The :citations-needed: boys seem like good kids, but listening to them, they haven't completely eliminated their :LIB: :brainworms: .

One manifestation of this is that they seem to be deliberately avoiding a China episode, on the eve of a new cold war and in the middle of a propaganda storm. It appears that Adam has written many articles debunking anti-China stuff, so it doesn't look like it's bias. Please offer your speculation on why there's no episode of CN about it in the comments.

Anyone got any thoughts?

  • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    You need to better understand the syllabus of the podcast. They don’t do general episodes like “everything the US media is lying to you about X”; thats youtube clickbait. They cover how the US media lies to you and why they do so. At best, China episode would be a news brief about xiangxan and zenz. But it wouldn’t really teach the listeners anything that hasn’t been covered in other episodes and so would indistinguishable from basic pro-china indoctrination.

    They do and have several times, and covering the specific ways the US media lies and misleads about China isn't pro-China indoctrination. They also do actual news briefs on the show, but that's beside the point.

    As for the DPRK, of course the US has been strangling them for years. That's my point - it wasn't some kind of new thing, so I'm not sure "pressing and imminent danger" applies so much. The DPRK wasn't going to collapse any more than it was the year before, or the year after. There was Nuclear saber-rattling and media attention, but that's also nothing new and is similar to the increased China coverage.

    Your point that China probably isn't going to suffer nearly as much is completely fair, though. When I said consequences of conflict would be much, much larger, I meant the international ramifications of a new cold war. Obviously a hot war is out of the question.

    Media bias against China is massive and works in a few specific ways, just like with the DPRK and Iran. It's a perfectly reasonable subject for an episode, and your contention that only harassed underdogs deserve defending against slander (and that defense against slander is indoctrination) is extremely strange.