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minus-squareDoug [he/him]@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoAll media is lying to you a large part of the time. Yet it’s only Western media you seem interested in calling out on it. On the other end most media is telling you part of the truth or telling the truth part of the time. They called it popular politics when I was in school
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·11 months agoBruv Western Media is the only media I can read. I’m American. We’re ignorant as shit. If it’s not in English I can’t do anything with it.
minus-squareDoug [he/him]@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThen learn another language. Change and grow. But if Western media is lying and it’s all you can read then how do you know it’s lying?
minus-squareblight [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·11 months agoThey often admit their lies years after the damage has already been done. We mistake this for accountability
minus-squareDoug [he/him]@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThat still leaves you with having no handle on what the truth is today, right now if it’s the only source of truth
minus-squaremarx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·11 months agoI haven’t consumed any Western corporate media content (that wasn’t being dunked on) in years. I’m still way too aware of what’s going on in the world and wish I knew less, tbh.
minus-squaresilent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·11 months agobecause there’s alternative analyses available. see the news megathread
All media is lying to you a large part of the time. Yet it’s only Western media you seem interested in calling out on it.
On the other end most media is telling you part of the truth or telling the truth part of the time.
They called it popular politics when I was in school
Bruv Western Media is the only media I can read. I’m American. We’re ignorant as shit. If it’s not in English I can’t do anything with it.
Then learn another language. Change and grow.
But if Western media is lying and it’s all you can read then how do you know it’s lying?
They often admit their lies years after the damage has already been done. We mistake this for accountability
That still leaves you with having no handle on what the truth is today, right now if it’s the only source of truth
I haven’t consumed any Western corporate media content (that wasn’t being dunked on) in years. I’m still way too aware of what’s going on in the world and wish I knew less, tbh.
because there’s alternative analyses available. see the news megathread