Meh, Reuters, which is pretty much the mainstream western source, has been relatively good on calling out Israel, and even funded an independent investigation that found that the IDF probably purposefully shelled one of their journalists.

Doesn't mean that having a wider variety of sources isn't still good, of course.

I talked to a boomer fox news watcher recently, and apparently the current party line is that since the US firebombed dresden, what Israel is doing to Gaza is justified. The US even bombed white europeans, so how can you criticize them for killing middle-easterners?

IE, nothing wrong with murdering civilians as long as the US did it first, and to criticize Israel for doing what the US already did is unpatriotic, and the protesters have no right to protest this genocide.

At least the US right is honest about their values, and make no justifications or apologies for civilian murder.

Also the lead in the pipes and (previously) gasoline.

Specifically the 24 hour News Cycle.

Uhh, worse actually. I think it means about 50% of Cable news watchers (Fox, OAN) who feel it's a genocide, think getting rid of Palestinians is a good thing and that they had it coming.

They're the creepy Americans, sorry...we hate them too.

No necessarily half but that's the logical result. theoretically there could be some weird group that doesn't believe in genocide (part of the 69%) but would still support a pro Palestine candidate. Furthermore, as bad as the destruction of Palestine is many people only consider genocide to literally be the Holocaust and that style of commiting it. I could conceive of some pedants saying there isn't a genocide but to stop the violence.

Though, I unfortunately think you might be right.

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Well, if you open up Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter and co. you can see the destruction, you can see Palestinians searching through the rubble to find survivors and recover the dead. You can see children starving and you can see crying people holding the bodies of their loved ones. And then you can also see IDF soldiers bragging about the people they killed, filming themselves looting, burning down houses and desecrating peoples belongings. You can see them filming themselves torturing and abusing prisoners and laughing about it all.

When you are exposed to the stream of more or less raw information, it doesn't take much to understand the situation as what it is. Yes there is bias in there. But when the supposedly "good guys" from the IDF are showing themselves proudly committing atrocities, then the only people to not consider it a genocide are completely brainwashed. And unfortunately that audience exists too, cheering on the atrocities committed in their name.

Cable news seems to be allergic to providing any kind of context no matter what the issue is, despite having 24 hours to fill. They'll typically just loop the same 10 second clip from the event and then have 2 pundits who don't actually know anything talk about it.

It's not surprising to me. There is no more "news" anymore, it's all opinions at this point. Usually not good opinions either, it's all just a carefully crafted narrative or crafted to generate outrage.

This is why I think things like Tiktok are actually useful. I don't know another place to easily find 24/7 live video of the protests.

It does say primary source of news is from cable, that doesn't mean they don't use these other platforms.

And you have to believe these people's social media is an echo chamber of their cable news

Hence the TikTok ban

This isn't as much of a left / right issue as other things. Coverage of cable news across the entire political spectrum is running cover for the genocide.

I don't think you understand just how aligned all of the networks are on this issue.

Yeah regular viewers of CNN, which runs every story about Palestine by the IDF first, are totally on the side of genocide is happening...

Cable's target audience is affluent old folks so it makes sense.

The article made no mention of traditional free-to-air TV.

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I think the key term is "primarily". The only young leftists who get their news primarily from cable are basically in a household hostage situation.

Do young leftists who watch cable news (admittedly likely a very small population) still support Israel’s genocide? What about old conservatives who use TikTok?

I mean the sum of those two cohorts make up such a vanishingly small percentage of anyone its a rounding error. Its likely what you originally assumed, that the breakdown is going along pyschodemographic lines. Old ill informed people watch TV news, and the local stations have offloaded all that unsightly political stuff that ruffles advertiser feathers to cable news. And then your only getting the illusion of variety. Its always the same procorporate, neoliberal, neoconserivative uniparty.