We used to be able to say AP, Reuters, NYTimes aren't partisan, and we used to be able to joke about RU news being Pravda-style propaganda. Unfortunately, we can no longer really mock the Russians this way with a straight face, as we have now started to look more like Soviet Russia.
Please. Let me know when people start getting sent to gulags - or simply killed - for publicly rejecting the official (single) party line of the United States. The false equivalence is getting out of control.
> Police chief: “Last night we began to take additional actions towards implementing our operation. We moved officers and equipment into key positions throughout the city and took up 100 checkpoints around the downtown core. We began making arrests of key individuals who were responsible for organizing these unlawful activities. (flash) As of 3pm today we’ve arrested 70 people. They’ve been charged with multiple various offenses including mischief.”
Here is a story about accounts of protestors being frozen, preventing them from paying bail to get out of jail.
> But for one protest organizer who was arrested last week, the effect was more immediate. The organizer, Tamara Lich, said she had been frozen out of all of her accounts and could come up with only 5,000 Canadian dollars for bail.
> We used to be able to say AP, Reuters, NYTimes aren't partisan, and we used to be able to joke about RU news being Pravda-style propaganda.
Who is this "we"? I'm Canadian now, but understanding media bias was something I was taught in American public school, with example from historical American media, and discussions on how bias can be engineered by selective reporting, etc.
> Unfortunately, we can no longer really mock the Russians this way with a straight face, as we have now started to look more like Soviet Russia.
Please feel free to inform the appropriate western authorities that I am guilty of visiting the RT website just now. I'll await the consequences.
