"a rapid jumble of opinion and falsehoods" is how the n y times described russian media coverage of the war in the ukraine in an article they ran yesterday...their experts analyzed "50 hours" of russian tlelvison to reach that conclusion...that the times would have individuals expert in "opinion and falsehoods" is not a surprise...there is no logical reason to believe that the times does not indulge in its own distortions...
indeed the effort they make to reassure me that they are not is almost shrill in tone and i find it less than convincing...the times is a corporate entity in business for profit, not the objective dissemination of fact...this applies to all corporate media...you will not be able to convince me that fox news isn't selling a product to a branded audience any more than the times is...this applies to any media outlet i can think of...
even national public radio...a perennial target of cryptofascist yahoo political assault is in it for the money...they hegemmonic culture insists that it be so...they all have editors and editors are not simply there to correct style...and then there's the editorial board and how much influence advertisers have over content..so...rusian media lie...so do those of the west...perhaps from different motivations...then again, profit is power and influence and power and influence lead to more profit...they are almost fungible...so might media be.
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