Labour Party members have signed a mass resignation letter, calling out Starmer's rightward direction, with the majority joining Your Party

Labour Party members have signed a mass resignation letter, calling out Starmer’s rightward direction, with the majority joining Your Party

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    245·
    12 days ago

    It is not balanced, fair, or independent reporting.

    1. They don’t claim to be balanced. Quite the opposite. They are very open about their beliefs. https://www.thecanary.co/about
    2. Define what you mean by fair? Bothsidesing is the worst thing you can do as a news site. I’m happy that they are not trying to find the middle ground between fascism and socialism in their coverage.
    3. As far as I know they are ad and reader funded without taking corporate or lobbyist money.
    • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
      106·
      12 days ago

      Jumping in here, they’re fond of distorting the facts to make better outrage bait. They still take every opportunity to claim Palestine Action were targeting planes that were refuelling Israeli jets, the problem with that being the British refuelling system is incompatible with the one Israel uses.

      Take an angle, sure. But don’t lie to do so.

    • ashughes@feddit.ukEnglish
      42·
      11 days ago

      Bothsidesing whereby an organisation presents propaganda from the left and the right as equally factual to construct a straw man of a middle ground as truth is definitely bad, as is presenting one side’s propaganda as the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

      I expect any legitimate news outlet to inform the public of the nuance on a given topic because it is within the nuance where the truth often lies. It is then helpful and informative to present how “both sides” are trying to frame that topic by excluding the nuance, thereby obscuring the truth. Journalism as a public service is there to inform me about what is happening in depth and in a debiased manner so I can think critically about it (if the UK has any news outlets that meet this standard, that’s news to me). Painting real, hard journalism as “bothsidesing” only serves to destroy the concept of nuance, which is just about the only thing both sides can agree on: destroy the middle ground and they’ll be able to keep us pawns fighting forever.

      You may think having a Nigel Farage or Fox News for the left brings balance but it doesn’t. It only serves to keep us fighting each other rather than fighting the status quo. If you’re reading the Canary solely for entertainment and are able to consistently view it as such then fair enough I guess, just don’t call it news.

      To be clear, I am not claiming that you personally are participating in any of the above, just calling out a general worrying trend I am witnessing in our discourse.

    • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
      510·
      12 days ago

      Bothsidesing is the worst thing you can do as a news site.

      Bothsiding ? Oh we’re turning it into a verb now are we? OK. Cool.

      I have to disagree with that. Not pretending to world is simple and presenting a balanced view of a story is a mature aged responsible thing to do as a news site. Obviously people will disagree but to hide information or distort it is not news. It’s dirty propaganda.

      We need less of these kinds of site that amplify hate towards others and pretend the world is simpler than it is. No wonder we’re so fucked and divided as a country. The exact same thing Farage is doing to right wingers, sites like these are doing to left wingers.

      I have easy answers for you. Oh and by the way everyone that disagrees with me is some form of evil.

      FFS.

      • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
        72·
        12 days ago

        It’s a thing, though apparently I missed a hyphen. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/both-sides

        Not pretending to world is simple and presenting a balanced view of a story is a mature aged responsible thing to do as a news site. <…> It’s dirty propaganda.

        So in other words become corporate news and support elite class agenda of class divide by doing “fair” reporting that prevents any meaningful reform as a matter of policy. Great idea.

        There are facts and then there is perspective. Facts should be presented accurately. Not hiding your perspective in the reporting is not “propoganda”. It’s more honest reporting since everyone knows where you stand and can decide for themselves how they feel about it.

        We need less of these kinds of site that amplify hate towards others and pretend the world is simpler than it is.

        Can you source this? I’m not aware of them amplifying hate.

      • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        41·
        11 days ago

        presenting a balanced view of a story is a mature aged responsible thing to do as a news site

        no it isn’t, it’s lazy thinking for children