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[-] caveman@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Hehe. To be true, I gave up on the idea that media are telling the truth: Either they won't tell because they don't want, or they themselves don't know better, or because they are not aware of their bias, or whatever reason.

I see media now as lawyers.

As in a court hearing, each presents the case of his clients (ther countries, their CEOs, their ideologies, whatever).

The mission of the judge is to put the opposing lawyers in contradiction, and each lawyer has the right to contradict everything the other side says: contradict the witnesses, the framing, the questions, everything.

Only then can the judge have a base to decide their mind.

We, news consumers, ar the judges in this analogy: We have to read contradicting media (and I mean not CNN vs FOX, but Western vs non western), to have a minimal chance of expanding the picture and filter what makes sense or not, and see what each lawyer is hiding about his client.

Only then we have a minimal chance of taking a well informed decision.

[-] Neon@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago

Hehe. To be true, I gave up on the idea that media are telling the truth: Either they won’t tell because they don’t want, or they themselves don’t know better, or because they are not aware of their bias, or whatever reason.

That is just straight up wrong. And dangerous. You're effectively saying that you willfully watch arabic Propaganda and don't care. All that because you wrongfully believe that somehow other media aren't unbiased?

Even if we assume that Media is inherently flawed, aljazeera still is Propaganda that utilizes Framing to push a narrative. It doesn't even TRY to be unbiased. But sure, go on ahead about "but other side bad too"

[-] caveman@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Do you have any Arabic, Israeli (or at least Jewish) friends to compare what the press say so you know which one is lying?

[-] caveman@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have my suspections about Al Jazeera (for instance, they never point any mistake of Hamas, and other stuff they talk about some countries I know), but what they say matches well with stuff I know from people who live in Arabic countries.

Al Jazeera is a good source to get out of Israeli/Western press strong bias, which even pretends that history starts on 7th of October and hides the fact that Israel:

a) Killed 450 people in West Bank until October 6th

b) is committing the highest rate land robbery in West Bank since 1993.

I also read Times of Israel and Haaretz to get a broader picture

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