A Brazilian journalist clued me into a story that disappeared from my own news feed

I was reading about the Amazon deforestation protests last Tuesday and thought I had the full picture from major outlets. A journalist in São Paulo pointed out that local reports of land grab violence were entirely missing from my English-language sources. Has anyone else had a foreign contact reveal a completely different story that was blocked in their own country?

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grant7289d ago

A buddy of mine from Rio sent me a link about the police raids in Rocinha that had like zero coverage in the US. I looked it up and the English articles were all about the tourism rebound, while local papers had details on families being displaced. It's honestly messed up how much context gets lost. Makes me wonder what else I'm missing on stuff happening right under my nose.

lee7339d ago

Damn, that's wild how the story just straight up vanishes depending on where you're reading it from. @grant728 you totally nailed it with the Rio example, it's like news outlets pick and choose what version of reality they want to sell you. I had a similar thing happen a few years back when a friend from the Philippines told me about their government's war on drugs, and the local death toll numbers were like 10x higher than anything I saw in the US papers. Makes you realize how much we're just trusting these big news companies to filter everything for us, and they're clearly leaving out the ugly parts. It's honestly exhausting trying to piece together what's actually going on in the world when you have to dig through like three different countries' sources to get a half decent picture.