Example from Twitter of corporate media disinformation on Cuba protests

[Milos Uzelac]

 

 

 

 

[Leo Gura]

Don't attribute to disinformation campaigns what you can attribute to self-bias and ignorance.

[Milos Uzelac]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

attribute to self-bias and ignorance.

I can understand this is in the case of Fox News and some other US media outlets but the Guardian press staff who are the supposedly left-wing    pro-Labour press in the UK to not be able to detect the 26th of July name for the the ruling party in Cuba on the picture and to present it on their cover as an anti-government protest while they are supposedly a left-wing publication calls into question the expertise and credentiality of people who work there if this was due to ignorance or more likely due to lazy self-bias of just quickly taking the picture from a well-established original corporate media complex 'credible' source AP and unquestioningly using it as a cover for the article while somehow missing that those protestors on the picture are holding slogans for more than a half a century old government ruling party in Cuba. What standard and knowledge required for professional journalism. 

Edited July 14, 2021 by Milos Uzelac

[Milos Uzelac]

4 hours ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

The President of Haiti was recently assassinated, and there were massive protests in Chile to overturn its' neoliberal constitution, but no one attributes that to failures of Liberalism. Bias bias bias on the past of Americans.

The people of Cuba are protesting over economic hardship that was caused by Coronavirus. Kind of hard to treat a disease when your nation has been EMABRGOED by the United States ever since its' Communist revolution, and then we blame the economic hardship caused by the embargo on Communism.

 

Yes it is possible that they are not even protests against the established ruling party but just people venting off their grievances and wanting more accountability from the government and action due to economic hardships - power cuts, slow vaccination rate etc. and going out in the streets to exercise their rights for those demands and to be heard. 

 

Edited July 14, 2021 by Milos Uzelac

[Leo Gura]

Just by being American a self-bias is created. Nearly all American media and journalism is self-biased in that way.

[Milos Uzelac]

45 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Just by being American a self-bias is created. Nearly all American media and journalism is self-biased in that way.

This I presume applies to all nationalities and descents in the world and for the majority of people living in all countries currently existing today, when being programmed, instructed to and stuck to act in that identity for the collective constraint. 

For example I developed a bias to look more favorably to a Yugoslav or common South Slav identity that I feel is also a part of me then the Serbian one because I feel from my POV it fosters more tolerant and healthy relationships with people in the region where I live with whom I share an almost exact same language but I cannot exercise that identity in my environment freely because nobody here believes in it anymore and there is no shared consensus about it. It would be akin as if telling the people here I am an Atlantean from some past glorious kingdom and of course some other people that lived within the territory of that country never viewed or accepted that identity favourbly as it felt they are not the part of the same cultural and ethnic descent as other people who have claimed to form that country on that basis and was therefore seen alien and foreign imposed on them such as the Kosovar Albanians even though there existed an official policy in Yugoslavia where you could choose what nationality you identify with based on your own beliefs, preference, feelings or degrees of patriotism on what you identify with the most, for example Serbian or Yugoslavian.

It seems to me here that there are degrees of collective identity to which one is willing to accept. 

Edited July 15, 2021 by Milos Uzelac

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, Milos Uzelac said:

This I presume applies to all nationalities and descents in the world

Of course

Whatever culture you grew up in created a massive collective self-bias in you. This is nothing specific to Americans. Although Americans seem to make real asses of themselves in this regard because American culture is so dominant around the world that it makes Americans especially blind to it. Like fish in water. American culture is so dominant, so the norm, so the default position, that it does not even get recognized as a culture -- it just gets taken as reality. Especially something like capitalism or stage Orange business practices. These things are not seen as culture.