all palestinian violence against israel is self-defense.
POINTING THIS OUT IS ANTISEMITIC. BLOOD LIBEL!!! PALESTINIANS WOULD KILL YOUR DOG WHY DO YOU SUPPORT THEM MY TV TOLD ME SO!!!
Muh media neutrality
“Of course you can trust me, I’m with an unbiased media outfit!” I say as I take a picture on a crying SS officer, carefully cropping out the trench full of children he murdered
I’m reminded of the lib I work with and trying to explain to him about the problem with Neonazis in Ukraine and the media whitewashing or ignoring the whole thing; I told him about the Ukrainian ex-minister who was killed the other day, the far right one, and he was shocked that it wasn’t huge news; I told him it’s bad publicity to tell people about such a minister and he still didn’t understand why the media would choose either to not talk about it or to not reveal much about her. A lot of people genuinely don’t understand how media propaganda works (especially if they want to trust the news).
I think that’s a good point and it’s something I run into often. It seems like everyone expects propaganda to be so obvious and clumsy that, when it happens, they’ll be able identify it immediately. But it turns out that what we’re guarding our minds against is anything contrary to our existing world view, not the things we’ve already uncritically accepted. And what we’ve accepted are largely things we’ve observed through the lens of media.
It’s also hard for people to imagine the massive scope of such a conspiracy and how it could be so well organized. It’s easy to explain how media employment bias works in a hierarchy of personal interest, but that system doesn’t work perfectly and it generates a lot of contradictions which I think westerners have conditioned themselves to simply ignore. Even I want to imagine the propaganda machine to be an elegant and cunning device, but the real workhorse seems to just come down to writing “China/Russia/Iran Bad” headlines enough times. Getting past that bias with americans has been the biggest challenge in my experience. It’s pretty depressing.
one wonders why they aren’t making these revisions before they post it
Might be authors write it one way, editors up the chain of command continually revise. As a wire service their mandate is to get stories out quickly so that might explain it. Maybe first edit is senior editor fixing it up, last is after their zionist propaganda contacts tell them how to frame it.
Most bourgeois propaganda press outlets the initial story has some vetting by an editor and the authors themselves buy into the narrative to a large degree anyways but there is significant dissent in the ranks about Palestine among some of the journos.
And they probably still do.
Note how they shift to include an Arabic name as well. It can’t be just caping for Israel if a muslim is doing it after all. Not that Nidal has anything to do with the headline in all likelihood.
that is so fucked
