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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

This is a shockingly big issue that impacts a lot of things outside of even mainstream journalism.

For instance: I’m a Wikipedia editor in my spare time. I enjoy editing Wikipedia. However, one caveat of the “notability” standard in Wikipedia is that a given page has to have a particular amount of references to it from “notable sources” (often, academic sources and big news agencies).

Unfortunately - what this means is that Wikipedia has a huge lean towards topics that essentially only pertain to areas where a lot of journalism is centered, which is often NYC and parts of the West Coast. Entire rural regions or countries will have major events ‘not qualify’ for a Wikipedia page due to the lack of “notable” references - while what are essentially inside jokes by New Yorker yuppie types will have entire pages published.

There’s just a big problem with representative coverage in media and unfortunately groups like Palestinians and Muslims are severely underrepresented

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

This is what we call "Manufacturing Consent".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

fucking IRONIC that these CNN staffers suddenly have a conscience and care about 'journalistic malpractice', but they have had no such issues with normalizing trump's dangerous fascism and go out of their way to ensure he is given a platform.

fuck pro-israel/pro-genocide narratives, but fuck these piece of shit enablers right along with em.

REAL JOURNALISM IS DEAD at these big media outlets. They are beholden to the elite, not the truth.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Being pro Israel is dumber than being pro Palestine. It's evil vs evil in this holy war and the citizens suffer.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Also being pro-allies is dumber than being pro-nazi. It's evil vs evil and the citizens suffer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Just learned this recently after picking up on a larger than usual bias coming from CNN and subsequently did some deep research to learn what this article mentions, that they're filtering the news through Israel.

I did not know, however, that the CEO was put into that position of power at CNN (one of the less crazy cable news networks that has a wide audience) just when it would be beneficial to Israel. That seems... convenient timing? It could just as equally have been a coincidence, but, weird nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Yes yes, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is over hundred years old now, everyone knows exactly what you're hinting at.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

just when it would be beneficial to Israel

On 30 August 2023, Thompson was named the CEO of CNN

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/07/chris-licht-out-cnn-column-00100824

Licht (previous CEO) “lost” the newsroom, as people like to put it when the newsroom rebels against a new boss. A similar thing happened to Howell Raines, who was essentially ousted as executive editor of the New York Times by the newsroom in 2003 after 21 months at the top after proving charm deficient. Employees tend to resist new bosses unless given a reason to embrace them. Raines, and now Licht, provided no such reason, and suffered for it. Journalists love to complain, and they love to leak on their bosses when peeved. “Top talent began to turn on Licht,” as Alberta put it. The CNN newsroom’s dissatisfaction with Licht was already a media beat staple before the Atlantic story, which made CNN management and not the network itself the story. A bad look.

Also, let's not pretend that CNN was fine until Israel's need for control over American narratives. Case in point: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/10/objective-cnn-rightwing-week-in-patriarchy

Licht was trash and it spurred a lot of distrust and dislike among CNN users over the pandering to conservatives and the wannabe mango Mussolini

Sat 10 Sep 2022 09.00 EDT CNN wants to be the new Fox News and it’s not even trying to hide it. Earlier this year Chris Licht became the new CEO of the cable network and immediately made it clear that he was going to change the network’s direction. One of Licht’s first moves was to embark on what Axios described as a “Capitol Hill diplomacy tour” and others described as a Republican boot-licking tour. Licht met with lawmakers who had become wary of cable news and promised them that CNN was moving away from “alarmist” programming towards more neutral, objective reporting.

What does that mean in practice? Well, it appears to mean firing anyone who is critical of Donald Trump or Republicans. Last month CNN suddenly axed Brian Stelter’s Sunday show in a move many commentators considered politically motivated; Stelter had been an outspoken critic of Trump and was reviled by many on the right. Earlier this month White House correspondent John Harwood was fired shortly after calling Trump “a dishonest demagogue” on the air.

It’s not just who was fired that is alarming – it’s the abrupt manner in which they were fired. As the media analyst Josh Marshall noted, “The most striking thing about Licht’s firings to date is how they are choreographed for … right-wing media consumption and designed to generate mass schadenfreude on the right: the bête noires Fox has been harping on for years suddenly marched to the top of the pyramid and hurled to the ground.” Licht says he’s moving away from sensational news, but he appears to be putting on his own little drama for the right.

After purging progressive voices, Licht has just made his first big hire: announcing on Tuesday that John Miller would be joining CNN as the network’s chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst. Miller isn’t exactly an obvious hire if you’re looking to brandish your new “neutrality” credentials. The former New York police department (NYPD) deputy commissioner of intelligence and counter-terrorism is an extremely polarizing figure who made headlines in March when he testified to the New York city council that the NYPD did not, in his opinion, inappropriately spy on Muslims after the September 11 attacks. Which is a weird thing to say because Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting has clearly shown that the NYPD used census data to spy on Muslims following September 11 and the department has settled a number of lawsuits related to the illegal spying.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Actually it's called aiding and abetting genocide.

I'm so furious at the press in my country for obfuscating the genocide and the ICJ ruling. And even more at my fucking government for aiding in the genocide directly by cutting funding to UN humanitarian aid. FUCKING FUCKERS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ICJ ruling? The one where they didn't order a ceasefire and just said don't commit genocide? Didn't get the nuance there did you? They didn't rule that Israel was committing genocide they just said "don't do it." Which yeah don't commit genocide.

Though the UN's credibility on this is in the toilet since it seems likely people on their payroll participated in the October 7 attacks.

Have you considered you might be getting information from flawed sources? Maybe that's why the press doesn't match what you're seeing on the internet. It's easy to lie on the internet. Actual news organizations have to consider their reputation and aren't going to report lies, not matter how popular those lies are with the kids.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

ICJ ruling? The one where they didn’t order a ceasefire and just said don’t commit genocide?

Exactly! That was the headline meant to obfuscate the ruling! Oh they didn't order a ceacefire! I guess they can just continue! That is the propaganda in the western media. The ICJ ordered Israel to STOP KILLING PEOPLE OF THE GROUP because of risk of genocide?

Where they ordered Israel to provide humanitarian aid to the 1.5 million refugees without power, water, food and medical services that you occupy?

And on the same day as the ICJ ruling Israel reacts by cutting off humanitarian aid? Every war crime Israel commits we have to investigate and wait months and then it comes out Israel lied. But not here, just cut of humanitarian aid.... If that isn't an admission of the intent to commit genocide, what is?

Have you considered you might be getting information from flawed sources?

From the ICJ? From clips of Israeli politicians? How much more directly can you get? They are admitting it! They didn't even try to refute any of the facts presented by south africa!

not matter how popular those lies are with the kids.

And not it's not "popular"... it's absolute horror and I'm deeply ashamed of my government and the media for making my country complicit. It's not popular, it's disgust and shame and anger.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

CNN is home to some of the most egregious journalistic malpractice. Being pro-Israel is expected.

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