Husband needs proof news is censored
Husband needs proof news is censored
My husband doesn’t belong to 50501 and he is skeptical of the news being censored, can anone help me show him otherwise.
Look at the NYTs coverage of the genocide in gaza ("boohoo poor israel, self defense") and general media coverage Bernie Sanders (doesnt exist until he has no chance of winning something, pretending hes more outspoken now even though he's been saying the same thing for the last 60 years)
The IDF will bomb a hospital and kill 200 people
NYT article will say something like "200 Dead after bombs drop near a place, according to the Hamas-run health ministry."
They phrase everything so carefully.
Like the bombs were some sort of natural disaster and not an intentional military strike on civilians.They always append "Hamas run health ministry", to imply the information can't be reliable, because it's from a US-designated terrorist organisation
The Israeli media will say "We killed 300 Palestinians"
Use a VPN. On the American side try to find any signs of bad past news on Trump. Now do it from another country on the VPN. See the difference before your very eyes. You can also do this on TikTok and probably get similar results.
You're going to have to be more specific. There is no network-level filtering of content at the network delivery layer in the US and US can access any international hosts if the host permits it.
Search engines do have regional awareness (that can basically always be changed as a setting) to deliver more local results. I suspect this on social media platforms is what you're referring to. It's not exactly censorship, but they definitely promote with an agenda.
Don't get me wrong, Trump and Republicans are fascists who deserve the worst fate and would gladly setup this kind of system, but it's not like there's a network component to censorship like you see in China and some other dictatorships (yet).
Source: I'm always traveling and on VPNs from all regions of the Earth
So far most of the American censorship happens at Layer 7 (or Layer 8 - the meat layer), not Layer 3.
Use a VPN.
Do not recommend people to use random free VPN’s. You should pick your VPN provider carefully as all your traffic will flow through their servers.
There was an article out there about how protests this year have been consistently twice as many as in 2017. Show him that and then ask him if he's seen it covered in the news.
ask him if he's heard about the latest CEO shooting, and point out how it ISN"T Brian Thompson's cathartic death
I think you might be tackling this the wrong way.
You can't really provide hard evidence that "the news is censored" to someone who doesn't want to believe that, because the term "censored" is subjective.
As in, reasonable evidence would be a peer reviewed study of media bias, of which there are many, but a "skeptic" can reject that evidence on the grounds that it doesn't meet their definition of censorship.
A more meaningful conversation would be to ask whether news sources have bias, and which are more biased than others and in which way.
The term "censorship" implies a big secret not being told, which isn't my impression of what's happening. Rather, there's a constant conservative spin on everything that happens.
Sadly, I suspect you might be about to discover that you can't change your partner's political alignment. I'm in my 40s, and in my age group you're either lucky enough to share political views with your partner, or you ignore the issues you disagree on, or you separate.
What is 50501
E.S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's book Manufacturing Consent is a great place to start. You can skip most of the book honestly, (it's out of date), but the "5 Filters" part is like a decoder ring for American Legacy Media.
It's free to read online
Step 1: Make a new account on Reddit or Twitter...
Maybe teach him about passive voice, and then show examples of it in news media?
Not sure if something like this will do, but it is really concerning.
Great suggestion.
Maybe look for coverage of a topic or event from a few major US media sites/papers, and then at the same event from somewhere outside the US.
Etc.
I wonder if he’s open minded enough to accept information he wasn’t expecting, or one of those people for whom no proof will ever be good enough.
One of the easiest ways might be to have him take a look at an app like GroundNews, which displays biases of publications and shows blindspots in the media according to political lean. The biases and differences in headlines, presentation, language used, and what stories get reported at all by any given publication become very apparent.
Edit: Maybe reading Chomsky would be better. Ground News has problems.
Words to watch out for are things like "attacked", "bashed" or "slammed" instead of "criticised"; "forced" instead of "chose", eg "company forced to cut jobs"; "muzzled" or "gagged" instead of perhaps "censored". The implied violence charges the story emotionally, it's the most common form of news manipulation. They're trying to make you feel - usually fear or anger - rather than think.
My only complaint about Ground News (and most media bias meters in general) is that factual papers will almost always be listed as left-leaning. Because the Overton window has shifted so far to the right that cold hard facts presented exactly as they happened with zero spin now has a left-wing bias.
Yes, but he has to read a book. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
What exactly do you mean by "news is censored"? Are you saying that certain stories aren't getting the kinds of traction you think they should be getting? Or, are you saying that major events are not being covered at all because the government is threatening news organizations that cover them?
If he's into documentaries, see if he might like the Adam Curtis documentary HyperNormalisation.