It is my policy to ignore basically anything that the new york times or the guardian or any other major western news outlet says about China, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. These media corporations are incapable of unbiased reporting on these topics and serve merely as mouthpieces for western capitalist-imperialist powers, whether corporate or governmental.
This should be your policy also.
For instance, there is no “big choice facing biden in latin america.” It’s not his fucking business what happens there. The only choice facing him and his administration is to lift the embargos and sanctions or not, and in keeping with imperialist tradition, he won’t.
Ignore.
@pants hmm. Not really, between profit motive and inherent bias.
Democracy Now! on youtube does good reporting sometimes but their videos tend to run long, and they’re pretty us-centered.
Sometimes I’ll scan through the headlines at Al Jazeera or South China Morning Press, but with a critical eye. Depends on the topic.
Whenever possible, I want to hear directly from a reporter or even just a resident about conditions on the ground.
When you are trying to understand what is happening, I think it is good to think in terms of triangulation of news sources: see if you can get stories on the same events from multiple and politically divergent sources. So NYT is not excluded but can't be the only source. Beyond that, it seems helpful to go to sources at the grassroots level in which you have some trust and connection. For me that means someone like Edgardo Lander.
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