u/RedStarCap - originally from r/GenZhou
The title is my question. Although I am not very sceptical of news coming from the news sources I mentioned, like CGTN, I still think it would be important for me to have pretty strong reasons for convincing my liberal friends to read articles by CGTN to debunk a few myths they have on China.
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u/california_sugar - originally from r/GenZhouThere’s nothing to convince you of. All news has a bias. And that truth doesn’t always lie directly in the middle. So you either choose a source you can trust or not, but no one here is going to tell you something from a definitive and absolute source of truth.
u/AngryTeaDrinker - originally from r/GenZhouGenerally you want credible news, not the news company / paper etc. Read the news carefully, fact check their sources, and be skeptical if there isn’t any solid sources. Does news articles just circlejerk and cite BBC, which cites Daily Mail, and so on? Or do articles refer directly to the primary source? These are basic literature search that, although taught in school, but greatly undermined when it comes to information gathering.
It makes no sense to apply faith onto any agencies, instead we should effectively filter / analyze the information that we base our judgments and rational thinking on.