• Sepia@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    This was originally reported by Reuters as someone already said. We should add that The South China Morning Post is a Chinese state-controlled propaganda medium owned by Alibaba Group and based in Hong Kong.

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      18 hours ago

      owned by Alibaba Group and based in Hong Kong.

      To be more specific, they have a bit of a liberal/pro-business bias due to those 2 factors, as opposed to China Daily and Fifth Tone.

      Chinese state-controlled propaganda

      All media is propaganda. If its not controlled by the state, its controlled by the same billionaires who control the state, making state-control redundant.

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      I’m not disagreeing with you, but I hope you also point out in other threads that US media is an oligarch controlled propaganda medium serving the interests of oligarchs.

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        Depends on the new source. That is definitely true for some of them. There are (at least for now) some exceptions

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          Its true for nearly all of them, look at the way their criticism of Trump’s attacks on Venezuela are technical in nature, they don’t dispute that Maduro is a dictator who should be removed, only the way Trump is doing it. They don’t criticize the sanctions and hostility that caused the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, only the competence in enacting the US’s will on Venezuela.

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      2 days ago

      I changed the link to the Reuters article.

      But thanks for additional context regarding the other source.