Very interesting read. I still can't fully embrace Bukele myself, but that's no excuse for what went on.
436 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford 8 Feb
What? No! Say it isn't so!
Seriously. Everyone has bias. I believe most media outlets have agendas which is different. Much worse. I can excuse and understand bias. Bias is honest. The term "media bias" is one of those terms that has been around so long and used so much that its a hard one to change but I'm trying to use agenda.
Same goes for "main stream" media. I think Rush Limbaugh was the first person I heard use that one. I don't like it either. I prefer what Michael Malice says, "The corporate press". They have agendas. They aren't bias and they sure aren't main stream. They just have a lot of corporate interests and money.
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53 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 8 Feb
I hope this isn't the prelude to another CIA inspired overthrow of a Central American government.
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329 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 8 Feb
It would not surprise me if there is some big scandal, coup attempt, or even military / drug cartel war. If he poses enough of a threat or doesn't play ball, nothing is off the table. That's my two sats.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @weaker 9 Feb
Your hypothesis will be proven when Big Brother catches Bukele for money laundering.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 9 Feb
The bias is one sided and egregious. The hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed. The drive by media is beyond biased- they are taking orders from one party, the inner party
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329 sats \ 2 replies \ @xz 9 Feb
Media bias/media agenda
I don't think there's much difference between the terms.
I do know that, The Guardian is biased and it also has an agenda. You could say that The Guardian is biased towards N. Bukele and a pro-Bitcoin government because it has an agenda and that agenda is to support Washington policy, E.U policy and to an extend to be neutral towards national policy that represent a significant business interest for its sponsors and its stakeholders. When it comes to UK politics, it seems to have clear bias towards creating a division between the two party system and favoring Red Team over Blue. That is the Guardian agenda (as well as content which is uncritical towards any of the other stakeholders that dictate its editorial policy.) I would not even call it corporate media. I'd call it propaganda.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 9 Feb
At least the guardian is openly biased. They don’t claim to be objective. BBC on the other hand is owned by the government literally. During the 1930s, BBC censored Churchill
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz 9 Feb
An interesting point.
The Guardian is plainly biased without any illusion that its agenda purports to give a fair or balanced view. As opposed to flatly shilling government propaganda masquerading as the biblical truth. I'm not sure if either should be taken more seriously, they both seem highly questionable sources of information.
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329 sats \ 3 replies \ @riberet19 8 Feb
In my country the media have riddled him with bullets, they are terrified to see everything he is achieving moving away from the nonsense of Woke thinking, long life Bukele
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 8 Feb
You know more than we do. Please tell us more.
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329 sats \ 1 reply \ @riberet19 9 Feb
What do you want to know my friend? How did the media bullet Bukele down? it is typical of the mass media here in my country Spain, everything that comes out of their socialist line of thought is a danger and a reason for ridicule, they do it with Milei, with Bukele, with Donald Trump... Of course, they don't do it with Maduro or Hugo Chávez at the time, that's an enviable policy for them, I don't think there's much more to say, of course, the mass media are totally subsidized by the Spanish state.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 9 Feb
Do you live in El Salvador?
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298 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 9 Feb
Bukele is an outsider, the same reason the corporate press hates Milei and Trump
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @03c43494a9 9 Feb
Trump is just an idiot
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 9 Feb
No he isn’t. If he was the establishment would not worry about him
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298 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 8 Feb
My life experience doesn't allow me to embrace any politician. This goes double for one I bare know anything about. I think its cool that he's using bitcoin. Wild what he's done if we are to believe the positive stories. If he's doing good things for sure he will be a target.
I've said it before. We don't need to lionize politicians or put any hope in them but I'm not gonna waste time tearing Bukele down just so I can win points with others.
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298 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 8 Feb
One thing’s for sure. Bukele’s name will go down in the history books. Interesting to see how he has polarised public perception
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @weaker 9 Feb
Much of the journalism industry is losing money and they accept payment to produce news. There are some shady guys hiding in the background, making this kind of news.
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