Great review. Thank you. Indeed, there should be more rules, but the current administration has been on a path of reducing rules related to disclosing interactions with foreign actors, vs increasing those. A fun game to play during the current MAGA fissure is to imagine what the AIPAC talking points on a topic might be, and then to imagine the same for FSB. Then, you can look at what various US Wild West podcasters or influencers say and see if they consistently fall into one camp or the other. Many times they seem to. When talking points align for a long time in the same way, or at critical moments when there are very clear differences between these two camps it can reveal a reporter’s geopolitical slant that may need to be offset with reporting from another source vs asking an ideologue or spokesperson for ideologues to be more balanced. Tucker Carlson vs Ted Cruz was a fun one to play this with because you didn’t need to even bring your reading glasses to see those punches land. Your balancing counterpoints here are very helpful to Americans who might not notice these nuances without your perspective. Thank you!
Great review. Thank you. Indeed, there should be more rules, but the current administration has been on a path of reducing rules related to disclosing interactions with foreign actors, vs increasing those. A fun game to play during the current MAGA fissure is to imagine what the AIPAC talking points on a topic might be, and then to imagine the same for FSB. Then, you can look at what various US Wild West podcasters or influencers say and see if they consistently fall into one camp or the other. Many times they seem to. When talking points align for a long time in the same way, or at critical moments when there are very clear differences between these two camps it can reveal a reporter’s geopolitical slant that may need to be offset with reporting from another source vs asking an ideologue or spokesperson for ideologues to be more balanced. Tucker Carlson vs Ted Cruz was a fun one to play this with because you didn’t need to even bring your reading glasses to see those punches land. Your balancing counterpoints here are very helpful to Americans who might not notice these nuances without your perspective. Thank you!