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Biden administration issues “weasel words” assurances to secure Assange’s extradition (www.wsws.org)

submitted 1 year ago by RobotToaster@mander.xyz to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

None of this was acknowledged by the Democratic Party-aligned New York Times, which sunk to new lows in its reporting of the case by citing some of Stella Assange’s comments while excising her reference to the Biden administration’s “weasel words”, allowing it to run a totally uncritical article headlined, “U.S. Lays Out Protections for Assange if He Is Extradited”.

Everything about the NYT comes out suspect, lately. I know they’ve been a mouthpiece for power, but they barely even try to hide it anymore. Maybe I’ve only just woke up and began to notice.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

You have to take what the NYT prints with a pinch of salt. As you do with every outlet these days. They all have their biases and they all want to game their potential readers into picking up a copy or clicking a link. We ourselves come with our own biases that only fuels this poor quality journalism in the long run. We click and share the links that appeal to our confirmation biases.

It's pretty rare to find a high quality neutral outlet that reports on more than the local level these days. Just the facts, what's wrong with that? Facts don't sell unfortunately, we need the opinions too.

Read multiple sources to get a broader understanding I suppose. But who the fuck has time for that, eh? Ooo a poodle tee hee hee hee hee 🐩!