What then? If we assume all publications of NG and state media are like that, then what sources of information are left?
@kravietz Thank you! @dump_stack
@kravietz Piping in with a laymanās view, I agree with dump_stack that (at least) watching propagandistic media on tv affects you even if you know itās propaganda. I donāt watch it anymore at all, just new channels that have popped up online. Fox News is dead to most all of the right too. [1/4] @dump_stack
@kravietz US journalists on television and print, along with both them and the average American Joe on social media are afraid to write the truth for fear of being cancelled. If they write anything just a little off, theyāre suspended and must apologize and correct their behavior. Weāre all being trained like seals balancing balls on our noses. [2/4] @dump_stack
@dump_stack I donāt write what I would about firearms because theyāre pushing red-flag laws through a corrupt Congress right now. Anything on social media like Ī¼ĪæĪ»ĻĪ½ Ī»Ī±Ī²Ī and someone will report you and they will come for your guns. My rhetoric is especially subdued about that since the governmentās announced theyāre tracking the hardware IDs on all social media. Silence even on Fediverse. [3/4] @kravietz
@dump_stack What we donāt have is that Iāve twice watched Putin do four-hour press conferences where journalists, often looking terrified with shaking legs, ask very difficult questions of him. And he answers them. For four hours. Without notes. But they can ask the questions. And he can answer them.
We donāt even get that. Just propogandist media and a non compos mentis President. [4/4] @kravietz
But you surely realize they are only asking questions agreed with Putin's team and he's got a whole team preparing brilliant answers? It's a show, the only purpose of which is to show he's in control.
@kravietz I thought the fact that they were quite obviously terrified meant they were real questions. Theyāre from different countries too, Georgia, etc. Were they just as scared as Biden theyād say one of the memorized words wrong? @dump_stack
I don't know about Biden but Putin is KGB officer, smoke and mirrors are literally his job. Last time anyone asked him a honest question was parliamentary commission when he wasn't president yet, but a suspect in a large scale corruption scandal. He apparently decided this disgrace is never going to happen again.
@kravietz Biden couldnāt even keep secret large payoffs from the Ukraine or a huge payoff from the CCP or that they were going to steal the election or what states they were going to steal.
I doubt anyone even lets Biden know a secret by this point. Itās not likely anyone even tells him whatās going on between naps. Weāre totally screwed. @dump_stack
@kravietz NG? @dump_stack