• edward@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    mediabiasfactcheck, the site that squashes two complex spectrums (left vs right, unbiased vs biased) into a one dimensional line, making no distinction between centrism and being unbiased.

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      1 year ago

      Yet certainly this has more nuance than that idiot who sees literally no difference between VOA, WaPo, BBC, and RT?

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        1 year ago

        Look up the concept of hyperbolic statements in conversation.

        All they were saying was that they don’t trust the Washington Post for foreign news. They weren’t literally putting WP in line with RT.

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          Washington Post is an american propaganda outlet when it comes to foreign policy articles. You might as well be linking VOA or RT.

          They are literally putting WP in line with RT. This statement is still wrong in exactly the way I’ve described numerous times here.

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            That quote is meant to be taken figuratively.

            Propaganda in the loosest definition just means reporting in a biased manner to push a political agenda. You can be 100% accurate with what you say and it still can be considered propaganda due to the manner in which it is presented.

            While WP or VoA, in contrast to RT, don’t outright lie or deceptively create fake stories, they do have a pro-USA bias. That’s why it’s a hyperbolic statement. It was just meant to elaborate on the distrust for the article.