Isn't that the same brush you tar others with? 'Brainwashed masses', gullible, unable to think for themselves etc, for anyone who may be swayed by MSM?
Only those with obvious Russophobic prejudices. That obviously comes from your education and social environment, as well as the media.
Ah ok, so we can rely on you to inform us about whose right/wrong, and what's wrong/right about the world.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. But you, also, completely miss the point.
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And alt media has a record of getting it right every time? You don't have to look far to find complete distortions and downright lies which any basic editorial process would pick up on. Acting like Alt media is the only medium for getting the truth is a recipe for being completely deluded.
But you're attempting to pigeon hole the alternative media, when the description can be applied to a very broad field of media and commentary. & you seem to have the idea that those who subscribe to alternative media outlets are susceptible zombies drawn like moths to the lamp and lacking both discerning judgement and independent cognizance. Personally I read a lot of books, as well as the columns of experienced, award-winning journalists and commentators such as John Pilger, watch videos of Noam Chomsky speeches and Tariq Ali interviews. But I also run my eye over the mainstream media every day, including American, British, Turkish, Spanish and French publications. In fact, I listen to a little French radio every day, for practice, and also watch the independent Turkish news channel NTV whenever I'm at home. But I don't look at RT or Counterpunch, for example, and while Al Jazeera comes up with some great stories, I ignore everything they print about Syria - because they are a state-funded publication of Qatar, one of the main protagonists of that conflict.
Ah yes, Pilger. Who mad unsubstantiated claims about the movement of terrorist material through turkey as I recall in a piece that was full of opinion and lacking in actual facts. He was award winning, but I think at least one other poster pointed out that he had some isssues along the way. Yet his word is good enough for the accusation to be totally proven.
If you don't look at counterpunch why do you quote that site daily?
And as for pidgeon holing, isn't that what happens to MSM?
Sorry, I do look at Counterpunch. I meant Democracy Now. John Pilger is one of the most respected and experienced political journalists in the world and winner of multiple awards, notably in Britain. So I think I'll take his word over yours, or the mainstream media's for that matter. In saying that, his columns are regularly published in the mainstream media - I think quite regularly in the Guardian, while the American papers often pick them up as well. He was, in fact, quite right about the issue of 'terrorist material' and Turkey, and everybody here knows that, though the two journalists who broke the story are currently on trial for 'treason' (one was actually shot at outside the courthouse), and face life in prison. Robert Fisk, author of the seminal history on Middle Eastern politics, The Great War for Civilization, and many other renowned authors also feature regularly on Counterpunch, which is only a web site domain. Personally I enjoy the views of British MP George Galloway on the Middle East as well, even though he's given to a little hyperbole at times and is certainly not right about everything:
