Ideas range from joint offensive cyber operations against Russia, and faster and more coordinated attribution of hybrid attacks by quickly pointing the finger at Moscow, to surprise NATO-led military exercises, according to two senior European government officials and three EU diplomats
“The Russians are constantly testing the limits — what is the response, how far can we go?” Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže noted in an interview. A more “proactive response is needed,” she told POLITICO. “And it’s not talking that sends a signal — it’s doing.”
Finally.
You are actually not wrong. I indeed have an axe to grind with a morally bankrupt shit stain of a media company that not only is a major source of desinformation and right to far-right propaganda for decades but also managed to buy enough formerly reputable publications to pretend that their agenda pushing is actual journalism.
If you think that a media company known to lie and deceive (for a personal agenda, for the agenda of their investor or just directly for money) is not that big of a deal and we still need to take everything they publish at face value in case it is true for once or contains some traces of truth, that is very much your problem.
Maybe you have time for this. The vast majority doesn’t have the time to fact check every single thing they read. And so they should indeed know when a publisher is generally trash, barely does anything without an explicit agenda, and rarely actually reports the truth (and only if it can be framed to fit their agenda).
PS: Calling documented violations of basic journalistic code in a huge amount of different cases(*) "vague nothingness also is a definitive “you”-problem.
(*) For reference: There is a German Press Council reprimanding severe violations in journalistic and ethical standards. Most publications manage to get 1 to a few over many decades of business, the worst examples of yellow press even get low double digits. And then there is just BILD (Axel Springer’s flagship rag in Germany) with ~300 or 30% of all reprimands ever published (more than 30 just in 2024). And their other publication run the exact same narratives, just dressed slightly more professionally looking for other audiences.