• @JaymesRS@literature.cafe
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    4 months ago

    That would be literally devastating if I had cited Wikipedia itself instead of using it as a way to point you to a long list of citations from far more authoritative sources without wasting my time typing them all out again.

    Good effort though.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      I’ve been watching the Five Eyes governments and Anglosphere corporate media try to squelch The Grayzone for years.

      It would be devastating if you were to read Inventing Reality or Manufacturing Consent.

      You know who else was on RT? Chris Hedges. Why was he there? Because he was right about Iraq’s supposed WMDs, so corporate media permanently shunned him. Meanwhile people who got it wrong, like Anderson Cooper, are still prominent corporate media figures, because they’ve proven to be reliable lap dogs. I mean, Cooper interned at the CIA.

      Corporate media obviously aren’t going to want to correct their coverage of Victoria Nuland & co’s Maidan coup.

    • @robinn_IV
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      4 months ago

      You didn't read a single reference on their Wikipedia page, just the fact that they're there is enough for you. Regardless, I fail to see any evidence of "misleading coverage," and "sympathetic coverage" is a non-issue except for the fact that these are "authoritarian regimes." What this means is unknown, since the main examples cited (Syria, China, and Venezuela) each have a much lower amt. of prisoners per-capita and in totality (significant because of China's population) than the U.S., and China has a significantly lower amt. of police per-capita.

    • Egon [they/them]
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      4 months ago

      Buddy you just cited Wikipedia. If you wanted me to believe you'd read the "long list of more authoritative sources" that the article contains, then you would have cited the articles instead of Wikipedia. This is the bare minimum you dumbass, you're below high school level right now.

    • Maoo [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      You did cite Wikipedia itself.

      Did... did you forget? Already?