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I feel sad for people who rely on #BBC #TheGuardian #nytimes #CNN as a source of #news to understand the world.

Their worldview is that of a person in #PlatosCave - trying to make sense of an increasingly complex world by looking at a set of carefully curated shadows; the courage needed to crawl out of the cave euthanised by their puppet masters lest they be shocked by the level of their own misinformation.

#news #bbc #nytimes #theguardian #cnn #platoscave

Doug Webb 2 Monate her •

yes. And what sources would you recommend?

asdf 2 Monate her •

That's a tough one! There is an India specific site - newsclick.in - that I rely on (the editor/founder was imprisoned by 2 of our gov'ts on false charges 😅). On the Palestine issue, hearing directly from the resistance on Telegram has been very reliable; also ElectronicIntifada, Mondoweiss are brilliant. AlJazeera is somewhat reliable except when reporting on Qatar/UAE. Financial Times usually has their facts right (Op-Eds are terrible). On Russia, China I prefer books and podcasts

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