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Do you even read NYT, WaPo, and CNN? They have all been very good at showing things from the Palestinian side and how much people in Gaza are suffering. It's a

by 0xDEF 3y ago

Do you even read NYT, WaPo, and CNN? They have all been very good at showing things from the Palestinian side and how much people in Gaza are suffering. It's absolutely unhinged to put them in the same category as Fox News.

mandmandam 3y ago
NYT WaPo and CNN all cheerlead us into wars in the middle east, same as Fox. They were slightly more subtle about it, but it was still obvious to anyone outside America's fucked up Overton window. They're absolutely in the same category as Fox - corporate pro-war pro-fossil fuel anti-union entertainment propaganda, masked as news. Outside the narrow window of 'acceptable' debate they're essentially indistinguishable. CNN and the NYT are covering the atrocities and war crimes in Palestine a little better than Fox. Sure. But do you know how many journalists have been fired from those companies, and from the Guardian and the BBC as well, for simply voicing mild support for Palestine? And how many more journalists have resigned, citing fucked up editorial policy? It's simply gaslighting to say that these mouthpieces are "very good" on Palestine's suffering. It's offensively ignorant.
pxc 3y ago
A couple of things that stuck out to me enough recently that I can recall them from memory: - When a UN official in NYC stepped down citing failure to do anything about the ongoing 'genocide' in Gaza¹, other outlets, including some international ones, had articles about it the same day. NYT never released a piece about this NY news.² - basically all coverage of the recent pro-Palestinian protests in Washington DC understates the size of the protests by an order of magnitude, sometimes by two, with headlines generally not updated after counts of attendees were verified (e.g., WaPo³) — 1: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/1/craig_mokhiber_un_resignation_israel_gaza https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/1/craig_mokhiber_un_res... 2: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anytimes.com+craig+mokhiber https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anytimes.com+craig+mokhiber 3: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/11/04/dc-palestine-protest-israel-gaza-war/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/11/04/dc-palest...

by 0xDEF 3y ago

mandmandam 3y ago

NYT WaPo and CNN all cheerlead us into wars in the middle east, same as Fox. They were slightly more subtle about it, but it was still obvious to anyone outside America's fucked up Overton window. They're absolutely in the same category as Fox - corporate pro-war pro-fossil fuel anti-union entertainment propaganda, masked as news. Outside the narrow window of 'acceptable' debate they're essentially indistinguishable. CNN and the NYT are covering the atrocities and war crimes in Palestine a little better than Fox. Sure. But do you know how many journalists have been fired from those companies, and from the Guardian and the BBC as well, for simply voicing mild support for Palestine? And how many more journalists have resigned, citing fucked up editorial policy? It's simply gaslighting to say that these mouthpieces are "very good" on Palestine's suffering. It's offensively ignorant.

pxc 3y ago

A couple of things that stuck out to me enough recently that I can recall them from memory: - When a UN official in NYC stepped down citing failure to do anything about the ongoing 'genocide' in Gaza¹, other outlets, including some international ones, had articles about it the same day. NYT never released a piece about this NY news.² - basically all coverage of the recent pro-Palestinian protests in Washington DC understates the size of the protests by an order of magnitude, sometimes by two, with headlines generally not updated after counts of attendees were verified (e.g., WaPo³) — 1: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/1/craig_mokhiber_un_resignation_israel_gaza https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/1/craig_mokhiber_un_res... 2: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anytimes.com+craig+mokhiber https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anytimes.com+craig+mokhiber 3: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/11/04/dc-palestine-protest-israel-gaza-war/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/11/04/dc-palest...