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    Re: Er .... hang on. You're running before you can walk, chum. Archived Message

    Posted by Mark Doran on June 14, 2023, 9:16 pm, in reply to "Re: Er .... hang on. You're running before you can walk, chum."

    >Thanks for pointing out that Declassified UK is
    >still sh*te on Ukraine conflict.

    While it's possible that the straightforward, healthy idiocy of the 'normal' person is to blame there, I think we can see something different in the 'alternative' media's (Canary, Novara, Declassified, etc) slavish adherence to several central, mandatory narratives.

    I have two explanations. (i) They don't want to frighten off their newly acquired followings -- for whom 'You know, Russia actually isn't the bad guy here' would be a serious shock and immediately impact the 'smug liberal' income stream; (ii) Since they don't want to be poor, I mean 'alternative', forever, but rather aspire to enter the 'mainstream' at the earliest possible high-earning moment, they feel the need to protect themselves against some future, pearl-clutching 'mainstream' host shrieking 'But you are the people who thought Russia wasn't the bad guy!'

    Basically, insofar as alternative media is a money-grubbing operation with an eye on the main chance, we should expect it to be bent, at least selectively. Remember how that little shit from Novara bought her seat in the mainstream studios by throwing Corbyn under the bus?

    M.

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