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by phear 4887 days ago
It may or may not be a conspiracy but i have seen numerous examples where big name media outlets like CNN have made glaring inaccuracies in reporting stories. For example reports on the current situation in Congo(DRC) differ from what local reporters on the ground are reporting and are often merely used as tools in a wider international political game(Push a story to put pressure on a group) http://in2eastafrica.net/simplistic-narrative-used-to-distor....

Also sometimes shocking is the content their editors deem fit for news(Was once shocked to see L.Lohan going to court as a headline story on CNN International, not CNN USA)

Again there might not be a big media club deciding which stories to cover or which agenda to push but individual media houses are clearly biased in their coverage of selected news stories. You just have to watch them long enough to notice it.