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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"Freedom of the press" is a joke. I can see what our "free press" is doing with the butchery of Gaza. At a certain point you have to accept that your understanding of the facts is not, and has never been unmediated.

Here is a good starting point if you want to understand the ways this has happened and more critically evaluate it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

“Freedom of the press” is a joke

Yes, I know that's what China believes. That's why it's so important.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

I've invited you to learn literally anything about this subject before commenting further. Not much else I can do you help you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Our prudent and judicious public broadcasting institutions

VS

Their tyrannical censored state propaganda centersso-true

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake 'public opinion' for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”

Read theory

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Can you make a coherent argument from their position, or do you not understand your own boogeyman?