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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by lostlogin on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:18PM (#35544289)
You really believe that NPR and the BBC belong in the same basket as Russian and Chinese state media?
Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by woooooo on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:23PM (#35544395)
Fish don't know they're in water.

If you've been ingesting a narrative since middle school, and the BBC reinforces it, well that's just good neutral unbiased reporting.

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by lostlogin on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:41PM (#35544664)
I don’t regularly read the BBC or NPR. I have watched the BBC skirmish with government over their independence and it’s an active fight (see Gary Lineker fighter recently, interesting, on Twitter).

Do you see these fights for independence in Chinese and Russian news channels? And do you really think them similar to the BBC and NPR?

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by woooooo on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:43PM (#35544698)
You will never, ever see a mainstream western news org demonize the US the way they do to Russia and China routinely.

Are they the exact same? No, but they're not so different when you zoom out. You don't need explicit censorship when you can manufacture consent at the hiring and promotion stages.

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by lostlogin on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:49PM (#35544795)
Do you think the US, China and Russia similar?

I have a lot of criticism for the US, but the US can at least punish its rulers at the ballot box. The US isn’t chucking journalists out the window or vanishing them on a regular basis. Objectively, it’s hard say the three are similar, as two of those countries deserve more criticism. They are not the same when you zoom out.

I am not an American.

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by woooooo on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:55PM (#35544873)
I could criticize or compliment all 3 depending on the topic or my mood.

If we're so much better in the west, maybe we can hold ourselves accountable and question our own biases.

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by lostlogin on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:34PM (#35545494)
If we are so much worse, why isn’t accountability and criticism a thing in a Russia and China?
Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by roflyear on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:36PM (#35544594)
It's always telling when people with narratives to push don't directly answer questions.
Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by alfor on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:59PM (#35544936)
Exactly, I have been trying to explain it to people here (Québec/Canada) Here people believe the CBC is an impartial view of reality, it’s through that filter they see all the events of the world.

Information that contradict their narrative become disinformation or conspiration. Or you get labeled racist/transphobe/Trump supporter at the first doubt

Give me little hope for our country at the moment.

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by d23 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:16PM (#35545194)
It's not that it's impartial or unbiased. It's that it's not an editorial arm for the state. The United States doesn't even have a centralized, consistent state-run party that would exercise consistent pressure on NPR to publish certain stories or frame them in a certain way. It's an absurd comparison to link these to Chinese or Russian state-affiliated media.
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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by d23 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:45PM (#35546581)
The burden on is on you to provide evidence for your claims, not for me to go fishing for them.

Regardless, I doubt whatever you have in mind is anything similar to an authoritarian regime that literally murders critical journalists and poisons opposition politicians. It is an absurd comparison.

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by mardifoufs on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:46PM (#35548097)
It doesn't have to be on the level of russia or china to be bad. What a weird arbitrary goalpost.
Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by alfor on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:37PM (#35549252)
Russia and China didn’t start that way, it’s a process.