• Shatur@lemmy.ml
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        For example, it’s when they talk about how they’re “liberating” Ukrainian people. Here are some of the recent posts from the OP:

        Do they oppose the US? Sure. But are they freeing Ukrainian people? Hell no - they’ve been suffering for 4 years.

        It’s like saying “America is just helping Iranian people to overthrow their government”. They don’t care about Iranian people at all.

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          They are freeing Russian-Ukrainians in Ukraine.
          Those have been suffering for 12 years.

          Ukraine had a coup and the new leader decided to oppress the Russian-Ukrainians.
          Zelensky presented himself as a peace candidate opposing the warmongering corrupt government,
          but did the opposite once in power.

          Large parts of Russia have been given to Ukraine in the past during the Soviet times,
          ironically to prevent invasion of both Russia and Ukraine from Western powers.
          Russia wants those areas back and those areas want Russia back.
          The Russian-Ukrainians in Donetsk and Lugansk Oblasts
          tried doing an independence referendum before the war,
          but were shot and killed at the polling station.

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            I’m not a westerner. But TASS and RT are like Fox News in the US. Those are simply bad sources.

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              Your comment reveals a lack of media literacy. There is a fundamental difference between Russian outlets like TASS and RT, which are state-controlled, and Fox News, which is corporate-owned. State media acts as the direct voice of the government, whereas corporate media answers to advertisers and owners. This makes the bias in state media far more explicit regarding national interests; their agenda is transparent. Conversely, Fox News still operates within a framework of journalistic standards and market competition. It contains valuable context depending on the situation, so dismissing it entirely is a mistake

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                I know this. I just don’t think state-controlled media is much different from corporate media under oligarchy. US don’t have state media (edit: state-owned, not just state-funded) as far as I know, but if they were, those media would simply change bias toward the ruling party.

                I mentioned Fox News because they feel similar in spirit: conservative and usually not trustworthy.

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                  State media is biased towards it’s ruling party/class and therefore not trustworthy. I’ll assume whatever media source that confirms my bias is trustworthy

                  Sounds like an echo chamber

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                  US don’t have state media

                  PBS, NPR, CSPAN, VoA, RadioFree, etc

                  Parenti and Chomsky to some degree argue that private corporate media is closely aligned to state interest, due to its intertwining with intelligence services