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Tonkarz t1_iy5pg61 wrote

Reply to comment by DennisHakkie in Media houses demand that the United States refrain from prosecuting Assange by That_Teach_9224

Of course the difference between real journalism and raw propaganda is incredibly important.

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DennisHakkie t1_iy5qolg wrote

Like, a good example would be about the Yakuza in the early to mid 90’s. The journalism was there, it just wasn’t published because A) everyone was afraid of them and B) they lined everyone’s pockets not to write about what they did.

Good journalism isn’t propaganda, that isn’t journalism. Every idiot with a typewriter can make propaganda

Flipside, most news has to be sexy now because of social media. Every time there’s a mass shooting somewhere you read the last messages or see a video victims sent to their loved ones, it’s insane. I personally try to only consume text only news nowadays because of that

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