• protist@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    whereas achievements from Western nations rarely get this treatment

    I have to disagree, commercial news loves controversy and the negative, they always pull this shit, regardless of country. Even worse, what we have here is a clickbait headline that isn't even descriptive of the article

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Come on, you must see a ton of popsci articles like "This invention might end aging forever!" and "School teacher invents new green fuel" and "Why is California leading the world in [whatever]?"

      Their point is that Approved countries get fluff pieces like that while China gets, from comparable material, a source of criticism that is deemed important enough to put in the headline.

      • protist@mander.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Sure, US news doesn't paint the US with a broad brush, but it does paint France, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and pretty much every other country with a broad brush. Internally, commercial media does it to US states, cities, races, religions, political parties, and more

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Even worse, what we have here is a clickbait headline that isn't even descriptive of the article

      the point is that positive news out of China gets given a clickbait title that plays up the controversy while positive news from the west gets given a clickbait title that oversells the promise of the technology. why is this an observable trend in media, I wonder...