Media Critique
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Another day, another instance of atrocity propaganda in western media. But what exactly is atrocity propaganda and how does it work? 🧵
THIS IS CRASS!!! Honestly, why would any woman who has any self respect, upload something dressed (if we can even call it dressing) like this for social media. To what end? This c...
Long Thread : "Putin has lost War in Ukraine. Zelensky is the New Winston Churchill who has defeated Modern Hitler Putin!!!” Haven't you been used to such headlines IMPOSED by "I...
1/ Folks responding to the NYT editorial by claiming that shaming and shunning pose ZERO implications for freedom of speech, that allowing people to shame and shun is simply part o...
I try to stay away from editorializing on here, but I will make an exception for this New Yorker interview with Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin. Kotkin makes some bizarre clai...
[Exposed] The web of lies of alleged fact-check portal AltNews & directors. Pravda Media (parent co), a not-for-profit, not just making huge profits but systematically retaining m...
idk, Western media people kinda being a little bit racist right now 😳 (a thread)
[Thread] The most racist Ukraine coverage on TV News. 1. The BBC - “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” - Ukrain...
I mean maybe calling yourself they/them and leading men around on leashes in your free time has no correlation with your ability to do an important government job well. But I have...
My segment last night on @TuckerCarlson is having a bigger impact than I ever imagined. It's causing pro-war pundits and politicians to lose their minds! Let's catalog their mel...
I would dearly love to be able to come out in unequivocal support of the BBC, as it comes under government attack. But while its dramas and a few of its documentaries are excellen...
What bullshit is this? No dearth of fucking idiots. https://t.co/b4xzj2PHSC
Kindly compare and contrast the coverage of India’s covid surge earlier this year to the coverage of the current covid spike in Europe, the worst since the panny began. See any dea...
People sharing actual letters and sources are WhatsApp historians. One who made 4 glaring factual errors in two paragraphs is competent to handle. Thank you. https://t.co/z0ddt...
1. Malishka Mendonza of Red FM is a sexual predator. Nothing less. My Facebook inbox has numerous cringey messages from Lutyens journalists. One offered "anything you want" if I w...
How to Write About Afghanistan: A Style Guide for Western Journalists (An homage to Binyavanga Wainaina.)
Recent articles on the outcome of the Battle of Haldighati have described Rana Pratap fleeing the battlefield as a “tactical retreat”. This is only a shade better than declaring th...
10 truth about China that mainstream media won’t tell you. I lived half my life in China, half in US. The US media coverage about China is stuck in the cold war and laughable at b...
Let’s talk a bit about some of the structural biases in media coverage of Palestine. This thread is going to get a bit…. personnel….so bear with me....
[THREAD] How does 🇮🇱 and its Lobby in 🇺🇸 ensure complete impunity for its crimes? How does the Israel Lobby work to control the media narrative on Palestine? I spent 5 months unde...
1/: The fate of the world as we know it is at stake. Pseudoscience is dominating the news. My appeal is based on the appendix of Michael Crichton's book ‘State of Fear’ that clarif...
Short thread on the female fragility panic: For decades now women have been conditioned via TV, film, and education, that they are just as strong & powerful as men. It is totally n...
today is the 19th anniversary of 9/11, and so also of the entire professional media class losing their minds over chomsky telling some plain truths about it https://t.co/8epbsZBwcP
Their sources do. https://t.co/aq0PgchXgn
