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MrPandaRabbiton U.S. Orders Al Jazeera to Register as a Foreign Agent

True, perhaps I am wrong in my classification. Maybe not fair to say WaPo is conservative. And The Atlantic does give space to neo-liberal ideas. It’s very biased by how and which stories have stuck in my mind from these sources.

MrPandaRabbiton U.S. Orders Al Jazeera to Register as a Foreign Agent

Thanks, will definitely try them out. I find The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, ProPublica, and maybe controversially, The Intercept do good primary source journalism in the US.

MrPandaRabbiton U.S. Orders Al Jazeera to Register as a Foreign Agent

Personally, Al Jazeera English has been a valuable source of counter propaganda to the hegemonic western media companies I usually end up getting my news from (NYT, Guardian, Atlantic, etc. on the liberal end and WaPo, BBC, etc. on the more neutral/conservative end).

I think it’s fair to say they are more directly aligned with Qatar and don’t do as good a job criticizing their owners as John Oliver with ATT. But, I cannot find anyone, not even BBC, that does as good a job at covering grassroots organization efforts and local stories from South America, Africa, the middle-east (particularly Palestinian stories), South Asia, and parts of East Asia.

It has been refreshing to see humanizing perspectives of people who are usually cast as ‘the other’ or ‘backwards’ implicitly or explicitly in western media.

I wonder if Australian, European, or Israeli news/media companies ever have to register as foreign agents.

MrPandaRabbiton FB refused to take down hate speech to do business in India

This is the original article but its pay-walled: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-hate-speech-india-poli...

This coupled with the recent analysis by Ben Thompson of stratechery here: https://stratechery.com/2020/antitrust-politics/ makes me feel very uncomfortable with having any relationship with facebook. Should I passively protest and quit or actively try to change things?