You're assuming that they don't matter equally. That may be true, but it's dangerous to start off by simply assuming the validity of your thesis.
Moreover, it assumes that the way in which they don't matter equally is based only on racial lines. I'm far from convinced that's completely true. It appears that's some of it, but the fact is that police kill lots of innocent whites, hispanics, and asians as well. That being the case, wouldn't it make more sense to look more broadly at where the disparities are, rather than simply assuming that it's all racial while refusing to entertain any other possibility?
If Western media could not stop the WMD lie, what are they good for? You can find BBC fabrication in faked Madaya media images [1], or see bad stage acting used in BBC Panorama 'Saving Syria's Children.' [2]
Chang In-suk [1], head of the North Korean Defectors’ Association in Seoul at the time, says Lee Soon-ok is a liar. The Guardian tackles the question, "Why do North Korean defector testimonies so often fall apart?" [2]
Interesting. Do you have any information on what was suspected to be exaggerated? I read up a bit on Chang In-suk, and saw the Guardian's reference to forum posters on NKnet (who doubted she was imprisoned), but couldn't find any of the original posts or supporting evidence.
This sort of stuff would be really really bad to fabricate IMO, considering the scale of known-true suffering going on in North Korea.
I've heard of intelligence failures to explain the Iraq war, now this author says it was confirmation bias which caused a completely erroneous justification for the invasion of Iraq. I think the author has confirmation bias in too easily using the term to explain government and corporate policy choices which have been based on false justifications.
Seconded, BBC science articles are dreadful. I am sick of their 1-2 sentence 'paragraphs' and dumbing down of concepts. There is better science writing in the Daily Mail, which is a depressingly low standard to be beaten by.
Agreed, BBC news in general has gotten pretty bad in general lately. It has gotten much more link bait articles, pointless 2 line pieces and biased articles that I can't treat it seriously anymore.
We have engineered GMO food so why not engineered news media? Free speech is really a mechanism to protect advertisers. As I feel myself as a sort of penned livestock that gets to choose between competing capitalists, all I can say is I'm off Western news media as it gives me diarrhea, but if you can consume it then more power to you.
Just like GMO is merely a continuation of the manual engineering ("cultivation") that has been going on since the earliest days of human societies, biased media is nothing new at all, sadly.
Although the Luddites would have you think it's a novel problem, news never where unbiased in the first place. Sure, good journalistic self-control can go a long way in preserving the original information, but that information in itself is biased already.
There's another analogy about processed food and processed information here, but it's still a matter of where you can source what you can consume. Buying local means you'll have to abstain from foreign material, which I don't think is an option for many when it comes to news.
I posted this before:
Clearly the Cambodian and Indochina people went through an awful period. Pol Pot did extreme things as a leader but the alternative of leaving Lon Nol in power who had people starving was not good either. Whether communism or Islamic fundamentalism, anti-colonialism wars are not fun to live through. Here is a perspective I picked up from the Internet.
"A Finnish inquiry commission concludes that 1 million or fewer people died in the Pol Pot period. The commission documented that at least several thousand of those were because of direct military battles with Vietnam. Part of the discrepancy in death figures comes from those who fail to account for the decrease in births that inevitably happens when a population is lacking adequate food and fighting a war. These missed births get counted as deaths in population projections that assume the birth rate did not change."
"The United States war in Southeast Asia killed 600,000 people in Cambodia according to the Finnish Inquiry Commission. The total U.S.-caused deaths in Indochina run into the millions."
"By 1975, an estimated 10 percent of the Kampuchean population -- 600,000 -- had already died as a result of the Vietnam War. Those 600,000 deaths were caused by U.S. efforts to track down Vietnamese communists. According to the Peter Jennings documentary "The Killing Fields", Cambodia specifically absorbed 500,000 tons of U.S. bombs in the early 1970s."
"The U.S.-instigated war -- and the bombings in particular -- also caused the creation of 2 million refugees, who flooded the cities. The cities then came to depend on the U.S. food aid to live because of the war and the inefficiency of the right-wing Lon Nol regime."
"Hence, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge seized power from Lon Nol in 1975 in the worst possible situation: The people were starving, Kampuchea was the poorest country in the world and one-third of its people were refugees."
"Executions and other deaths"
"The Boston Globe coverage of Pol Pot's death contained this characterization of the Khmer Rouge: "When the Khmer Rouge marched into the capital on April 17, 1975 to establish their agrarian society, they chased out city dwellers at gunpoint, killed anyone suspected of being an intellectual, forced millions into labor camps, and demanded that children inform on their parents. People were often arrested simply for wearing glasses or knowing a foreign language. Money and private property were abolished, schools and temples were shuttered, and medicine and food became scarce. During a nearly four-year reign, as many as 2 million people died of starvation, execution illness or overwork."
"Pol Pot did execute between 75,000 and 150,000 people between 1975 and 1979. Most of those executions took place in the context of war between Vietnam and Cambodia.Vietnam invaded in 1978 and threw the Khmer Rouge out of power.The famous skull-pile pictures from Kampuchea come from a policy especially aimed at the Vietnamese.Serious famine followed again after the final Vietnamese invasion of December 1978, and by the time international aid started it was too late for many. A total of 2 million, or 30 percent of the population, died in the 1970s from the U.S. war, the Pol Pot period and Vietnamese invasions."
"The United States aided the Khmer Rouge in the 1980s, because they were enemies of U.S. foes, the Vietnamese, who had invaded and ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979."
I'm Finnish and I'm curious about this "Finnish Inquiry Commision" into Cambodia. I haven't heard of such a (government) commission or investigation, and I'm pretty sure that if one ever existed, I'd have heard about it.
I tried to google for it, but found nothing very tangible. Incidentally, many of the references to such a supposed Finnish government commission are made by sites (for instance globalresearch.ca) that are currently also repeating Kremlin view about Ukraine.
Kampuchea: Decade of Genocide: Report of a Finnish Inquiry Commission
by Kiljunen, Kimmo (Editor)
Publisher: Zed Books, London
Date published: 1984
ISBN-13: 9780862322083
ISBN: 0862322081
The U.S. has been in perpetual war for over a decade, the media is part of that war. While advantaged, educated U.S. citizens want to make believe in a free Western press, invented narratives like Jessica Lynch rescue, staged Saddam Hussein statue toppling, Diane Sawyer's yellow journalism showing bombed out Gaza calling it Israel, BBC filming actors in supposed Syrian gas attack, embedded media to show our boys in a positive light, Brian Williams lie to also make war personal for viewers that was shot down by soldiers over "stolen valor", these incidents paint a different picture. How about how journalist Helen Thomas who was set up to discredit her. 6 corporations control 90% of media in U.S. Is that the diversity Nuland crows about. Journalists and academics are often found to be paid agents of intelligence services.
