When the news is "balanced" in an unbalanced world, it becomes an instrument of deception. This has made producing the news extremely difficult in an era of mass delusions and hyper-polarization.
I worry that the framing of this “war” against the “Kingdom of Lies” can obscure the fact that mainstream media does lie. It just lies more skillfully than people like Trump. Its lies have tremendous moral consequences, such as the 80 year ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the snuffing out of Palestinians lives and voices. So for the author to turn to mainstream media and say “you’re my ally in this war against The Kingdom of Lies”, it’s hard for me to see him as anything other than yet another pro-regime lemming, another fool.
It is easier to spread lies when articles do bothsidism. Like don’t you find annoying that most of known media spreading the IDF and Netenyaho statements that will all know are lies
It certainly is annoying. I wouldn’t mandate “bothsidesing” in general. Tell the truth. If that is the point of the article than I am in agreement. I just don’t like the mainstream media in particular.
I worry that the framing of this “war” against the “Kingdom of Lies” can obscure the fact that mainstream media does lie. It just lies more skillfully than people like Trump. Its lies have tremendous moral consequences, such as the 80 year ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the snuffing out of Palestinians lives and voices. So for the author to turn to mainstream media and say “you’re my ally in this war against The Kingdom of Lies”, it’s hard for me to see him as anything other than yet another pro-regime lemming, another fool.
It is easier to spread lies when articles do bothsidism. Like don’t you find annoying that most of known media spreading the IDF and Netenyaho statements that will all know are lies
It certainly is annoying. I wouldn’t mandate “bothsidesing” in general. Tell the truth. If that is the point of the article than I am in agreement. I just don’t like the mainstream media in particular.