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In reply to the discussion: Why bother posting Russia Today videos anymore? [View all]tech3149
(4,452 posts)The thing is that you realize the bias. RT and Al-Jazeera report on stories with a broader scope that ANYTHING we get from US commercial media. They also report on many more important stories.
Have you ever followed This is Hell? The host does a four hour show of long format interviews with people who would never get a platform on any commercial media. One of the main reasons is they actually know something about the subject and can take the time to really dive into the weeds to explain it.
One of the things that really demonstrates the difference between US commercial media and what the rest of the world sees and thinks was what the host called the Nine Circles of Hell.
He would post the nine most important news stories he found from worldwide media that were truly important and then comment on the fluff that was presented by the network TV in the US. The US media in all formats doesn't even provide us with junk food news, it's just toxic bile.
The thing with outlets like RT and AJAM is they were demonized in the US as propaganda even before they went on the air. That was just playing the ref's. Any information outlet that challenges the US-centric story line just has to be trying to bend our brains.
The fact that US media is privately owned doesn't preclude it from selling a story that is in no way representative of the truth. They got big money and want to protect it.
I sort of think one of the problems with alternative news sources in the US is that those sources challenge the dominance of information as presented by US media. Ever hear of Operation Mockingbird?
Think of media in the US as another aspect of the "full spectrum dominance" that seems to have infected Washington think for way too long.