Popular contradictions today: It's a human right to dress and act like any sex one chooses. It's evil and horrible to dress and act like a different race.
Global warming is the biggest threat to mankind. Coming into the office is more important.
Flying around the globe is to talk down to others who are doing more about global warming earns praise.
So basically you picked a side and trust only what news agree with your beliefs?
also they got completely outlawed by the Russian regime, so they can't possibly get any advertising from Russian firms.
Nope.
There were enough articles with outright lies to never believe anything from them until proven by numerous other, independent sources.
The job of a news source it not to criticize, or not criticize, the annexation of Crimea. They're not a political party. Nobody but their mom really wants to know their private opinion.
The job of a news source is to provide news. All the news and articles Meduza produces follows the same pattern, where they would arrive at a predetermined conclusion regardless of the facts they are discussing, and the train of thought would go from A to B in a reasonably short route. If it's hard to derive the conclusion from some facts, they will be skipping reporting these where possible. If it's very convenient to derive the conclusion for unproven facts, they will be using these eagerly.
Propaganda is annoying to read, especially if you know you will disagree with their conclusion, which you obviously know in advance.
Yes, you will be living in a tiny bubble. But at least you do not get to read propaganda pieces trying to derive prefabricated conclusions out of irrelevant small events. If anything large happens, you are going to hear of it earlier or later.
If you really want balanced coverage, choose a source from the other side which is so blatantly propagandist that you can have good laughs instead of grinding your teeth. I am reading The Guardian for that purpose.
Perhaps there are better ways to consume your news, but I don't know these.
> Yes, you are living in a tiny bubble.
How is that a tiny bubble?
> It is the century XXI, and the mainstream way seems to be subscribing to Telegram channels whose vibe resonates with you. Yes, you will be living in a tiny bubble.
I believe they mean "the mainstream way" puts you into a tiny bubble, but they go on to say:
> But at least you do not get to read propaganda pieces trying to derive prefabricated conclusions out of irrelevant small events. If anything large happens, you are going to hear of it earlier or later.
Thus, I believe they were advocating for a tiny bubble -- not accusing the previous commenter of being in a tiny bubble.
-> restricting what journalists may write
-> claiming the public has no interest in editorial opinion
-> labeling dissent as propaganda
The remark above is all three.
Which is kind of hilarious as US news sources are far less neutral than most of those politically colored newspapers!
I.e. US republicans most often won't believe CNN and US democrats most often won't believe Fox.
The point here is, there are plenty of topics on which CNN and Fox coverage is very very similar: off the top of my head events in Israel and Taiwan
And on those topics, plenty of people just "trust the consensus" (or what appears to be the consensus, in western media)
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/out-of-bounds-how-media...
They're politicking 101 made into 24/7 news media panic.
They're both charlatans and peddlers of lies and cheap tricks; they engage in propaganda and employ journalists who seem to believe that they're anything other than foot soldiers to stir up the masses against XYZ.
Everyone knows Fox News is trash, it's laughable when some continue to argue that CNN isn't.
Where XYZ can be anything, depending on which way the wind is blowing, sometimes it's each other, sometimes it's internal to the US, sometimes it's external
There's no need to be condescending.