• hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Media criticism is a great place to start. If you get them on board with:

    1. Outlets like CNN and the NYT have repeatedly carried water for the State Department, and
    2. That's a reflection of the fact that they are more interested in upholding the interests of capitalism than with any sort of impartial reporting,

    You can get them on board with a lot of history those outlets sweep under the rug. Manufacturing Consent is perfect for this -- recognizable author who isn't too radical, and it painstakingly documents how most reporting is biased.

    Starting smaller also works. There's a great Citations Needed episode on how local news just blindly prints whatever cops tell them.

    • MyAltUserNameIsCool [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I love Citations Needed. It’s why I ended up on this website after their subreddit got banned. I haven’t caught every episode. Do you happen to remember around when that episode came out or what it was called?

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-54-local-crime-reporting-as-racist-police-stenography

        :fidel-salute: to your taste in podcasts