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In reply to the discussion: Will air assault against IS in Syria be used to effect regime change? [View all]KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Every source of news, from FOX to Pravda to Mother Jones to Twitter to YouTube videos with misleading titles or editing, is presenting ONE angle on events.Whether in text or video, a news story is basically a combination of facts and spin/analysis.
By focusing on the facts (actors, actions, events, sequence of events) presented in a story and ignoring, or perhaps unspinning, the spin one can acquire pieces of the greater truth. I treat RT with that same skepticism, ignoring or handicapping their spin, and I find that they present some facts that are otherwise missing.
A big part of propaganda is how issues get framed -- for example, they can present only a slanted and limited range of choices, like 'should we go to war now? or wait until ISIS attacks us?' By design propaganda can spin the truth by leaving out parts of it. So the way to get all the missing pieces left out by one source is to look to one or more other, very different sources.