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davel , 4 months ago to worldnews in Kamala GASLIGHTS On Ceasefire As US Airdrops Gaza Aid

Most Lemmy news/politics comms have been predominantly text. AFAIK none of the lemmy.ml ones expressly prohibit videos, but some of the downvotes may be due to the fact that many of these posts are videos, and the click-baitiness of the YouTube algorithm may make it worse still.

davel , 4 months ago to worldnews in Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat

What do you imagine China is going to do to you from the other side of the world? Feed you targeted ads? Attack you with Havana Syndrome or turn you into a Manchurian Candidate via 5G?

davel , 4 months ago to programmerhumor in OS developer text books have no chill

Kill it with 9️⃣

davel , 4 months ago to worldnews in Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat

china under the bedUS scared

davel , 4 months ago to asklemmy in What exotic science fiction technology would you finance research into, if you had billions of dollars?

I’m convinced that, despite his denial, Isaac Asimov’s psychohistory was a Red Scare-dodging caricature of historical materialism / scientific socialism. I’d put my money there.

davel , 4 months ago to memes in Think about it

Nightmare fuel: e^πi^ = -1

davel , 4 months ago to worldnews in China's Current Account Surplus Is Likely Much Bigger Than Reported

Between this piece and the Heritage Foundation one, it seems the Blob is admitting some inconvenient truths for the purposes of ramping up the Cold War II.

davel , 4 months ago to worldnews in The New York Times should not be considered a reliable source of journalism.

But claiming the NYT is “unreliable” now, today, based on the actions of people who, if not dead are almost certainly retired today, is ridiculous.

That’s true: The paper’s symbiotic & collusive relationship with the capitalist class and the government is over 150 years old, so I don’t think it’s any more or less reliable now than it’s ever been.

davel , 4 months ago to worldnews in The New York Times should not be considered a reliable source of journalism.

Even NYT op-eds have to condemn Hamas in order to get printed. The range of allowable viewpoints is only as wide as the Overton window allows.

davel , 4 months ago to worldnews in The New York Times should not be considered a reliable source of journalism.

Joseph Kahn, the managing editor of the Times, is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, as are the CEOs of NPR & PBS. And those are the ones I know off the top of my head: en.wikipedia.org/…/Members_of_the_Council_on_Fore…

The Council of Foreign Relations is a place where the government and the capitalist class hash out the media’s agenda. On its founding, Walter Lippman was its head of research. The title of Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman’s Manufacturing Consent came from a quote in Lippmann’s book, .

davel , 4 months ago to worldnews in The New York Times should not be considered a reliable source of journalism.

It’s not great on domestic news, either, in that it slants in favor of the employer class and in opposition to the working class.

davel , 4 months ago to worldnews in The New York Times should not be considered a reliable source of journalism.

The people who own the NYT are not deceived by the government, they collude with the government. In the words of George Carlin, it’s one big club, and you ain’t in it.

davel , 4 months ago to worldnews in The New York Times should not be considered a reliable source of journalism.

But muh Media Bias/Fact Check says it checks out!

mediabiasfactcheck.com/contact/

Dave M. Van Zandt obtained a Communications Degree before pursuing a higher degree in the sciences. Dave currently works full time in the health care industry. Dave has spent more than 20 years as an arm chair researcher on media bias and its role in political influence.

Van Zandt is some hobbyist who was in the right place at the right time: the “post-truth” moment of Clinton’s loss to Trump and the string of Russiagate conspiracy theories and Kellyanne Conway’s alternative facts and the Cambridge Analytica hysteria.

The whole concept of the “left” or ”right“ “bias” being inversely correlated with factualness is garbage. These kinds of graphs, which try to convince us that centrism equals factualness, are garbage:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7dfc5791-c9a1-4952-a90c-b6c91314d0f7.jpeg

The core bias of corporate media is the bias of the capitalist class, but people like Van Zandt don’t seem to understand this.

The inner workings of corporate media were explained about forty years ago in Inventing Reality and Manufacturing Consent.
A five minute introduction: Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

davel , 4 months ago to worldnews in China’s fifth research station in Antarctica sparks concerns about its ambitions

Mr. President, we must not allow a penguin gap!

davel , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to worldnews in UK/US: Time to end prosecution of Julian Assange, UN expert says

Literally all journalists selectively release information. I think you’re parroting the flak against him.

Even the Global North’s own corporate media are calling for this nonsense to end.
An Open Letter from Editors and Publishers: Publishing is Not a Crime

The editors and publishers of:

• The New York Times
• The Guardian
• Le Monde
• DER SPIEGEL
• El Pais