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  • Where are you getting the number six from? He’s only got the WSJ. Including tabloids he does have NYP, but the UK doubles the trouble on that front with both Daily Mail and The Sun. The US has got the New York Times, The Hill. And the US has got tons of amazing news magazines to show for it: New Yorker, Press Gazette, Reason, (and recently Newsweek got good,) plus the left Jacobin and Mother Jones. The UK has, as far as I’m aware, Spectator. There’s also online news like Wired, 404media, Vox. CNN is as good as the BBC though that might change soon, but we still have tons like CNN like NBC. (The US has also got the AP but I’ll let this one slide since the UK has got Reuters.)

    News is news. Tell me which newspaper other than maybe The Guardian is your left in the UK.



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    i don’t get this claim.

    1. why NPR? why all that work just to get into NPR? they’re not prestigious at all. they’re the chronically underfunded local news source.
    2. i’ve never heard of Leonard D. Shapiro before. it sounds like he’s just an average computer scientist who actually did research. being “professor emeritus of computer science at Portland State University” is not a brag; i don’t see “influential” at all. it looks like his article was only created by somebody searching up things about Ari Shapiro.
    3. i just searched up probably the biggest NPR journalist, Nell Greenfieldboyce, and she’s got absolutely nothing mentioned in parentage.
    4. nine out of ten times i search up a NYT author i can’t find anything wikipedia-level about their parents.




  • I was made aware of an article which appeared in The Hollywood Reporter (first published in The Jerusalem Post) announcing a date in Tel Aviv, Israel, for a performance of a piece called ‘The Music Critic,’ one of the numerous classical music collaborations and live theatre performances I have been touring in for nearly two decades and which I have performed in 47 countries at last count. The Tel Aviv date was meant to be one of several touring stops throughout Europe and the Middle East.

    Written and conceived by Russian-German Jewish violinist and composer Aleksey Igudesman, The Music Critic blends classical music with comedy and scathing reviews of some of history’s most celebrated composers. Malkovich embodies an “evil critic” who insults iconic composers including Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven and Frédéric Chopin.






  • The Tiananmen part you mentioned is slightly inaccurate. It is important for us to recognize that censorship has far evolved from Stalin cartoony into disseminated dilutions to control the truth. China still covers it but waters it down as “The Spring–Summer Political Turmoil of 1989” (“1989年春夏之交的政治风波”); posts that refer to it with different names are removed, but the official narrative can be perfectly searched for and appears in documentaries. After all, the best way to plug an artificial hole is to leave no gaps.

    Here’s an example of how the domestic internet covers it:

    In the mid-to-late 1980s, with the rapid economic development, inflation increased, corruption was serious, and social contradictions were highlighted [26]. At the turn of spring and summer in 1989, a few counter-revolutionaries based in Beijing incited riots against the Communist Party and against socialism, but under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, they were eventually quickly put down. After that, Jiang Zemin took over as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, forming the core of the third-generation central leaders of China. In order to stabilize the economic situation and curb inflation, the Fifth Congress of the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made a decision to calm and rectify the social economy for three years.

    Hopefully the problem with this description is obvious.

    In spite of their efforts, you would be hard-pressed to find someone in a Chinese city who doesn’t know what the CCP is censoring on this topic, thankfully.