Post #515800
2026-03-03 19:50 UTC
Replies (13)
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@lizzy@social.vlhl.dev 2026-03-03 19:56
@ml@social.mitexleo.one I think the "Iran says" part (and only this part) makes sense from a journalism perspective because as a western newspaper, they have independent sources on the ground in US allies like Israel, while they obviously do not have the same for Iran. However that still hasn't stopped them from just publishing unverified claims of the Israeli government as fact in the past. (and not correcting them even after the Israeli government has admitted they were false)
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@apropos@fsebugoutzone.org 2026-03-03 20:06
@ml@social.mitexleo.one writing like this can happen naturally and non-maliciously in a way similar to fact-generation by Wikipedia: the BBC has Israeli embeds to whom thinking and journalism can be deferred. For any story about something bad happening to Israel, the embed pops up with evidence and a persuasive story and a prepackaged narrative and the BBC doesn't have to do anything. But for any story about something bad happening to Iran, there's no such handy way to defer thinking and avoid journalism, and instead journalists have to actually dig into, and journalists suck at this and are not really sure of the truth of anything that's pulled up. What's more, since this requires thinking, it comes with the basic conditions of thinking - like, doubt. Maybe Israel bombed the school, maybe Iran bombed it to unify the regime, maybe AD fell on it, maybe Israel bombed it but for some tragic and defensible mistake that shouldn't be reduced to "Israel deliberately murders a bunch of children". Neurons are activated by having to think, and neurons once activated are influenced by these easily-considered theories that the journalist himself does not have any clean way to discriminate between. In short, Israeli availability and journalist laziness gets you the same result as deliberately extremely biased reporting.
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@torf@c.im 2026-03-03 21:06
@ml@social.mitexleo.one "Correction" 2 is valid only after the side which shot has been proven. "Correction" 3 is valid, when there are independent confirmations.
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@aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social 2026-03-03 22:07
@ml@social.mitexleo.one Passive voice alone made that headline misinformation.
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@zl2tod@mastodon.online 2026-03-03 22:08
@ml@social.mitexleo.one The British Bombing Corporation strikes again.
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@xs4me2@mastodon.social 2026-03-03 22:31
@ml@social.mitexleo.one As it is… A war crime in an undeclared war…
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@JakeKb@mastodon.social 2026-03-03 23:19
@ml@social.mitexleo.one After two and a half years of genocide in Gaza we all know the western media m.o. I refuse to believe that there are people who don't understand this because they are naive. If they don't see it, it's because they are content with imperialism and genocide.
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@Areeb_Soo_Yasir@mastodon.areebyasir.com 2026-03-04 01:50
@ml@social.mitexleo.one Very good observation, unfortunately very common for the victims to these murders being referred to as if "they just died somehow". This is why we need Mastodon and we cannot rely on the media.
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@TJC_2@mastodon.social 2026-03-04 03:14
@ml@social.mitexleo.one I applaud these kinds of "revised headlines." Bravo.
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@EF@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-03-04 09:54
@ml@social.mitexleo.one the BBC is no longer a UK institution despite the UK paying for it. A lot of the news stories come from their US 'partner'!
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@petealexharris@mastodon.scot 2026-03-04 17:39
@ml@social.mitexleo.one Note also the journalistic "Weasel After". The children didn't "die after" the strike, they were *killed by* it.
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus@mstdn.party 2026-03-05 18:54
@ml@social.mitexleo.one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6vc3CgHt2s&list=RDG6vc3CgHt2s&start_radio=1
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@haui@mastodon.giftedmc.com 2026-03-07 23:43
@ml@social.mitexleo.one Trump has begun to spin this too. He's now saying iran killed those kids. Like, the guy who is a rapist, a kiddie diddler, worlds worst warmonger, who aids and abets a genocide in gaza, says iran bombed their own children for what? For a reason to invade? That makes no sense as iran has invaded nobody, And i bet the west is already eating this up and spinning it that trump killed khamenei for revenge on the kids or something. Worst marvel movie ever.