• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    This isn’t actually true. The vast majority of the press, something like 90%, is controlled by mainstream, mass media. These corporations are owned by a tiny few, and recieve funding from the state for the purposes of propagandizing. The last 10% doesn’t control the narrative, because what’s true doesn’t necessarily overpower what’s commonly reported.

    The fact that I can link you the prolewiki article on the DPRK as well as the wikipedia article on North Korea and both will agree in some areas and disagree in others doesn’t mean people compare by merit, but by exposure.

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      1 day ago

      Never heard of prolewiki but this is all I needed to read to know that it’s total bullshit. Also where are you getting that 90% figure from?

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        Prolewiki is a Marxist-Leninist wikipedia, you can check the sources directly if you want. My point is that, again, media isn’t popular by merit but by exposure, as private media cares only about its own profits.

        What on the prolewiki link is wrong? It is biased, just like wikipedia is, but that doesn’t mean the information is wrong, either.

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          You know I read some more articles on there and it really is biased but so are more mainstream sources. I would like to see more sources cited (some srticles are better than others) like here there are a lot of claims with no source to back them up (even if some of the claims are true). The whole website appears more like an opinion piece than a source of reliable information

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            Some articles are more in-depth and well-sourced, others not so much. It’s a volunteer project. You can also look at, say, the article on The People’s Republic of China, which has 132 sources listed. It’s an attempt at creating a pro-communist, Marxist-Leninist wiki that is well-sourced and fact-based, and thus the more important topics get filled out first.