Anyone else notice this very weird trait with Western ‘journalists’/commentators, where they form their own opinions on others absolutely absent actually talking to them and hearing what they have to say; similar to that German woman (politician? she was on the news at some point) where she was saying that Russians aren’t really European and don’t value life, and have a different view towards death, or basically any Western ‘journalist’ who has a bizarre opinion on foreign cultures, where they don’t actually invite anyone from it to confirm whether or not this is indeed part of their culture?
Why not ask the native population if they’re content with the reservations or not? If this is actually about helping them, then get their opinion on it, heck, democracy right? Get them to vote on it.
Perhaps this style of journalism is actually correct but it seems clownishly unprofessional; I can’t help but feel like it’s little better than modern superstition, but then I’d have to actually ask journalists why they think this behavior is normal or grants accurate results if I want to be principled about it.
It’s because journalism as a profession in the west is more about propaganda and manufacturing consent for the ruling class than it is about getting at the truth or reality of a situation. Their opinion is the only part that’s actually necessary or relevant to their purpose. Any “investigation” they do is just a garnish to legitimize whatever narrative they’re being paid to propagate. Why would they ask questions of people whose answers will probably contradict that narrative? It is clownishly unprofessional, but for a number of reasons, including just the sheer volume of “news” vying for attention, it’s become less and less needed recently to provide that pretense of doing any investigation.
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“Not the Indians”
Anyone else notice this very weird trait with Western ‘journalists’/commentators, where they form their own opinions on others absolutely absent actually talking to them and hearing what they have to say; similar to that German woman (politician? she was on the news at some point) where she was saying that Russians aren’t really European and don’t value life, and have a different view towards death, or basically any Western ‘journalist’ who has a bizarre opinion on foreign cultures, where they don’t actually invite anyone from it to confirm whether or not this is indeed part of their culture?
Why not ask the native population if they’re content with the reservations or not? If this is actually about helping them, then get their opinion on it, heck, democracy right? Get them to vote on it.
Perhaps this style of journalism is actually correct but it seems clownishly unprofessional; I can’t help but feel like it’s little better than modern superstition, but then I’d have to actually ask journalists why they think this behavior is normal or grants accurate results if I want to be principled about it.
Walsh is a fascist so he doesn’t have to pretend to care.
It’s because journalism as a profession in the west is more about propaganda and manufacturing consent for the ruling class than it is about getting at the truth or reality of a situation. Their opinion is the only part that’s actually necessary or relevant to their purpose. Any “investigation” they do is just a garnish to legitimize whatever narrative they’re being paid to propagate. Why would they ask questions of people whose answers will probably contradict that narrative? It is clownishly unprofessional, but for a number of reasons, including just the sheer volume of “news” vying for attention, it’s become less and less needed recently to provide that pretense of doing any investigation.
if u simply read hobbes, u will see that democracy is bad and people cannot be trusted to govern themselves
(this isn’t what hobbes wrote, but you wouldn’t know that from how conservatives invoke him)
i mean, it basically is
The guy has made an entire documentary doing this but on trans women