Warning, rant incoming. Not much of substance here, I just gotta vent to like-minded individuals.

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Okay, some background, I’m a new-ish commie who doesn’t have as much time as I want to do deep research dives.

But I’ve done some… and I’m getting pissed.

CNN, BBC, and mintpres, let’s talk about them.

1. I’ve dove into a couple of articles around conspiracy theories regarding China. Harvesting organs (Literally no evidence, the sources stated don’t come close to evidence), and Uyghur forced labor (Dumb libs think that a jobs program after their counter-terrorism education program counts as “forced labor”… Maybe there’s more? I can’t find real evidence but let me know in the comments if there is anything with evidence I should look into), both of them heavily cited by the BBC.

2. CNN’s Israel propaganda (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/04/cnn-staff-pro-israel-bias)

3. Mintpress, never read them, apparently libs hate them (What do you think? Genuinely curious as people here are way more reasonable than anywhere else I spend my time).

So, what I have is some real evidence that the BBC spreads false conspiracy theory propaganda about China that’s pretty easily verifiable. I guess that’s why China banned them (Oh, and apparently also because the British government banned CGTN).

CNN also has the journalistic integrity of… Well, someone defending a genocide… so basically like a Nazi funded newspaper? Bad as it can get.

Now, I’ve never read Mintpress, I don’t know if they’ve spread conspiracy theories, who cares. That’s not the point here. Let’s say they did, let’s say Mintpress is all lefty lies and conspiracy propaganda, etc.

You can check out the wikipedia’s articles about them for yourself, suffice to say, they don’t mention any of the lies CNN/BBC spread, but literally that’s the only thing mentioned in the Mintpress article.

If wikipedia were ‘neutral’, they would talk about the bad sides of CNN/BBC as much as Mintpress, as the evidence is clearly there. As well, some neutral information about Mintpress would be nice too. Sure, use it to learn about the chemistry and biology and the class of the flower you just found, cool, but politics? Fucking biased as it gets.

Like, how can someone with a functioning brain defend this? I guess I used too, but it’s just so fucking obvious now. Like, how many times has some ‘reputable’ news source been caught lying, cheating, or just plain editorializing (I’m guessing that’s what mint press does, takes facts and editorializes, that’s what everyone does), and nothing is mentioned in wikipedia. How much information is just… oppressed? Damn it, these people call China oppressive, what fucking hypocrites.

Prolewiki to the rescue! I only wish the articles about CNN/BBC were longer. Maybe when I get more time and do a deep dive I can find time to contribute. I think I have my old references too, just can’t find them right now.

Okay, I’ll end with this, a lot of people here write off anything Wikipedia has to say as nonsense, I used to think that was a bit extreme, but now… I guess I just learned for myself how bad it is.