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CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’ (www.theguardian.com)

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

Western "journalism" has reached a new low. Social media is a blessing. Even The Guardian can't just write unbiased news.

I can't read one article without having "Hamas bloody super duper massacre with pregnant women cut open in ovens" thrown in my face, when 200 children just casually die from an explosion in Gaza on the 5th page.

It's such a sad state of affairs that opening Aljazeera feels more factual than any western newspaper.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Funny they decide that NOW having a slant is journalistic malpractice, do they now stop being overtly misleading on things that suit their politics? It's been acceptable to mislead in the news since the 90s

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I personally know people who lived under Israel's illegal occupation of Lebanon. If America knew even HALF of the shit they get up to, we would demand all funding be cut off immediately.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol, what? Our government has always been pro-genocide.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

The government, yes, the American citizens, not so much.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

They still wouldn’t care. Just look at the police as an example.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Journalist outlets everywhere are doing it, not just CNN...

BNN Bloomberg and Canadian news outlets CTV, CP24 were forbidden from using the word Palestine and heavily restricted coverage including banning reporting on calls for a ceasefire.

I think that's why it's important on various unions, US and Canadian cities, and other groups to call for a ceasefire, that way the press will be less and less able to ignore it or censor it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Journalist outlets everywhere are doing it, not just CNN…

It's happening on multiple fronts:

Pro-Israel groups target US lawmakers critical of Gaza war with attack ads

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What? How do you even discuss the situation without using the word 'Palestine?'

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oops, everything is Hamas now!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

The truly sad thing is that there are people who believe just that.

https://newrepublic.com/post/178679/gop-congressman-brian-mast-dead-palestinian-babies-not-innocent

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They use Gaza instead.

The thinking behind this is that you're not making it out like it's all Palestinians that are part of the Hamas death cult...at least that's how it's been explained to me. Not sure how that's pro Israel exactly, seems to be more pro Palestinian but I'm sure someone will tell me how that's wrong.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

I said this to @MxM111- my problem is that the IDF is now doing raids in the West Bank too. When the IDF is in both parts of Palestine, using Gaza doesn't really make sense.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you click on the link in the post above, then you will see that they specifically talk about war to be called "Israel-Gasa", not "Israel-Palestinian" war to avoid confusion with Palestinian Authority. Such titles are click-bates.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I admit I did not click through, but the war has expanded beyond Gaza, so calling it the Israel-Palestinian war makes sense.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Such raids Israel was doing well before the war. Israel also does not have a goal to destroy the Palestinian Authority. You are twisting facts here. Precisely because of such statements the journalists are given instructions NOT TO DO THAT.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What facts did I twist? Because all I said was that the war has expanded to beyond Gaza to the West Bank whether their goal is to destroy the PA or not. I'm not even sure why not having that goal means the war can't expand into the West Bank. Are you under the strange misapprehension that every war is about regime change?

Also, my link was one example. There have been plenty of others.

It seems to me that calling it the Israel-Gaza war when it isn't just in Israel and Gaza is a twisting of facts. Even Wikipedia has the sense to call it the Israel-Hamas war since at least Israel claims that's who they're at war against (I would argue that is also false). And let's say that's true. Why can't Hamas members be in the West Bank?

Was America at war with Pakistan when it killed Bin Laden in Pakistan during the "Great War on Terror?"

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (16 children)

Why the hell does anyone watch CNN anymore? They have a right wing slant but Republicans think it's so far left it's practically communist.

So who is watching it?

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

I will turn it on during the day because for actual news events, they're better than MSNBC or Fox.

It's when the opinion engine kicks in that they're useless.

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

I guess with dozens of different internet sources at my disposal now, I don't trust any big corporate news network to really give me a good picture of news events, even breaking ones, because at the end of the day, they're beholden to their corporate masters who demand that even stories that should be straight up news don't do anything to harm anyone that might make them money.

That is something I do love about NPR and PBS. They have no problem criticizing their corporate funders and freely admit that they get funding from that corporation in a story that criticizes them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, NPR and PBS are absolutely solid, but you have to wait for them to get around to covering something, if they bother at all. :(

Right now, turning on my local PBS station it's...

Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me... which is fine, but it's not news. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Weekends are not very newsy on public radio, it's true. But the weekday NPR stream is Morning Edition, which is basic news, 1A, which is more in-depth about current events with an attempt to be unbiased about it. Admittedly, they also do an hour of Fresh Air, but I would say the rest counts as news. And my station often breaks in if there's something major going on.

https://www.npr.org/about-npr/472557877/npr-program-stream

I also think a lot of the things that channels like CNN put up as breaking news just aren't. Even when they seem like they are.

I guess also because I grew up in the pre-CNN era, I don't feel I need to know everything the second it happens. I mean it can be interesting, but if I don't find out about it until 12 hours later, it's not a big deal a good 90% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What I miss is Headline News. Turn on a channel, any time of the day or night, and get the equivalent of a 30 minute network newscast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I agree. That was excellent. Originally anyway. Then it changed to 'HN' and had regular programming and does it even exist now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

HLN exists as a channel, but as near as I can tell it's all true crime bullshit now.

"Look at this horrible thing this asshole got away with... OR DID HE!!?!? Was he actually innocent all along? Or is he even MORE twisted than anyone imagined!!! Tune in to find out!"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Every Boomer I have ever known has had a TV with a news station on just running in the background of their lives at home.

You go into their home, the TV is always on. They aren't necessarily watching it but they have that shit rolling 24 hours a day.

As of 2021, roughly 56% of US citizens still have a Cable TV subscription. Those numbers continue to drop, but plenty of Boomers still have that TV on and running all damn day long.

CNN's actual viewership numbers are abysmal compared to FOX News and MSNBC.

https://deadline.com/2023/12/cable-news-ratings-2023-1235682966/

CNN posted 582,000, down 19%

Ouch, in a country of 350 million people, CNN can barely pull half a million people who give a shit about their broadcast.

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

man my parents constantly have CNN on in the background and i have no idea how they havent gone completely crazy hearing whatever the pundits are talking about all day. Not to mention the same like, 3 ads over and over again

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Ouch, in a country of 350 million people, CNN can barely pull half a million people who give a shit about their broadcast.

I don't have cable so I don't know... who the fuck is willing to advertise to a national audience that small? You could spend less money and have more reach on a radio station in one city.

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