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I had to make an account just to point out that your analogy doesn't make any sense :D RT (like CNN) is a network (mostly) aligned with the interests of the power structure of its respective country. Chomsky is a dissident and critic of the power structure of his country, therefore broadly in disagreement with the CNN world view.

CNN Veritas videos aren’t from CNN. They are undercover videos that purport to show CNN’s biases.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/15/project_v...

What I don't understand is why people are claiming CNN doesn't have a bias: if a news media outlet exists, it is biased, and that is an immutable rule.

Which makes the use of the term "bias" worthless. I do see quite obvious differences in the bias of say fox (not the news section) vs cnn.

Fox just lazily omits facts and arguments that don't fit while cnn presents both sides most of the time. I do not care if the information is framed in a specific way since i have to make up my mind anyway.

Then there are real propaganda outlets like the state owned RT or http://www.globaltimes.cn/opinion/ .

I do think that making these distinctions is useful.

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