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US authorities confirm death of reporter Gonzalo Lira in custody in Ukraine
"We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss," the US Department of State said
In before somebody asks if he was vaxxed.
In our news there still is NOTHING.
https://www.cnn.com/ no mention.
https://www.msnbc.com/ no mention
https://www.nytimes.com/ no mention
https://www.cbsnews.com/ no mention
A US journalist was imprisoned for 7 months and is dead, and no one finds this newsworthy material.
The news gets to pick what they talk about, when, and how they spin things, in social media what they label as mis/dis-information and censor... They “may” eventually and briefly mention this, but then they won’t make a big deal out of it and maybe even spin it in a derogatory way for Lira. Why? They support this war and the President responsible for it, Biden.
It must be nice when you have 75-80% of the MSM in your pocket.
When this war was exactly one year old, 214 Americans had been killed in action. Many more are crippled. Little coverage.
In the Latino media (owned by our liberal MSM), you hear nothing about Ukraine heavily recruiting in Central and South America, entire units being comprised by them, and the horrible losses they have suffered (in particular folks from Columbia and Brazil).
In our media, you see nothing about some of the weapons given to Ukraine ending up in Gaza, and in fact the video of such (clearly British made NLAW) gets taken down...
The canceling of elections in Ukraine gets little coverage, as does all the pro-Russian political officials that have been flat out assassinated (11 so far that are known of). The banning of opposition parties, closing of radio stations that air derogatory things, mass censorship and limits on free speech (they banned owning a HAM radio in Ukraine because you might listen to something you’re not supposed to) all gets little coverage.
But, if a neo-Nazi group wants to post on Western social media, that became acceptable a while back (I have to post the link since this is a stranger than fiction moment): https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/
Today, if you want true investigative or objective reporting, you are nearly forced to look at outlets that are wacky, fringe, conspiratorial, or smaller players like Tucker Carlson etc. The MSM is lockstep right down party lines.
The MSM may as well be seen as an unofficial extension and public relations branch of the Democratic party.