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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 235 points 1 day ago (7 children)

forced a woman to give him oral sex when she was in her early teens

Talk about failure as a journalist. I just can’t with these assholes. They’re almost as guilty as Trump in that their word choice helps every last one of those bastards get away with it.

If the GIRL was a TEEN, then she was a CHILD, not a woman. I don’t care about the potential for alternative interpretations here. The frame placed on the situation is done with one word: woman. Not teen. Not child. Not kid. Not girl. “Woman”. Which creates a sideways shift in perception.

I am so sick of this shit.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 14 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Again, this isn't a failure, the media is working exactly as intended. They aren't on our side, they're on the side of the ruling class. The ruling class bought and own the media. They aren't going to use the media to criticize themselves.

If we want to see justice, we need to make it. We need to take action. The rules of the system protect the ruling class. We need to break the rules and break the system itself.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

The ruling class and Israel control the media

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Israel is a puppet state of the US. It is also controlled by the ruling class.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They wouldn’t need to blackmail our politicians if that was the case . I think you’ve got it backwards it’s us who’s occupied by them. Netynahu is calling the shots Trump is a joke

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social -1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I don't have it backwards, I promise you. Israel is a colony set up by the US and the UK with the explicit purpose of advancing their foreign policy goals in the Middle East. The US pretends that Israel is a sovereign nation because the US population would not tolerate their actions if it was their own country.

Israel destabilizes the middle east, making the region ripe for extractionism.

Not all US politicians are aligned with US/Israeli imperialist interests and thus they are bribed, but plenty of them aren't.

Trump is a puppet, but he's not Israel's puppet, he's the puppet of the primarily US-based ruling elite.

Look at all of the connections between Mossad and the CIA. They work together all the time.

Stop spreading their misinfornation for them.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 95 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Raped a teenager. That's what he did. He raped a teenage girl .

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 36 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He raped a 13 year old girl. There. I said what should be in the headlines.

“Underage woman” is a phrase used by pedophile supporters.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Certin News people faced justice when the Nazis fell, a lot of people forget that it wasnt just the soldier of the regime that were tried and persecuted. Tho this person likely isn't the subject, her editer def might get looked over

[–] unnamed1@feddit.org 32 points 1 day ago

Early teens…. This is so disgusting

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

She was a woman by the time she was able to report it, but it's very poorly worded.

[–] exaybachae@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a distinct difference between how some of these terms are used depending on context. There is biological status and then there is legal status.

So be careful where & when you take issue.

Here, legal terms are appropriate due to the subject matter, and you should definitely suggest to the authors that they adjust the terms used accordingly.

Just complaing to the ether may be cathartic, but inaction is also complicit.

However teen is a teen regardless of context, as it's a designation of age group, not a legal or biological classification. So it's up to the reader to determine relevance of the teens age beyond that.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 8 points 19 hours ago

Even in paper days journalism deliberately packed their first and second sentences of an article with the most punchy and relevant details because they knew, with every additional sentence, readers were lost.

The line is buried. And could be stated more succinctly with “13 year old girl”, punching in the relevant details.

Instead, extra words are added. It’s deliberate. And it’s journalism’s job not to do this because a large slice of readers will hit only the key words and move on.