and the invasion of ukraine has been widely reported and called out
contrast with the reporting on the invasion of gaza
both invasions are horrible
one is reported as horrible. the other, as righteous.
that's the injustice that the article calls out
@lxo Slanted article. "If Russia were deliberately and systematically exterminating civilians in Ukraine or anywhere else, the western media coverage of those war crimes would be many times more." -- that is EXACTLY what Russia has been doing for the last 14 years, and it has been reported widely in all media. Russia has been deliberately trying to stave Europe.
do you feel that describing your fortunate (privileged?) local mainstream media experience somehow invalidates mine or hers?
if your local dominant media calls out Israel's war crimes, rather than defending Israel's supposed right to defend from the people it oppresses, casting doubt on anything that would make Israel look bad, and taking for granted anything that would make it look good, I wonder how it has affected local government's stances towards Israel. does it manage to prevail over US/NATO's dominance?
@lxo depends entirely on what news you are reading, the invasion of Gaza is widely reported here (Europe) including the atrocities. There is literally no media that it is saying the terror crimes by Isreal are “righteous” — that is a lie.
I'm afraid I can't tell what question of mine you're responding to. your response seems disconnected from what I asked or wrote. I suppose we're miscommunicating.
if I were to apply your own apparent standards to your own posts, I'd have to conclude you're the one making absurd claims and lying, but I realize this would make for more heat than useful information in this conversation, so I won't apply them.
instead, I will try again to point out that you and we may very well have different experiences.
I suspect what you qualify as absurd claims are actually rhetorical devices intended to bring about the very kind of reaction you had, which, if your media experience was similar to ours, would lead to pondering and useful exploration of the media contradictions and hypocrisy.
since your media experience appears to be different, that doesn't work for you. but it doesn't invalidate the article, because there are people whose experience is as described. you might be surprised by how many people it applies to, and by how lucky and privileged you are that it doesn't apply to you
note that this is not about being able to find a counterexample or two in dissonant media, it's about taking note of dominant trends. being able to find the information in some non-maintstream news sources is not even close to the same as having it properly and fairly covered without too much bias in mainstream media. I hope you can see the difference.
@lxo why do I need to? The article doesn’t. The article makes absurd claims and you’re still trying to defend this hack of a piece of a journalist that cannot be bothered opening a news post. Talk about double standards huh?
imagine if a terrorist attack targeted one of these countries and murdered innocent civilians, and instead of getting condemnation, it got celebrated or minimized. say an attack perpetrated by isis, or by some country’s armed forces.