- cross-posted to:
- europe@hexbear.net
- europe@lemmy.ml
the writer has a strong russophobic perspective; i’m surprised you posted this.
That’s true for pretty much any mainstream western publication. The fact that the publication is vehemently anti Russian is precisely what gives the admissions so much weight. For a long time western media kept pretending that Europe being cut off from Russian energy didn’t really have any significant impact on the economy. Now mainstream western media openly admits that the consequences have been disastrous.
In general, I find it’s really valuable to read media from different sources, including ones you don’t agree with. Seeing the narrative they’re building is itself useful, but also it lets you check your own understanding of things. It’s always good to see if you’re able to spot the biases, and the inconsistencies in their narrative. That’s how you train yourself to read and analyze media critically.
Retreating into a bubble of only reading sources that agree with your own biases leads to living in an invented reality the way liberals do. You become completely disconnected from what’s actually happening in the world when you only follow a sliver of sources that say the things you like to hear.
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It’s Bloomberg. Nobody expects it to be otherwise.

