Steve James wrote:Why do you suspect that Tass or Pravda or RT reports are factual but other sources aren't? They're just mainstream media, Russian style. Journalists who don't follow the party line often disappear.
How about citing a Japanese or Chinese news report? What do they say?
Does this link work.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2017 ... es,Russian
This is a side note, but I spend a lot of time trying to get a variety of news sources into my diet, so thank you very much for the link. Cheers
There is no rule about large media companies that one can trust. It's just about trying to take in enough different sources that I would liken to a situation of driving when visibility is poor. You can't see the road directly, but it's still there, and the constant movement of the vehicle and one's eyes (like alternating new sources) allows for patterns of shadows to emerge that define the landscape, haha.
Sometimes RT is shit. It was almost immediately obvious in 2014 when they began focusing on stories meant to sow discord and I've said it many times before. However, there is often a benefit to viewing media of other countries for the major players. i do check RT a few times a week. I also check a couple of other Russian sources, one of which I linked for that video, it wasn't RT.
What can I say? I followed the Syrian war from start to finish as best as I could, closer than any other foreign policy topic for six years now, and I believe the Russians had the consistently correct foreign policy, which biases me toward accepting—to a certain extent—statements from their Foreign Ministry, such as these. I don't mind admitting it, one eventually can reach a conclusion and the Russians did the things that reduced the chaos from non-state actors (terrorists), while the USA had a variety of policies that revealed a deeply fractured govt. which actually supports non-state actors (terrorists). This is clear in Syria, In Libya, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, etc.
BTW, your link is about the Tomahawk cruise missile attack of almost a year ago. For some unknown reason, I want to credit Trump for the fecklessness of that act of war. I can only hope that Turkey will leave NATO and strengthen its bilateral relations with Russia, and indirectly with Syria for policies that will lead to greater order and the rebuilding of Syria in order to prevent the use of terrorists by factions within the USA.