Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by throw7482625 on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:12PM
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That’s literally the definition of propaganda.
Why is it so difficult for Americans to believe that the US engages in a war of propaganda against countries it labels as “adversaries”? [1]
[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...
Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by creato on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:48PM
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I think the disconnect here is that at least for a large part of RFA/RFE's history, simply broadcasting fair and accurate news was effective "propaganda".
Whether that's still true today or not is not something that anyone here is going to agree on.
Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by pessimizer on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:13PM
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They never "simply" did this. They often did this, when the truth was good news for them, but so does RT.
Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by impalallama on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:05PM
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The "Truth" (or facts presented in a very specific way) is a incredibly effective form of propaganda. You think foreign governments like Chin haven't been using the storming of the United States Capitol as a means to demonstrate the US's weakness or incompetence?
Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by reaperducer on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:16PM
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No one said that the U.S. doesn't engage in propaganda. But RFA News isn't it.
Why is it so difficult for Americans to believe
Suggesting that "Americans" suffer from a lack of introspection reveals your own biases. 350 million people. 350 million different worldviews.
Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by jjcc on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:50PM
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So in your view as one of 350 million, RFA is only(or mainly) set up for providing news to brainwashed Chinese people but not promoting democracy and universal human rights value?
Re:China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group ...
by reaperducer on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:06PM
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I said no such thing. You should not make assumptions about other people.
RFA isn't part of the CIA. It's part of U.S. Agency for Global Media. From Wikipedia:
an independent agency of the United States government which operates various state-run media outlets.[2] It describes its mission, "vital to US national interests", to "inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy"[3] and in accordance with the "broad foreign policy objectives of the United States".[4] USAGM supervises Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio y Televisión Martí, Radio Free Asia, and Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa.