On The Media: Where Do You Get Your News?

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Is it true they actually used a picture of a random bombed building at first?
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BurtReynolds wrote:Image

Is it true they actually used a picture of a random bombed building at first?

It was a building bombed in Gaza the day before the parking lot event, so not random but clearly intentionally misleading. You can only see the top line there, but there is a small caption on the full image indicating it came from somewhere else.
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Random was a poor word choice. But of course, they used that image very consciously.
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Maybe it was too charitable to assume the NYT was incompetent. Seems like the issue is their staff is rather biased.
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Wait, the church didnt collapse? That was all over the news in the last 24 hours.
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Bi_3 wrote:Wait, the church didnt collapse? That was all over the news in the last 24 hours.
A meeting hall next to the church (part of the church complex?) collapsed, so close enough to be accurate?
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simple schoolboy wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:Wait, the church didnt collapse? That was all over the news in the last 24 hours.
A meeting hall next to the church (part of the church complex?) collapsed, so close enough to be accurate?
I would count that as part of it, so accurate
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Memri TV mostly exists to provide great screen caps, but is there any neutral party that will provide accurate translations of Arabic media to English? We know the biases of Al Jazeera or Al Arabia.

Is there any billionaire out there just setting money on fire to help expose western audiences to the nuances of the Arabic politicians and sentiments of the street? C'mon Bezos, we know you're good for it.
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Is media literacy taught in schools, or does that fall solely on parents still? Like those with teenagers, do they know what an algorithm is and how it works?
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They know more about it than their parents do.
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Yes yes, but at least the adult population’s had the opportunity to learn critical thinking. Whether it registered is another conversation.
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Is there any daylight between Gaza based stringers for Western media organizations and Hamas PR flacks?
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I can't remember. They multiply like fleas.
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Per relevant legal experts, as Musk forum shopped, his lawsuit against Media Matters for America is likely to survive preliminary motion to dismiss, with a chance of prevailing on defamation by implication, which is kind of what they were going for.
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Bari Weiss went from making her coworkers unsafe to being able to direct Israeli airstrikes. Can she be stopped?
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Leave reading to the clergy media, only they can be trusted to correctly interpret God's word primary sources.
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