• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    OK yeah but every major “news” channel is like this.

    Claims that AJ is exceptionally bad are often motivated by imperialism, islamophobia, zionism, etc.

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      19 hours ago

      Well, until now almost all articles I read in AJ are well contrastable, less biased as much other western media.

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      20 hours ago

      I don’t think I ever said they were particularly bad… just stating facts here. The opinion that “every major news channel is like this” however is troubling. All news channels have their influences, you just have to identify what they are and adjust critical thinking accordingly.

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      20 hours ago

      OK yeah but every major “news” channel is like this

      That’s literally “whataboutism”.

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        18 hours ago

        Ignoring real censorship in the UK because the originating nation of the news source also has censorship… is whataboutism.

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          18 hours ago

          Not at all. I agree with the premise as I said so there was no whataboutism in there. I merely pointed out that a news source from a nation that allows nothing even vaguely approaching what the UK has, to be ironic.