• figaro@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    You are saying that as a journalist from, idk, some reputable journalism company, I can go to Xinjiang, talk to the government, and then have free access to tour the facilities on my own schedule and interview whomever I want?

    And yes, I agree, the US government sucks and has done bad things.

    • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      You are saying that as a journalist from, idk, some reputable journalism company, I can go to Xinjiang, talk to the government, and then have free access to tour the facilities on my own schedule and interview whomever I want?

      As much as you can do that in any country, yeah. There's no country on earth where a journalist can just wonder around government facilities when ever they like and get interviews with whoever they like on demand.

      And yes, I agree, the US government sucks and has done bad things.

      That's not my point; my point is that the US government has and does lie about other countries, and it's media repeats those lies. And that the "their not being transparent!" attack was one of the ways they spread the lie of WMDs in Iraq.