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Re: I don't even know if this is WOKE

Posted by diogenes on 2024-April-18 04:56:26, Thursday
In reply to Re: I don't even know if this is WOKE posted by xdsaz on 2024-April-17 22:43:26, Wednesday

Yes, but there is no such thing as an unbiased media source. The (nominally left-wing, but actually pro-Establishment) Guardian is also highly selective in its reportage. For example, in Britain a woman was arrested in March of 2023 for standing across the road from an abortion clinic, looking pensive, on the ground that she might be praying in her head, and praying outside abortion clinics is illegal (even though the clinic was closed and no one else was around, and there was no overt sign that the woman in question was praying). I only found this reported on generally execrable right wing sites. The BBC and the Guardian don't seem to have thought it worthy of mention. Yet it deserves reporting. The idea that the police should second guess what is going on people's heads and arrest them for having the wrong thoughts is rather sinister. (Fortunately, in this case, the charges were eventually dropped - though it took the police 6 months to do this.)

Furthermore, all news sources are capable of giving a slant to their stories even when they do report them. We all know that it is possible to write a piece of reportage on a given story that does not contain a single factually untrue statement, and yet is so constructed as to make one side seem obviously in the wrong.

The only solution is to keep an eye out for news stories from all sources, to be aware of the bias of the news platform, and to regularly check stuff with Al Jazeera!

diogenes

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