An important lesson that you can learn from the Gaza bullshit that’s going on is that all media has an ideology and cannot ever be trusted to be completely unbiased, especially the ones that present themselves as unbiased.

The truth is always found somewhere in the middle. But sometimes it’s really, really far away from some of these propaganda outlets. Often times it’s really, really close to a particular news source. Sadly, we can’t just say “the BBC is often really-really-close to the truth”, therefore they are always really-really-close to the truth. Sometimes, on certain topics, they are just spouting propaganda, and they always will be, because that’s their ideological position and what they are posting will always be consistent with that ideological position, not with truth. They can still, as part of the ideological position, post a lot of stuff that is if not exactly the truth, very very close to it. But they can never be trusted to always do that, they will always have an agenda and an ideology.

Consider the source doesn’t mean “find something truly unbiased and ignore everything else” it means understand why the source is saying the things they’re saying, the way they’re saying them, and why they’re omitting what they’re omitting, and compare that against other sources doing the same things, or different things, based on the understanding that you’ve developed of their biases, and also to develop further understanding of those biases. Media literacy is critical, especially with how much we’re getting bombarded with fake news and how much the rug has been pulled out from beneath legitimate quality journalism. We need to thoroughly consider and understand sources these days. It’s not easy, it’s also a lot of work. We shouldn’t have to do it. But we live in the information age, and information is a battleground, so we must. Those are the skills we need to survive in this world now.