Friday 29th of March 2024

bad news…..

June 14 (Reuters) - A growing number of people are selectively avoiding important news stories such as the coronavirus pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the cost-of-living crisis, according to a report released on Tuesday.

While the majority of people surveyed consume news regularly, 38% said they often or sometimes avoid the news – up from 29% in 2017 – the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism said in its annual Digital News Report. Around 36% – particularly those under 35 – say that the news lowers their mood.

 

Trust in news is also declining, and is lowest in the United States. On average, 42% of people said they trust most news most of the time; that figure has fallen in almost half the countries in the report and risen in seven.

"Large numbers of people see the media as subject to undue political influence, and only a small minority believe most news organisations put what's best for society ahead of their own commercial interest," wrote Reuters Institute Director Rasmus Kleis Nielsen in the report, which is based on an online survey of 93,432 people, conducted in 46 markets.

 

Younger audiences are increasingly accessing the news via platforms such as TikTok, and have a weaker connection to news brands, the report found.

Each week 78% of 18- to 24-year-olds access news via aggregators, search engines and social media. Forty percent of that age group uses TikTok each week, with 15% saying they use it to find, discuss or share news.

The growth in the number of people who pay for online news may be leveling off, with a large proportion of digital subscriptions going to a few national brands. Across 20 countries where payment for news is widespread, 17% of survey respondents paid for any online news, the same figure as last year. Payment for local news varies across markets.

 

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is funded by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Thomson Reuters (TRI.TO).

The poll has a margin of error of 2-3 percentage points up or down.

 

 

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crooked news…….

The American establishment believes that everyone on earth is as braindead as fat, vaxed, drug-addled, porn-addicted, negro-worshiping, homosexual Americans. They think they can just keep declaring themselves to be the center of morality in the universe, keep declaring that something is true simply because they said it.

Meanwhile, everyone in the world who isn’t a fat slob or a stupid slut is beginning to question these baseless and totally unfounded assertions.

RT:

Beijing, unlike the United States, is seeking peace in Ukraine, and it is up to the people to decide who is on “the right side of history,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Thursday, responding to Washington’s criticism of China’s stance on the conflict.

China has been heavily criticized by the US for its refusal to condemn the Russian offensive in Ukraine, as well as its cooperation with Moscow. On Wednesday, a US Department of State spokesperson accused Beijing of “still standing with Russia … echoing its propaganda … denying Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine” before saying that “nations that side with Vladimir Putin will inevitably find themselves on the wrong side of history.”

Remember: this is just hours after the Ukraine rained down missiles on residential buildings in Donetsk for no clear purpose beyond causing totally random destruction.

 

Shooting missiles at residential buildings you know for a fact have no military targets is the single purest form of war crime. Russia, on the other hand, has not committed any war crimes.

When the Ukraine fired on these residential buildings, I said “the US didn’t even do this in Iraq.” A Marine vet friend responded to this with the classic meme....

And I said that yes, America did bomb residential buildings in Iraq, but there’s a big difference between bombing an apartment building where soldiers are stationed and firing RPGs, and what the Ukraine did this week, which was fire long-range missiles at residential buildings and civilian infrastructure where they knew for a fact that there were no military targets.

Russia has also fired on residential buildings in the Ukraine, but they’ve all had military stationed in them, because like the Iraqis, Ukraine puts military installations in residential areas. All the way back in March, the Washington Post was dying in darkness, worried that Ukraine’s use of these tactics would mean it would be impossible to charge Putin with war crimes.

 

Read that article. This has come up repeatedly, though the media rarely highlights it – the West is constantly accusing Russia of war crimes, but all the experts admit this will be impossible because of the Ukrainians’ use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes.

The other “war crimes” all just turned out to be complete hoaxes, and actually more Ukrainian war crimes – the Mariupol theatre, the “Bucha massacre,” the bombing of the Donetsk train station – everyone knows at this point that these were false flags by the Ukraine forces, which is why they are not mentioned anymore. The media dropped all three of those stories after Russia was able to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that they didn’t do any of this.

 

China is not a bunch of soda pop sucking burger-chuggers high on Prozac, and they can assess all of this like normal people – like I am assessing it now. China also doesn’t have a completely censored media like the US has. No one in the world has a media as censored as the American media, other than North Korea. North Korea is literally the only example of a country with a media that is more strictly controlled than the American media.

Who do you think the rest of the world is going to side with?

“On the Ukraine issue, China has always independently assessed the situation on the basis of the historical context and the merits of the issue. We always stand on the side of peace and justice,” Wang Wenbin said.

He then compared China’s foreign policies with those of the US, and his results did not favor Washington. He said that while the US has been pushing NATO expansion eastward and bringing conflict “back to Europe,” China has been committed to dialogue and cooperation.

“Whereas the US has clamored for a fight ‘to the last Ukrainian’ and fueled the conflict, China has actively promoted peace talks and called on the world to enable negotiations, not fighting, to continue between Russia and Ukraine,” he said.

Again: this isn’t debatable.

There was no possible chance that “Ukraine” people could “win the war.” From the beginning, that was probably impossible, and it was definitely 100% impossible as soon as it became clear that the sanctions would not “collapse the Russian economy.”

But instead of yielding, the West has sent untold thousands of Ukrainians to die, caused the destruction of entire cities, for literally no reason anyone can understand.

And of course – this whole thing was started by the US throwing a color revolution in the Ukraine in 2014, overthrowing an elected government, and then rapidly militarizing the Ukraine.

These are all just facts that are not debatable. No one can seriously debate any of this, hence the totally controlled US media which just published insane nonsense.

After the Ukraine bombardment on residential buildings in Donetsk earlier this week, blue check American media outlets claimed that Russia was bombing itself.

 

 

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US actor Ben Stiller has described the scenes in war-torn Ukraine as "distressing", "shocking" and on a bigger scale than any movie.

Stiller met President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, in his role as goodwill ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR).

The Hollywood star told Zelensky that he was his hero, and complimented his previous acting career.

"It's my first time coming to an area that's in conflict," he told the BBC.

"But it's really strange because when you drive into the country, really in the west of the country, you don't feel the conflict, except for the curfew at night where it gets very quiet and a little bit eerie.

"[In] Lviv, people seem to be going back to life as normal, trying to as much as possible.

 

"And then as you get closer and closer to Kyiv, into the east of the country, you start to see the roadblocks and see the destruction, which is really shocking when you haven't seen anything like that up close."

In the interview with BBC Breakfast on Tuesday, Stiller, who is known for films like There's Something About Mary and Dodgeball, added: "I'm an actor, so the first thing I go to is like, 'Oh, it looks like a movie'. But the scale of it is even bigger and it's real, so that's really distressing."

 

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https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-61879539

 

This little twerp should have spent a couple of years in the Donbass region while the Zelenskyyy-y nazis bombed the place, killing mothers and child, or even assassinated leaders of independence, on a regular basis.... I never liked US actor Ben Stiller's crappy comedy and now this extends why.....

 

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