> Yes of course, without recording technology, in my view, we would not have successful type of investigative journalism that project Veritas has delivered.
Your "successful investigative journalism" is more widely recognized as a "right-wing disinformation outfit". O'Keefe and his organization have been repeatedly shown to have fabricated stories, solicited fraudulent activity, and deceptively edited recordings. Their activities are politically motivated propaganda, not journalism.
Who ran a blog and youtube channel, recording, often without the knowledge of the person he was talking too.
It is the same style of investigative journalism as Project Veritas, O'Keefe are using to show the true colors of the people, actions and ideologies hiding, conveniently, behind a banner of a 'legitimate' political party (who also, unlike Lukashenko, have access to far greater resources, including Wikipedia to 'clean up')
I hoped to get across 3 points with my previous post:
a) what's happening in Belarus is systemic, medieval-style suppression of the populous, voter abuse, and political imprisonments.
And the argument that used by Lukashenko, is the same as @dukswuff is used against Project Veritas...
b) One of the imprisoned leaders, exposed the methods of the tyranny, using the same approach as investigative journalism (involving recordings) as Project Veritas, O'Keefe is doing in US.
Technology is important there, but not more or equal to the heroism of the people doing it.
And, at least for me, the more dare the retribution, the more heroic actions are of the journalist.
c) Telegram marketing spin manipulating words, trying to assigning the heroism and suffering of the victims -- to their platform.
Just like some in US are using heroism and suffering of the victims in Nazi concentration camps (who did not choose to go there), equating that to people crossing US border illegally and being detained.
This is stealing of valor.
It is being perpetrated in western media daily for many years, and often spills over to events like Democratic National Convention.
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I am also going add one more point.
The statements Lukashenko is making about Byelorussian's duty to support him, so not dissimilar to the argument Biden is making about the duty of African-Americans to to support his candidacy.
Your "successful investigative journalism" is more widely recognized as a "right-wing disinformation outfit". O'Keefe and his organization have been repeatedly shown to have fabricated stories, solicited fraudulent activity, and deceptively edited recordings. Their activities are politically motivated propaganda, not journalism.