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True enough, but where I agree with Techno is on the importance of what is ignored and/or minimized. That is why I read and consider articles on naked capitalism and other blogs as well as Counterpunch and Global Research and why I am not put off by questionable tone. After all, I am reading mainstream press not so much for their take on news but for what can be gleaned from the coverage despite the spin and considering what they will never cover. Alternative media may have greater frequency of poor sourcing but the biggest problem, to me is misrepresentation of facts, framing and improper contextualization and, especially, deference to received opinion from the powerful. The latter has particularly driven me crazy during the Ukraine episode to an extent I have not felt since the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sun Apr 27th, 2014 at 01:04:08 PM EST
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I hear Ukraine CW parroted daily by radio and TV here in France, and I know it's arrant bullshit. I look at Russian sources, and find a pile of arrant bullshit too. In both cases, it's deference to the "party line". When I see stuff from Counterpunch or above all Global Research I also find heaps of arrant bullshit, in a kind of anti-party-line mirror image of the former. Not only is there poor sourcing, but often also "misrepresentation of facts, framing and improper contextualization", and above all facile speculation passed off for expert geopolitical knowledge.

I don't find these sources help reach informed understanding of events. (I repeat, if Dobbin's speculations came to us from the Moustache after a chat with his taxi driver, we'd be ROTFLMAO). It's not that I'm Zen Master in understanding events (I want to heave a brick through the screen too), but I don't get any relief from the well-worn "alternative" groove.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Apr 28th, 2014 at 03:12:43 AM EST
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