• wildbus8979
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    4 months ago

    Sup with all the state department news you post?

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, their account is only a week old, and already has 110 posts, mostly VOA. Real sketchy.

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      4 months ago

      FWIW, I follow VOA in several languages (not my only or even major source of information) and their reporting is better than many major news sources (English language and ones in from my country).

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        4 months ago

        There’s a few state sponsored media companies that are actually quite reputable. Al Jazeera has generally be seen as pretty neutral on reporting. Although there’s some exceptions, but not as much as one would expect.

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          4 months ago

          Also depends what topics you’re looking at, I would not look to AJ for news about Qatar… Nor would I look at VOA for anything related to US foreign policy.

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          4 months ago

          There’s a difference between state owned media like AJ, CBC, BBC, and a media owned by the state department specifically created to influence and benefit american foreign policy.