an article about energy deaths a COVID comparison feels very shoe-horned in. Propaganda can be factual, nothing in this article was not factual, but it's still propaganda. I find that the primary purpose of The Economist is to be propaganda, it has little intellectual value. Which is the point of the rest of my comment.