Re:EU to Ban RT and Sputnik
by tsol on Sunday February 27, 2022 @03:06PM
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So who decides what a propaganda outlet is? Some was fox news is one. Some say MSNBC is propaganda. And some say all major news channels allow the narrative to be shifted by outside powers, and therefore qualify as propaganda
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Re:EU to Ban RT and Sputnik
by tablespoon on Sunday February 27, 2022 @04:35PM
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> So who decides what a propaganda outlet is?
I do.
If you find it tough to figure out, consider more context and your place in it.
Honestly, one of the things these propaganda outlets are pretty good at is flummoxing people who make judgements based on too little information. Either they get locked up in some "it's all the same, can't decide" trap [1], or they react exclusively to some misleading cherry-picking the outlet put in front of them.
[1] e.g. "RT is financed by a government and the BBC is financed by a government, SO THAT MEANS THEY"RE THE SAME AND SHOULD BE TREATED THE SAME!1!!"
Well, Fox and MSNBC aren't owned by a hostile foreign government, so there's that.
From Russia's perspective they are.
I don't think anyone in Russia thinks that Fox News or MSNBC are owned by the American government. Like, RT and Sputnik are government-funded foreign propaganda organs; a better comparison might be Radio Free Europe.