Moved from Iran thread:
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Originally Posted by The Fonz
Which media is not compromised though? Genuinely, I'm not asking that to start a back and forth scrap.
Our media and it's "journalists" in recent history seem to be the greatest purveyors of propaganda. Or maybe it only seems "recent" because of my age - 38. Perhaps it's been going on for decades/generations and I was just too young to understand (or not alive).
An interesting quote from Joe Kent this morning, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center who just resigned due to America's involvement in Israel's war with Iran:
"Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent thread to the United States..."
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Well not ABC, or anyone else who so clearly folded to Donald. And honestly, I don't even know who that is down there, maybe PBS? NPR?
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FOLKENFLIK: And let's be clear. You know, I've heard from conservative friends in recent days saying, gosh, everything that the press is throwing up there is just designed to discredit Trump and make him look bad. But there are examples of news outlets doing real reporting to try to figure out the facts. Take The New York Times. It did independent forensic work to verify that U.S. missiles did strike a school for girls that was close to an Iranian army base in the town of Minab on February 28. And examining similar satellite footage, NPR made similar determinations.
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https://www.npr.org/2026/03/08/nx-s1...ed-war-in-iran
NYT? I understand all organizations will get stuff wrong, but we can't write them all off. BBC, DW, and CBC all are not perfect, but I think instead of writing them off when they get something wrong, you give them a chance to correct it.