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NPR investigation of a Chinese celebrity dissident leads news orgs to retract stories (www.npr.org)

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[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And who's paying for that shaping

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That one's easy, it's our beloved oligarchs of course. But you're absolutely right, that's ultimately what you have to look at. Whose interests does the cultural hegemony we live under serve.

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

Lenin, 1913

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 days ago

We'd be living in a much better world today if more people read Lenin.