COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PIERS ROBINSON IN THE
GUARDIAN
"Russian news may
be biased – but so is much western media"
Much?
Is that intended as a joke?
No one has a monopoly on bias.
And you write this in a paper which displays daily bias in
virtually every real news story it runs and certainly every editorial, whether
in domestic politics or foreign affairs - from Jeremy Corbyn to Brexit, from
Syria to Russia, and on and on.
Right now, it's on a Trump is bad- Hillary is good nonstop
orgy.
The only things which save the front page from screaming
top-to-bottom bias are all those fluffy, harmless news stories and features
about topics from left-handedness to cooking, but maybe those too are biased
too if you go through them.
You live in a dreamworld if you believe Russia is one whit
different to The Guardian or The Independent. And Murdoch papers? Enough said.
As far as papers like The New York Times and Washington
Post, they are literally, as some clever fellow once said of the Times, house
organs of American Empire, virtually vetted by CIA and frequently caught with
agents on staff, but polished enough to make the minions of empire feel as
though they are being informed.
The Times has even finally admitted it passes all stories on
Israel's region and affairs through Israeli censors before publication.
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Response to a comment
about many people seeing through the bias:
That is true, I'm sure.
The Soviet people had a saying, "They pretend to pay
us, and we pretend to work." I'm sure the attitude towards official
publications was similar.
