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In reply to the discussion: Note to Leftists: [View all]socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)It's been a while, but I seem to remember RT covering the Wisconsin uprising and the Occupy movement sooner than the MSM in this country did. Now was that coverage without an agenda? Of course not. But regardless of the agenda behind the coverage, it's either covering something that's happening or it's totally making something up. Or, as in the case with the MSM in this country it's ignoring it and hoping it goes away.
This is a "post factual" era with a lot of sources at your fingertips. The ONLY way to approach it is to try and see things from several viewpoints and come to an independent conclusion. In my case a conclusion based on dialectical materialism. If you want to call that a bias, I'll plead guilty. To me it's just a way of looking at the political economy in a way that has proven out by events more times than not.
The problem for Americans is that the MSM in this country has an agenda too and that agenda is NOT "left" friendly. They won't even cover left events and movements until they've gotten too big to ignore. Which leaves us only with other sources which, of course, ALSO have agendas.
There's no unbiased sources any more.