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>They've been towing the Pentagon/S.D. line, getting privileged official "leaks", going to wars as "embedded" shills, for decades. It's difficult to see those
by sillyfluke 1y ago
>They've been towing the Pentagon/S.D. line, getting privileged official "leaks", going to wars as "embedded" shills, for decades.
It's difficult to see those on the same plane really. There's spineless and there's spineless. The official "leaks" as theatre as it was, occasionally functioned as soft checks and balances for revealing in-fighting amongst the different departments of goverment -- when the pentagon, white house, CIA were at odds with each other over strategy and tactics on some topic-- and often this was used as narrative fodder for both the left and right.
As for the embeds, at least they saw some shit and had skin in the game by being near the action. Some of them actually died on assignment. Lıke, what the fuck are we talking about here? And when you have Israel not letting any reporters into Gaza I have little confidence Trump won't take a page out of that playbook if he gets the US in some ground conflict either.
So you have administrations that allowed all that in the past, and you have this snowflake administration who's afraid of some questions being asked on a golf course in Florida.
- ashanoko 1y agoIsrael allows reporters into ghaza. Hamas kills journalist not following the brotherhoods storyline all the time. Which is why many, except for quatari al jazeera djihadis refused to go. Same as with the tulkarem incident where the west bank police lynched two israelis on camera and the mob noticed the filming reporters and smashed the cameras.
- sillyfluke 1y agoYeah ok, that's why foreign reporters had to shoot footage clandestinely from foreign aid airplanes: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/stain-on-humanity-journalist-stunned-by-apocalyptic-destruction-in-gaza-after-capturing-rare-footage/ https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/stain-on-humanity-journali...
- ashanoko 1y agoAand its repackaged al jazeera as evidence
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- sillyfluke 1y agoSince your unsubstantiated comment did not reference the content of the sourced article in any way I can only conclude you're replying in bad faith and trolling.
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- C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 1y agoFor bystanders, some Israeli sources against this 3-day-old account's baseless claims: - 2025 Jun 7 oped about why it's a good thing that Israel doesn't allow journalists into Gaza (https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409591 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409591) - 2025 Jul 9 article "Israel Blocks All Foreign Journalists From Gaza, High Court Delays Ruling on Appeal for Access" (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-09/ty-article/.premium/no-foreign-journalists-in-gaza-israeli-government-blocks-high-court-delays-decision/00000197-eddf-d508-a997-efffa3240000 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-09/ty-article/.p...)
- coldtea 1y ago>Israel allows reporters into ghaza. Hamas kills journalist not following the brotherhoods storyline all the time. Israel has killed dozens of journalists, officially marked as press, in targeted killings.
- ashanoko 1y ago[dead]