Ukraine

[Coss]

4 hours ago, My Penis is hungry said:

for example being allowed to still use frozen accounts to pay interests payments so as to avoid defaults I hadn't seen widely discussed in the west.

That popped up today on MSNBC.

3 hours ago, Mekong said:

Basically News Agencies should be impartial and Newspapers print lies.

I'd go further and say, all News should be impartial. After all, they are supposed to be reporting what happened. If they wanna opine, label that bit as opinion.

Mind you, then you'd need functionally literate readers.

[My Penis is hungry]

I read a quote last week, it basically said that all news is now becoming biased and we should be careful what we read

 

from 1851

[Mekong]

27 minutes ago, Coss said:

That popped up today on MSNBC.

I'd go further and say, all News should be impartial. After all, they are supposed to be reporting what happened. If they wanna opine, label that bit as opinion.

Mind you, then you'd need functionally literate readers.

But there is, either bias to appease the owners and/ advertisers, or the demography of the readership be it the Bowler hat wearing Times and Telegraph readers to the Bobble Hat wearing Sun and Mirror readers.

There is “Mainstream Bias” where by every media outlet is reporting the same thing, Sensationalism which favours the exceptional over the mundane, and so on.

My favourite is “Missing White Woman Syndrome” where by a young middle class white female is deemed more News worthy than a working class and/or  black male.

[My Penis is hungry]

It's a business not a charity or public service.

 

And it's been that way since the beginning

 

Only very few outlets have luxury of being able to be independent but even then they face scrutiny

[Mekong]

I missed this one

TIME calls Kakhovka dam collapse 'Ukraine's Chernobyl'

Link

[Coss]

Yes, about as helpful, as pointing out that the war in Ukraine, is becoming "Ukraine's War".

 

[Mekong]

A Russian soldier is leaving for Ukraine and is saying goodbye to his wife. He tells her that he is off to war to fight the war against the US and NATO in Ukraine.

A year later, he returns on leave. She asks him how the war is going for Russia. He answers, “Terrible, we’ve lost our best equipment and weapons, lost our best commanders, most of our best troops are dead or wounded, we are starving, and our replacements in equipment, weapons, and personnel are next to useless.”

“That’s horrible,” the wife responds. “What about the losses of the US and NATO?”

The soldier looks dejected and responds, “They haven’t shown up yet”.

[Mekong]

[bust]

 

[Mekong]

He also denied saying that he said the EU was screwing America one day after saying the EU was screwing America, dementia really is setting in