{"id":20407,"date":"2016-05-04T05:57:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20407"},"modified":"2016-05-04T05:57:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T10:57:04","slug":"on-border-incident-us-sources-give-one-perspective-own-while-russian-source-gives-multiple-including-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20407","title":{"rendered":"On Border Incident, US Sources Give One Perspective, Own, While Russian Source Gives Multiple, Including US"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Border Incident, US Sources Give One Perspective, Own, While Russian Source Gives Multiple, Including US<\/a><\/h3>\n
These two stories make a fine illustration of why it is crucial to read broadly, pushing one\u2019s comfort zone and challenging the tendency towards confirmation bias.<\/div>\n
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This one<\/a>, by Buzzfeed (an outlet funded, for example, by a $200 million dollar investment from the NBC Universal corporation, a division of Comcast and General Electric), reports on Trump saying the US should shoot down Russian planes when they intercept US spy-planes that have their transponders turned off and are buzzing the Russian border as the US continues to advance its encirclement of Russia with militant bases.<\/p>\n

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This one<\/a>, by RT, which is funded by the Russian public (like the BBC is funded by the British public), reports on the same event.<\/p>\n

If the reader is a US citizen and only reads the Buzzfeed story, it will be unclear where the plane interception happened.\u00a0 Due to the perspective and suggestions presented in the piece, and depending on how informed the reader is, it would be easy to think the event happened near the US border, rather than the Russian border.<\/p>\n

The reader will receive mainly Trump\u2019s quote, which says that Russia is taunting and disrespecting the US and violating the Geneva Convention agreements (by intercepting the US war-ships spy-planes buzzing its border ahead of encroaching US nuclear and militant bases \u2013 this part goes unsaid.)
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No other side or context is given at all, including that Trump, same as Hillary Clinton, enthusiastically advocates torture, murder, and aggression (as does Sanders for the latter two), actual violations of the Geneva Convention the US commits continually.<\/p>\n

No other side is given to ask what the US would do if Russian spy-planes and nuclear military bases were encroaching on the US border.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Border Incident, US Sources Give One Perspective, Own, While Russian Source Gives Multiple, Including US These two stories make a fine illustration of why it is crucial to read broadly, pushing one\u2019s comfort zone and challenging the tendency towards confirmation bias. This one, by Buzzfeed (an outlet funded, for example, by a $200 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[525,3209,13715,13714,8114,694,827,5510],"class_list":["post-20407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-military","tag-nbc","tag-perspective","tag-robert-barsocchini","tag-rt-news","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20408,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20407\/revisions\/20408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}