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It's even infecting the wider lemmy network! (lemmy.ml)

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

ingests 'facts' and narratives from seemingly different sources that just happen to be financially backed/owned by the same small group of people

no logical filtering or processing takes place before regurgitating them

"I'm a free thinker who does their own research!"

[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, the worlder preferred "bastions of journalism":

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world today, known for employing folks that need to pee in bottles to comply with Amazon's inhuman procedures or face losing their jobs, buys The Washington Post

"They will hold the truth and journalistic integrity in high regard, and I can certainly trust them to prioritise them before financial gain and anything that can be done to achieve it."

I SWIM IN THE SEA OF THE UNCONSCIOUS

[+] anon@lemmings.world -8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I am sorry but since when is German left leaning public broadcast the same as fox news?! I understand that sometimes some topics are generally over- or underreported, but putting these next to each other is nonsensical.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

public broadcast

Or, as we call it when it's a non-white country: "State propaganda outlet"

[–] anon@lemmings.world -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Funny that you tie that to the skin color of the people. Most people including me make the distinction based on the following criteria:

Does the government have direct control over the broadcast?
Is the channel allowed to criticize the government?
Is founding decided by the government?
Are you at risk for not having the same stance on a topic than the government?

In the case of Germany, all of these are not true. In the case of authoritarian regimes, they are. That is the key difference.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

So, a bunch of vague, unquantifiable, vibes based criteria, that, in practice, always end up meaning: