If he had been working for the British state-controlled media organization the British Broadcasting Corporation, would you still call him a journalist?
Yes, because the BBC hasn’t been caught repeatedly coordinating with state intelligence services to spread disinformation, setting up astroturf campaigns to spread misinformation, funnelling money to “influencers” to destabilize governments, secretly operating media outlets under other names in other countries, etc.
Ok, so double standards it is, then. You like the BBC, so you ignore all the shady shit they do, but you don’t like RT so you highlight their problems, and hold both to different standards.
You need to read about critical thinking. It will make your world a much less confusing place.
Irrelevant. The point is that you believe you get to decide, based on some convenient criteria of your own choosing,which news outlets can call their workers journalists, and which ones will be classed as propagandists and therefore lose the right to safety from military strikes.
Effectively you think you should get the power of life and death over people who are putting their lives at risk to report from war zones.
You are a coward, decreeing all this from behind an anonymous profile on the Internet.
If he had been working for the British state-controlled media organization the British Broadcasting Corporation, would you still call him a journalist?
Yes, because the BBC hasn’t been caught repeatedly coordinating with state intelligence services to spread disinformation, setting up astroturf campaigns to spread misinformation, funnelling money to “influencers” to destabilize governments, secretly operating media outlets under other names in other countries, etc.
Ok, so double standards it is, then. You like the BBC, so you ignore all the shady shit they do, but you don’t like RT so you highlight their problems, and hold both to different standards.
You need to read about critical thinking. It will make your world a much less confusing place.
“The shady shit they do”?
Do tell.
Irrelevant. The point is that you believe you get to decide, based on some convenient criteria of your own choosing,which news outlets can call their workers journalists, and which ones will be classed as propagandists and therefore lose the right to safety from military strikes.
Effectively you think you should get the power of life and death over people who are putting their lives at risk to report from war zones.
You are a coward, decreeing all this from behind an anonymous profile on the Internet.
C’mon, do tell.
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