Media Critique
125 Threads
Westerners are taught that evil foreign "regimes" don't let their people criticize their government, meanwhile westerners themselves are trained to never criticize their government...
Well hallelujah. After my many threads debunking his Ukraine lies—about the Euromaidan, the Donbas war, “NATO’s proxy war,” etc., etc., Maté finally responds to one of them. In d...
I think a lot of people are totally ignorant of the background dynamic driving the drama around the checkmarks. But what happened is that a few years ago the New York Times made...
Journalism is dead. Twenty years ago, every major publication would have had boots on the ground chasing the facts in the Paul Pelosi story - questioning the narrative, interviewin...
The actual problem with The Wire is not just the team, it's the reader base. Since that reporting is not read to understand anything but only to substantiate ideologically maxima...
i wish the csm anime was a lot better than it is and as it stands the only really good parts are the outros and other than that its very underwhelming
We all grew up watching these TV couples. What the media doesn’t want you to know though, is how toxic they truly were.
Quillette thing isn't hard to explain. You say some edgy things, sap dissident energy, then pivot away from "scary" right once you've gained a little notoriety. Lehmann started thi...
I always see these viral John Oliver clips on here, and I ask myself, does he ever think there's any nuance to any issue? Every issue is covered as if he's obviously right, everyon...
(1/11) Your Indian child is being abused. We will show you with examples, pictures & proofs, Shockingly psychological tactics used by BBC, CNN, Wapo, NYT, Aljazeera, CBSE, ICSE, Bo...
Western media is universally negative about Xi Jinping. Not even close to being objective. Looking at the last decade, here are some of Xi’s big achievements that I can think top...
1/ Thread: This Vox article is really bad. It seriously overstates the evidence for the efficacy of youth medical transition while attempting to pressure science journalists -- alr...
I find it very disturbing that a very large section of the media in England is asking questions of a girl who played by the laws of the game & none at all of another who was gainin...
Spirit of Cricket is like Secularism, something English won't follow themselves but made mandatory for brown shoulders. England will remain constitutional monarchy but BBC will ca...
1 In ur 1st part, u said Garth Myers, brother of Kenneth Myers, who owed the ranch with his wife, Edith, before the Shermans, told Frank Salisbury, "...there were never any signs o...
#Thread Everyone's fav 3 Idiots Movie is also a soft hinduphobic movie that you might not have realized while watching. Scene 1: A Muslim guy asks his hindu friend to throw the "a...
Blaming the media is one of the laziest arguments you'll find on Twitter. Which is saying something because Twitter was, it seems, designed from the ground up to be the birthplace...
It's hard to see from inside it, but I think something is "happening" here. I think we are at the ground floor of something really big. A pocket Renaissance.🧵 https://t.co/sW6KX4PG...
Politicians like PO and DM have figured out that if you go on TV/radio in Nigeria, you can basically pluck numbers/‘facts’ from the air and get away with it. You can make stuff up...
In retrospect, actually not just in retrospect but some of you are not ready for that conversation, it's really funny that people were so scared of Russian propaganda when it's so...
Let’s talk about the Forward Party. It encapsulates all the fallacies of a shallow “unity politics” that is based on a superficial analysis of what ails the country and offers emp...
obviously lots of people write stupid things on substack (i.e. stuff i personally disagree with), but it's always silly to call a successful substack a "grift." readers like the co...
I don’t usually do the dunking thing, but this is so colossally stupid (and representative) it begs for a comment. This is a common sentiment on the left, muddying the discourse o...
1/ About Jordan Peterson... The inability of nearly everyone in elite/respectable/mainstream institutions to understand the appeal of @jordanbpeterson is a symptom of the very def...
