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  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    yall mf really posting news.com.au articles?

    (this is the cental website of all of Murdoch's australian newspapers - you've basically linked fox but unfiltered)

        • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          That's just the front page I'll need to read the whole article to find the nuggets of truth.

          Seriously though. Reading opposing viewpoints is good for you. If you only ever consume media that you agree with you are living in an echo chamber. How will be unable to recognize when your trusted sources are wrong when you don't practice analysing journalism? More than half of "leftist" commentators take a 50-100% wrong view on the war in Ukraine while many Conservatives are doing excellent analysis if you pick out the occasional brain worm.

          • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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            2 years ago

            I think there's a difference between reading opposing viewpoints for little kernels of truth and believing even a single word on the aggregator site for all of Murdoch's News Corp tabloids in australia. I know it says it's Australia's Leading News Source, but it's genuinely on the same level as the National Enquirer or the Sun.

            • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
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              2 years ago

              genuinely on the same level as the National Enquirer or the Sun.

              This is patently false and your instance otherwise just proves you aren't arguing in good faith or are simply ignorant.

              Every News company has shitty takes. The Guardian is just better at hiding their shitty takes while manufacturing consent for neoliberalism and neocolonialism. They are all garbage and you have to sift through them all. Furthermore they all give insight into the mind of our opponents.

              • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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                2 years ago

                I don't know what your thing about the guardian is, I don't like them either. But that doesn't change the fact that you're trying to die on this hill defending a lifestyle article from an online tabloid, about a weirdo crank UFOlogist talking out his ass for the hundredth time.

                This is not a critical, underreported story being brought to light in a conservative newspaper that we're smearing just because it's a conservative source. This is a story about a sad, lonely old man begging for attention and only getting it from clickbait farms. Touch some grass, comrade.

                • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  Sure the story itself is silly and stupid but it does have useful information. This story shows the rot within american academia and the quality of hiring practices of the US Government.

                  Just because News.com prints trash like this doesn't mean the entirety of the site is bereft of any useful information as I originally said.

                  Touch some grass, comrade.

                  god that's cringe. go back to :reddit-logo: they probably still think this sort of thing is clever there.

            • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
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              2 years ago

              You don't sift through news media and disregard the bias? Let me guess you believe every word printed in The Guardian and then you call me a lib.