I do try to avoid spaces with an over abundance of other Americans. Largely because I get way more than my share of American news pushed at me on all fronts every day and those people just tend to echo what CNN/Fox has to say about something over and over.

But to other nationalities, any space with a US presence is regarded as "CIA controlled propaganda and those Americans are all slaves of their rich overlords and their capitalism is the singular reason the world is shit"

Believe it or not, American media exists on a spectrum too, just like anywhere. Ironically, the people who spout this uninformed nonsense remind me of the lowest-common-denominator types of Americans who are afraid of Chinese immigrants and healthcare because "communism".

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't regard any place with the US presence as a CIA clubhouse, but you must admit, The Default Country for many on the internet, here included, is the US. So yeah, most of the news are the US news

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And to add, even our so-called "left-leaning" news outlets have a STRONG pro-establishment pro-capitalist bias, but we're so immersed in it that I feel like it's super hard to recognize. Anarchist and Marxist sources often get called out for their obvious bias, but guess what? CNN, MSNBC, WaPo... those are just as biased, but they're more aligned to the status quo so we fail to see it.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Usually when people complain about bias, it's because the news source is promoting something undesirable. If you agree with the viewpoints and ideology, then you're not going to complain about bias usually, unless there's some politics at play.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Yes exactly. This is also why those sites that proclaim to measure bias tend to be utterly subjective. They themselves show bias in their criteria and methodology