SofaKingSicki think you're getting way too carried away with the "media bad" narrative. lots of very good, verifiable journalism goes on but too many people have been convinced to throw the baby out with the bathwater and start to believe the "it's all trash, this dude online speaking confidently is just as good a source as anything" hogwash
if you're only talking about the talking heads news on tv (carlson being perhaps the very worst example, he literally gets out of shit in court by saying he's just "entertainment"), then yeah duh
if you're talking about Reuters, AP News, etc you've taken the bait. they'll still have their biases and agendas but it is very possible to consume a great variety of sources including all direct sources like govs and official tweets to build a clear-ish picture and build your own thoughts on things
Mainstream media owned by billionaire plutocrats, like Newhouse, Zucker; and oil/banking companies, like Shell, Genie Energy, Vanguard and Blackrock, are not impartial to their shareholders agendas. Plus, there are tools that compile statements from government officials already.
If you're talking about indepedent freelance journalism, muckraking, etc., then you'd have a point but propagandizing your shareholders propaganda has always been a tradition in the US, whereas, in Russia, it is entirely state owned. It is why we can have a free-press in America but only in the sense that the press can be monopolized by private companies and actual journalism is either out of a job or working indepedently or for very small non-televised stations.
As for Reuthers, they too have their shareholders—large pharmaceutical companies make up a large bulk and its CEO holds smiliar stock. They shilled for the neocon war a decade ago, which stole trillions in entitlements from Americans. And the Associated Press? Well they're so impartial that the day of 9/11 they had Palestinians dance and celebrate for free pieces of cake and then sold and had that footage broadcasted around the world as Palestinians celebrating the destruction of the Twin Towers, presumably, to counter Mossad celebrating in NY who were there to "document the event" proclaiming "give us 20 years and we'll take over your media and destroy your country" as well as so the US could intervene in Palestine, which was the same aspiration of terrorist Ehud Barak, who ten minuties after the planes hit the towers, knew who did 9/11 and called for an outright war on Arab countries.
That kind of display of deception is unforgivable. Fuck the Associated Press, who recently fired a Palestinian journalist because she tweeted something a decade ago calling Zionism ethnoc-cleansing. For the good journalists who report on their own time and the truth, thank you.
**This post was edited on Mar 1st 2022 at 3:59:38pm