https://www.rt.com/news/497293-twitter-label-state-media-officials/
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Twitter left a sizable loophole for the US and friendly nations, explaining that “state-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, will not be labeled.”
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Of course only white westerners have the skull shape capable of maintaining that editorial independence.
I wonder what will happen to the state financing if they use that editorial independence to piss off those in power.
Probably nothing will happen to the funding. However, the editor will die in a tragic car crash from two bullet holes in his back.
True.
At least now more people openly challenge the idea that billionaire-owned media is "free press".
SCMP is Hong Kong right?
Pyongyang Times is good. They do some legitimately good anti-imperial and solidarity stuff as well as interesting domestic pieces about industry.
They get most of their stuff from http://kcna.kp which has an English version. The PDFs are available for free at the bottom of their page (Pyongyang Times) and it's pretty well formatted.
Until 2016 it was owned by News Corp, so Alibaba is an improvement.
I didn't know SCMP was Hong Kong, but that explains why their takes are typically more liberal than the Global Times or CGTN.
I included them because they've done some decent reporting recently and have been unfairly marginalized as being a CCP mouthpiece.
In effect, Alibaba has taken Hong Kong’s English-language paper of record since the days of British rule and put it on the leading edge of China’s efforts to project soft power abroad. Every day, The Post churns out dozens of articles about China, many of which seek to present a more positive view of the country. As it does, critics say it is moving away from independent journalism and pioneering a new form of propaganda.
Dope! I wanted to include a DPRK news source, but I wasn't familiar with any.
There's also the Granma for Cuba.
Cuba and DPRK have a ton of solidarity with each other. It's kinda cool how as all the rest fell, their bond just grew stronger.
Keep in mind that virtually every state-media outlet claims editorial independence, regardless of all the evidence to the contrary.
For example, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, Open Technology Fund, Voice of America, Current Time TV, Alhurra, Radio Sawa, and Radio Televisión Martí are all part of the US Agency for Global Media (formerly known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors), which requires its outlets through its top broadcasting standards to be “consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States” along with its broadcasting principle of “The capability to provide a surge capacity to support United States foreign policy objectives during crises abroad”.
USAGM’s CEO is appointed by the U.S. President. The current CEO is Kelu Chao, who was appointed by Biden and has been reinstalling many of the USAGM executives at Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe that were purged by the former CEO Michael Pack (Trump's appointee).
That's what makes Twitter's justification so laughably credulous. It's like what a child under the age of innocence would believe.
"But these guys told me they were good though."
One of the only place you'll hear about the OPCW leaks reported in the mainstream media though.
