It’s interesting how much news on this comm. comes from news agencies in the same few countries. Looking through the recent few posts, this is what I see:

Israel: Haaretz, Ynet, Times of Israel, JPost

United States: NYT, AP, CNN, VOA, RFA, Newsweek, NBC, WaPo, WSJ, Axios, Semafor

United Kingdom: The Guardian, BBC, Reuters

Ukraine: Pravda, Ukrinform, Kyiv Independent, Kyiv Post

Other Europe: france24, DW, notesfrompoland, El Pais

Other (often only one article from each): straitstimes, SCMP, Al Jazeera, JapanToday, Buenos Aires Herald

This reflects a heavily American-centric lean, an Anglo-centric lean, and a Euro-centric lean. These biases are inherent based on where news is being drawn from. It’s showing only one side of the picture. People like to argue that this is because the US (and the West at large) protects media freedoms, but to that I point to:

1. The claims of Iraqi WMDs used to justify the invasion of Iraq

2. The claims of Ukrainian/NATO-backed technical superiority allowing Ukraine to push to the Sea of Azov

3. The “unlawful detention” of the two Canadian Michaels in China, when it was later revealed that they were participating in “security reporting operations in China” and the Canadian government is paying $3m each as compensation

Even if these media freedoms are so strong, they’re still consistently failing to capture the truth… And the truth is what news should be about.

There’s a few people in the current batch of mods who are letting mod powers get to their head.

In general, a lot of “news” ends up being bullshit spun around a single organization or think tank’s position under the guise of independent journalism.

Welcome to American news.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, but only interviews IDF sources.

Classic.

jordanlund and YoBuckStopsHere are terrible mods who have a complete lack of communication with the rest of the mod team.

Good luck, I want to dunk on the racist comments but they get removed before I can.

Half the articles here are already “what does the US think about the world?”

I don’t think the restriction on US internal news is actually accomplishing anything useful

Might be a reason you’re no longer top mod 🤷

At this point, maybe the solution is to just ban US news sources and call it a day lmao

World news should be international.

A mod also removed an Associated Press article for “missinformation.” How much more reliable of a source do you want?

The current mods are hopeless. Idk if it’s a few bad apples or a bad bunch, but it’s really not a good situation.

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cute

German manufacturing PMI is at like 42. By definition, that means Germany’s manufacturing capacity is contracting.

Lemmy bugs lol

each party will take action as they deem necessary

tbh this reads like the “security guarantees” that Ukraine got for giving up their nuclear weapons: not worth the paper it’s written on

what are the odds Ukraine actually takes back their territory? The vaunted summer counteroffensive was a complete and abject failure

Berlin will do anything to justify pumping money into their failing industrial sector

US backing leaves Israel invulnerable tbh

lmao mods here ban for anything nowadays