COMMENTS POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
And we can all join Putin in congratulating an alternate
voice on its success.
Those who truly want to understand welcome new sources of
information, which is precisely why a number of influential people in Europe would
like to ban Russia Today.
The average person can only come to approximately understand
what is happening in politics and international affairs by comparing the words
of as many sources as possible.
It is just a fact that all newspapers and broadcasters from
every country come with a certain amount of bias, full stop.
But a perceptive reader can learn things by comparing and
"reading between the lines."
The great independent journalist, I.F. Stone, felt you could
get at some truth no other way.
It much resembles listening to witnesses in a court who say
different things about a crime.
Taking account of the witnesses' choice of words and tone, a
juror forms an idea of where the truth is.
It only can ever be approximate since no great institutions
or governments ever show themselves naked to witnesses, as it were.
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Response to a reader
who says BBC is too biased to watch anymore:
Yes, BBC is almost sickeningly so.
Every story, every descriptive word, and even the photos
selected are together used to generate a tapestry of extreme slant in its
"reportage."
When bias is that screamingly obvious, the only thing an
honest person learns from it is that certain matters are hidden or
misrepresented consistently.
