RE: NY TIMES Publishes CIA Propaganda On Venezuela
April 8, 2019 at 7:28 am
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2019 at 7:29 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(April 8, 2019 at 7:26 am)Cepheus Ace Wrote:(April 8, 2019 at 6:50 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Because uninformed and unaccountable amateur youtube vloggers telling you what they reckon to be true, from the comfort of their basements - that's not journalism. Without this so called "mainstream media" (like that's a singular entity, somehow) everyone's source of news will be their preferred facebook bot spewing propaganda, that an algorithm decided is right for their political and social views.
Newspapers and TV networks are obviously problematic, but at least they have addresses and people who can lose their jobs, if caught lying. I don't see why I should trust some random guy on social media to tell me "how things really are".
and how is mainstream media any different?
(April 8, 2019 at 6:50 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Newspapers and TV networks are obviously problematic, but at least they have addresses and people who can lose their jobs, if caught lying.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
