It is silly to compare Voice of America (an excellent journalistic institution with a great reputation), to the Washington Post (overall pretty good), to Russia Times (literal state propaganda). These are all very different sources and painting them with the same brush is just factually incorrect.

Here's some research for you:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-post/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rt-news/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/voice-of-america/

As for your second point, Trump is still walking free and he tried to overthrow the government. These things apparently do happen.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

For the love of god, listen to some Citations Needed and stop self-congratilating your media literacy because some fucking dork with a website tells you the New York Times and Washington Post aren't biased.

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

I'd thought that even the most liberal people on nü-Lemmy had at least read some Chomsky (or even watched the documentaries based on his work), but I guess we aren't even there yet.

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[–] match@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago (26 children)

your source says the VOA is a US government official news arm, you don't see how they might have a bias when reporting on Russia?

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[–] edward@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

mediabiasfactcheck, the site that squashes two complex spectrums (left vs right, unbiased vs biased) into a one dimensional line, making no distinction between centrism and being unbiased.

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[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Voice of America was put under the command of the USIA (US Information Agency) whose job was literally propaganda.

The US archives state the following:

306.2 Records of the International Information Administration (Department of State) 1945-53

History: Office of the Coordinator of Information established as an independent agency by Presidential order, July 11, 1941, to collect and analyze information bearing upon national security. Foreign Information Service established within OCOI to oversee shortwave propaganda broadcasts (Voice of America, VOA),

https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/306.html

I think that definitively proves you wrong.

Will this make you do one ounce of self-criticism or re-evaluate how you view the world? I sincerely doubt it.

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