View From South Africa

Western media outlets have often resorted to dumbing down societies by reducing global events to shallow soundbites or clickbait that reinforces convenient stereotypes, writes Gillian Schutte

Introduction to story from IOL - Independent Online, a South African news website:

Why Compete with a Dying Media? A Call for a Radical New Global Media By Gillian Schutte

The moment has come to question the wisdom of continuing to battle a wounded but still formidable behemoth: Western corporate media. For decades, it has held an almost unassailable grip on the global narrative, buoyed by wealth, political patronage, and an entrenched belief that it alone possesses the authority to define reality. Yet the years of reflexive sensationalism, patent double standards, and top-down editorial dictates have eroded the very legitimacy Western outlets once took for granted. The cracks in their façade are now impossible to ignore, with disillusioned viewers, readers, and even former insiders acknowledging that something profoundly dysfunctional lurks at the heart of so-called “mainstream” news.

She goes on for a bit and it's pretty good.

 Via RT. I am glad I can still see RT. One more reason I am glad I live in Amerika.

I probably look at a hundred headlines a day. I mean it doesn't take long, maybe five minutes. What eats up the time is when something sounds promising, so I take the time to read it. Maybe one or two out the hundred. I course I always look at the memes from Midwest Chick, Busted Nuckles and the Village Hemorrhoid. I enjoy them but the seldom get reposted here. There is a limit to the number of keystrokes I can make in a day and some days it ain't very many. Tonight I think I'm making up the week.

Anyway, every so often, something catches my eye, I take time to read it and decide to repost it or link to it, like here.