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this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2025
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There is no dichotomy, both RT and Western corporate media are billionaire run bullshit. Choosing one or the other is a losing game, you need to critically analyze all the information you are exposed to and cross reference.
You are talking all your biases into it and reading information that is literally not present. This is just making fun of liberals in the US who comment on lemmy threads about RT being unreliable and not much else. The implication is really that the western media is equally unreliable. You are so propagandized that the mere mention of RT makes you leap to wild conclusions.
This is the false dichotomy: RT and western media. You've even stopped distinguishing between western corporate media and western media in this comment, because you boiled it down to this false binary. What about Common Dreams? ProPublica? Democracy Now? Those aren't western media?
If the point here is, "Liberals think CNN/MSNBC/NYT isn't biased because its not state media," fine, but with no context, this just as easily reads, "RT is fine because corporate news is also biased." That's why this is sitting at 59% upvotes.