Global Times, a major Chinese propaganda tabloid,
The Daily Mail, 🤣
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Pots and kettles eh 🤣
Why use the word "claim" for something that's painfully and obviously true? 🤔
Context: global times is not a "newspaper". It's Chinese nationalist English media. Their proper state run media is much more formal and reserved. For example look at Xinhua.
where's the lie
NGL, I had already learned of collapse and how cooked we were back then, but I thought it was exaggerated and that we had some time to go before things really started to pick up....
Global Times is not China. It’s one news source so statements made by Global Times, especially in the editorials aren’t inherently statements made my China. They are run by individuals who sent the articles in. To claim that China made this statement is ridiculous and would be akin to saying that the US made a statement on something because of a single article NPR ran or that the UK made a statement because of a single article run by the BBC.
Propaganda about the enemy usually doesn’t require altering the truth much. Propaganda about the own state of affairs is a completely different story.
That's actually not true, with respect to altering the truth. Usually the quantity or quality of a single truth is heavily distorted, or outright fabricated. See Iraq's WMD that never matetialized.
Fair enough. Gotta think about this a little more I guess.
Very frequently propaganda relies on a single kernal of truth, and then changing the quantity, quality, or both of said truth. All it needs is some level of justification, then it can be molded like clay into whatever you need it to say.
When the audience/readership has no effective way of fact-checking what is said then they can (and do) just make it up to suit their narrative. Anything that contradicts the narrative is an "unreliable source."