Ukraine Thread

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I should have made it more clear that not the entire reply was primarily aimed at you.

Your point was valid of course, my point was more that I get a sense that a lot of people use a rather biased ethos. That doesn't mean that I believe RT more as some assume, it just means that I do not see all the pro-western media as inherently unbiased. Noone in the US would doubt that their media outlets are biased when it comes to reporting on the Democrats and the Republicans but when they report on Putin it seems as though everyone assumes they provide us with the unfiltered, unbiased truth.

Nothing in the US news media is completely unbiased or unfiltered. Lately, pretty much all of it is spun for its impact on our domestic politics anyway. The old "politics stops at the water's edge" adage (always honored in the breach a bit) is more or less dead now. Ultimately, NO media news effort can be completely unbiased or unfiltered -- nobody can simply discard their culture or intellectual 'lenses' like that -- but I would rather the US media adopted a stance closer to that of the BBC world service. They are as minimally biased as I have heard.

[Husar]

Nothing in the US news media is completely unbiased or unfiltered. Lately, pretty much all of it is spun for its impact on our domestic politics anyway. The old "politics stops at the water's edge" adage (always honored in the breach a bit) is more or less dead now. Ultimately, NO media news effort can be completely unbiased or unfiltered -- nobody can simply discard their culture or intellectual 'lenses' like that -- but I would rather the US media adopted a stance closer to that of the BBC world service. They are as minimally biased as I have heard.

Some would probably say the BBC promotes the liberal multiculturalist agenda or something like that.
Wasn't there also some pedophile scandal in the BBC ranks?
They're probably less biased than some of the US media though, but what happened to Al Jazeera? IIRC they were touted as the new, better BBC for a while but it seems as though they have fallen out of favor again.