My eyes were practically bleeding while watching some local news coverage at a bar, fairly recently.
It was literally two geriatric fascists in cowboy hats yelling at each other over the image of a young black man with facial tattoos in an orange prison jumpsuit. The debate was whether the local PD had gone woke and become complicit in street crime or just needed another zillion dollars of additional funding to fight the urban menace.
Thanks Frieren!
Frieren should do to rich people what she does to demons!
Theyre one and the same
Sports coverage is not news; there’s always a sports segment in every ‘news’ program. Entertainment masquerading as news. Kill Rupert Murdoch and his progeny.
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If we discarded every source that had a liberal or capitalist slant, we would effectively have to stop reading 99% of Western media, and we’d be blinding ourselves to the narrative of the ruling class. We are adults with functioning brains and the capacity for critical analysis. We should be able to read a piece of liberal slop, identify the ideological framing, strip it away, and analyze the material conditions they are reporting on or trying to obscure.
You need to read the Wall Street Journal because it is the mouthpiece of the ruling class that tells you exactly what capital is thinking, what they are afraid of, and how they are strategizing to protect their interests. You cannot effectively dismantle an argument if you refuse to understand its internal structure and logic.
Running away from information because it doesn’t align with their worldview is what liberals do when they retreat into their MSNBC bubbles. We should be secure enough in our own position to read sources we abhor, understand them, and approach their claims from a position of knowledge. Ruthless criticism of all that exists includes reading sources like the wsj.
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That’s not what I’m saying at all. The first step to my perspective is to consider the framing they’re using and to think why they want to push a particular narrative. Nowhere did I say anything about assuming they’re being truthful. Although, in most cases western media uses more sophisticated techniques for distorting information than outright lying. It will be omission of facts, framing, and so on. This is an excellent book dissecting how US propaganda actually works. https://november8ph.ca/psychological-warfare-in-the-strategy-of-imperialism-v-l-artemov/
And you should also widen your media diet to include non western sources. These will have different biases and framings which you can contrast with what western media reports.
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You do realize Reuters has a strong western bias as well?
“you should read wider than western media”
“Yeah, that’s why I read this western media outlet”
Bruh
Reuters
reuters is not as neutral as you seem to think it is. i’ve seen people name the associated press too, but they are just as representative of bourgeois interests.
But not your bit, right?
Ah yes, me a famously rich person.
Cmon, we both know I didn’t refer to that
What are you referring to?
The socialist who posts a lot of news posts this. It’s not really that hard of a joke to get
Yogthos isn’t telling poor people to blame each other, but that the working classes need to collectively fight the bourgeoisie.
But he is spreading the message of the rich [news].
Are you suggesting that learning about current events is only something the rich should do?
“news” could be any new information over any medium and is as old as language and gossip and culture itself
The News™ is a manufactured product designed to control the masses
Are you suggesting we should just never post or discuss either?
