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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Dude, this is just going to get removed due to Rule 4.

I'm with you that this is a very worthwhile discussion to have, but this isn't the right community to post it in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I have another one - MBFC rates a site called UNWatch as "highly credible" when in fact they run trash-tier hit pieces on UN officials who criticize Israel. Their articles have been removed from [email protected] for disinformation.

I debunked one of their articles last month. If you want to see the kind of crap they publish, see a screenshot of my critique here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yup, sorry you're right - it was World News, not News.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

I'm not necessarily fully agreeing with OP's thesis that MBFC is a pro-Zionist project, but something is very much amiss if UNWatch is considered to be a "highly credible" source.

I myself debunked a highly flawed and biased article from UNWatch that was posted to [email protected]* last month. The post was removed by the moderator (@[email protected]) after being determined as disinformation. (I can't link to it, since it has been removed, but if you want to see the details of my critique, check out this screenshot of my comment)

Having seen that first hand, I would absolutely say that MBFC's credibility rating system is, at the very least, questionable.

  • edit: World News
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

His lawyers must know there is zero chance of Merchan recusing himself, or effecting any legal outcome by going after his daughter. This is pure political theater.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

The idea that propaganda cannot be propaganda if it is delivered in a dry, objective tone is nonsensical.

The Israel/Palestine conflict is a great example of this - especially in the US. Anyone who has closely watched the mainstream news media cover the situation in Gaza, or the college protests that sprung up as a result, has witnessed consent for Israel's war being manufactured in front of their very eyes, along with the vilification of anyone who stands opposed to it. The fact that it is delivered by seemingly professional journalists in a somber, even tone has no bearing whatsoever on how accurately it describes reality.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

I disagree -- I think there is definitely room for this more impassioned/personal style of reporting as long as the facts being reported are accurate, especially with this conflict in particular. After all, the headline is not misleading -- people literally attacked military bases in defense of the right of IDF soldiers to rape and torture Palestinian detainees with impunity. That happened.

If you prefer the more dispassionate, passive-voice-using, equivocating language about what is going on in Israel/Palestine right now, you have almost the entire rest of the Western news media to choose from.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)

No sick burn was intended.

Regardless of whether you think an emotive or a dispassionate tone is more appropriate for this particular story, the facts contained in both articles remain the same, do they not?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Many Republicans are apparently only just learning what 'biracial' means.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This assassination is an assurance that countless more Gazan citizens are going to die. It's not an either/or situation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

👨‍🚀🔫 Always has been.

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