digging through the freedom of information act files has made me wonder if the clear biases from state media is less worse than the biases from ostensibly independent media whose biases are just as state aligned as state media, but better hidden from the public (eg new york times, bbc, npr, cnn, le monde, der speigel, etc).

it's easy to dismiss like fox news in this regard because they're just as transparent as sometime like rt; but it's much harder to dismiss npr or the bbc because it looks like they're neutral when, in fact, they both have storied history of regurgitating american and western state narratives.

it seems that pretending to be neutral, but actually disseminating state propaganda is several orders of magnitude more evil to me and a much bigger danger humanity than something like rt can ever be.