People are losing trust in mainstream media because of perceived biased coverage of the Gaza genocide. If that erosion of trust is real, why isn’t it prompting wider public re-examination of historical cover-ups and contested narratives — Watergate, Iran–Contra, Iraq, even shifting beliefs about who “beat” the Nazis? If we don’t question how past information was shaped, what’s the point of preserving evidence (e.g., Gaza genocide evidence recently removed from YouTube by Google)? Won’t this all be forgotten in a few years, the same way all those previous events are no longer discussed?
What’s stopping a sustained, constructive public inquiry into these parallels between past cover-ups and current information control? Where are good, constructive places to discuss these issues without falling into unproductive conspiracy spirals?
the difference is that sources defining the tiananmen protests as a massacre are funded by the state department (both directly and undirectly) which has a long, storied and undisputed history of peddling propaganda; including my government’s own admissions of doing so.
Huh, today I learned that the US state department runs/funds the UK government and the BBC. Alternate reality history is fascinating.
ever heard of the “special relationship” between the two countries that enable them to work together in arenas like this one and usaid literally funded several foreign “media” agencies like the guardian before trump shuttered it.
Ever heard that if you swapped Lenin for Trump and the West with the deep state. You’d be indistinguishable from a magat. There’s no such thing as perfect governance. Not in the United States, UK, and certainly not in China.
This need to turn every failing for your in group into a conspiracy theory against them. is the signature of a weak mind not concerned with facts or truth.
The United States literally has been in war with the UK at times. Admittedly, it’s been a while. They’ve never been an indivisible unit. And right or wrong the UK had a front row seat to watch the goings on in China for many decades from Hong Kong.
If China wanted to be taken seriously, perhaps they shouldn’t “checks notes” imprison a journalists for talking to a diplomat. Or generally assign government minders, to control what journalist have access to. Perhaps especially, they should be more open to foreign press. Then it wouldn’t always be the CCP’s position and everyone else’s. But who am I kidding. Of course, it’s everyone else’s fault. The entire world all in on a deep state plot to make you look bad.