• fosforus
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    1 year ago

    Just reporting the truth about Palestinian deaths instead of plainly forwarding everything Hamas tells them might look like “playing down”. If such truths are even available.

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      1 year ago

      Just add "Israel has a right to defend itself ", after every war crime, it’s like a magic spell, you can report on it, but you downplayed in the same breath.

      N Palestinian children died today reports Hamas, but I want to emphasize that Israel has a right to defend itself. Over a million people have been ordered to abandon their homes in the Gaza strip and move south, under conditions of no food, water, medicine, electricity, but I went to emphasize that Israel has a right to defend itself.

      See…magic!

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        1 year ago

        If we speak seriously, I think it’s perfectly fine that a newspaper or individual reporters have biases. But I think it would be a good idea to declare those biases clearly.

        My local media in Finland has fortunately started to at least include where they received the information and add “hasn’t been confirmed from impartial sources” when appropriate. But they all still made the initial mistake of reporting immediately after the hospital strike the number of casualties and Israel as the culprit as a truth.

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      Unfortunately propaganda is done by both sides and neither source can’t be trusted. Should be journalism 101 that official numbers from extremist governments shouldn’t be reported as truths.