Re:On Being Disappeared
by the_af on Monday March 28, 2022 @09:24AM
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> If we agree that Fox News is unreliable when reporting on Republicans, does it make sense to expect them to be objective in reporting on Democrats? Does it make sense to expect them to be objective in reporting on Ukraine and Russia?
Two things: Reps vs Dems is obviously two sides of the same coin, so I don't think your example works. You probably meant trusting Fox News is objective about sports or medicine or other unrelated topics.
However, I will agree with you it still makes sense that everything Fox News reports on is permeated by their political stance; e.g. there are obvious political aspects to medicine and health (because of enacted policies that happen to be partisan, or touchy topics such as abortion laws, or healthcare, or the myriad of things that are touchy subjects in the US).
But it doesn't matter whether I think Fox News is reliable on any given topic, what matters is: do I think they should be deplatformed in most of the Western world, removed from YouTube and access severely hindered or completely restricted for most of their audience? No, 100% no. It's for me to watch Fox News and decide they are crap. Make it available. Let me decide. Do you want to plaster all over Fox News streams that they are "partially funded by this or that corporation" or "aligned to this or that political party" -- sure, go ahead. But let me watch and decide for myself.
> Does it make sense to expect [Russia Today] to be objective in reporting on Ukraine and Russia?
I don't think they are objective in the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and I wouldn't trust them on that subject (still, I'd like to see, unfiltered, what Russian media is saying about it. Not what the West reports that Russian media is saying, which is always filtered). But RT and affiliated channels also reported on Latin America, a subject I know better -- I live there -- and I know for a fact their reporting was good; better than most US media. And it also got blocked/removed.
Two things: Reps vs Dems is obviously two sides of the same coin, so I don't think your example works. You probably meant trusting Fox News is objective about sports or medicine or other unrelated topics.
However, I will agree with you it still makes sense that everything Fox News reports on is permeated by their political stance; e.g. there are obvious political aspects to medicine and health (because of enacted policies that happen to be partisan, or touchy topics such as abortion laws, or healthcare, or the myriad of things that are touchy subjects in the US).
But it doesn't matter whether I think Fox News is reliable on any given topic, what matters is: do I think they should be deplatformed in most of the Western world, removed from YouTube and access severely hindered or completely restricted for most of their audience? No, 100% no. It's for me to watch Fox News and decide they are crap. Make it available. Let me decide. Do you want to plaster all over Fox News streams that they are "partially funded by this or that corporation" or "aligned to this or that political party" -- sure, go ahead. But let me watch and decide for myself.
> Does it make sense to expect [Russia Today] to be objective in reporting on Ukraine and Russia?
I don't think they are objective in the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and I wouldn't trust them on that subject (still, I'd like to see, unfiltered, what Russian media is saying about it. Not what the West reports that Russian media is saying, which is always filtered). But RT and affiliated channels also reported on Latin America, a subject I know better -- I live there -- and I know for a fact their reporting was good; better than most US media. And it also got blocked/removed.