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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't regard any place with the US presence as a CIA clubhouse, but you must admit, The Default Country for many on the internet, here included, is the US. So yeah, most of the news are the US news

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And to add, even our so-called "left-leaning" news outlets have a STRONG pro-establishment pro-capitalist bias, but we're so immersed in it that I feel like it's super hard to recognize. Anarchist and Marxist sources often get called out for their obvious bias, but guess what? CNN, MSNBC, WaPo... those are just as biased, but they're more aligned to the status quo so we fail to see it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Usually when people complain about bias, it's because the news source is promoting something undesirable. If you agree with the viewpoints and ideology, then you're not going to complain about bias usually, unless there's some politics at play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yes exactly. This is also why those sites that proclaim to measure bias tend to be utterly subjective. They themselves show bias in their criteria and methodology