A Ukrainian journalist who was captured by Moscow while reporting from occupied east Ukraine has died in Russian detention, according to Ukrainian officials.
Victoria Roshchyna, who would have turned 28 this month, disappeared in August last year after travelling to Russian-held east Ukraine for a report.
She remained missing until April 2024, when her father received a letter from Moscow’s defence ministry saying she was being held in Russian detention, according to Ukraine’s main journalist union.
The circumstances of her arrest were not made public and it was not clear where she was being held inside Russia.
I just block the bot, because MB/FC is garbage.
Is there a better way to get a quick background check of a news organization?
MB/FC is worse than random, so rolling dice would be better. MB/FC & Poynter reliably favor imperial core corporate, NGO, and state-affiliated media.
I don’t know a shortcut to media literacy. Inventing Reality or Manufacturing Consent are good starting places.
So are expecting a trustworthy news outlet to pop up in some third world country ?
I expect trustworthy news to be hard to come by, because the capitalist class—which runs these countries[1][2], owns the media, and funds the NGOs—doesn’t want us to have it. They want us to have media biased in the service of themselves, the capitalist class of imperial core states where we happen to live. Huxley was right.[1]
Once upon a time, when union membership was much larger in the US, the labor movement had media of its own. Unions published their own papers. That’s something we need to get back.
Lemmy would be empty by your standards. Documentation of an event shouldn’t be hard to come by. It’s your perspective of the event that matters
If it looks like shit and smells like shit, it’s probably shit.