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Are you saying that every news outlet that reports false claims by eyewitness accounts which turn out not to be true and aren't sufficiently loud about retracti
by kromem 2y ago
Are you saying that every news outlet that reports false claims by eyewitness accounts which turn out not to be true and aren't sufficiently loud about retractions should be banned by their host countries?
Because I can think of quite a number of stories over the years, and even in terms of this current conflict in the Middle East, where there were falsehoods in the fog of war or even intentionally seeded that turned out not to be true and many of the news organizations airing them initially only took stories down and didn't run front page denouncements of their own reporting.
I agree that retractions and in general journalistic integrity needs a bit more attention as a global society, but banning news organizations that print things you don't like is something I tend to associate with a very Stalinesque mindset and not a bastion of democracy and liberty.
In general, individuals and groups are bettered by exposure to naysayers than surrounded by yes-men.
- yonixw 2y ago> that print things you don't like But that the whole point. It's not just that Israel "don't like it". It's false claims. > aren't sufficiently loud about retractions And what if there are no retraction? only if the backlash is big enough? Like in the case where there were no hundreds of dead in a direct bombing but a 50 dead in a failed PIJ rocked on hospital: https://archive.is/r6noB https://archive.is/r6noB and the same version today: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/16/israel-hamas-war-live-iran-warns-resistance-front-may-attack https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/16/israel-ha...
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> in the case where there were no hundreds of dead in a direct bombing but a 50 dead in a failed PIJ rocked on hospital Almost every news agency got this wrong to some degree [1]. What matters is whether they corrected their story as new information arose. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/business/media/hospital-blast-gaza-reports.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/business/media/hospital-b...