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In reply to the discussion: The propaganda mouthpiece of the oil magnate Dictator in Qatar - Al Jazeera America [View all]delrem
(9,688 posts)Remember, Qatar has been *very* strongly backing (funding, hiring, arming) the "Syrian rebels", along with Saudi Arabia.
I wouldn't tune into RT either, without reminding myself of the obvious bias. But that obvious bias is no greater than the biases of MSNBC and FOX, CNN, etc., and I no longer ever allow myself to absorb the information of a news source without examining the ownership at the very least, because those info flows are so influential in determining my picture of the world situation.
For example, it's very rare to see any mention in the western corporate MSM of the fact that it isn't known who was the perpetrator of the chemical weapon attack in Syria - rather, 99+% of "news items" state definitively that Assad did it. This kind of across the board bias, in this situation of yet another buildup to war, in fact saturates our info sources with a lie.