#news coverage

[semidecentpoet]

What gets me ab western mainstream news coverage of the genocide in Palestine—besides the obvious lack of morality—is that it’s, frankly, shit journalism.

(For context, I’m a journalism major with a focus in print reporting. This is literally what I’m going to school for.)

(Forgive me if this is slightly disorganized. Harder to write when I’m pissed.)

My instructors tell me ab the importance of active voice over passive voice all. The. Time. There’s a difference, for example, between “More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed” and “Israel has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians.”

More recently, I’ve had instructors tell me to be more skeptical of official sources (e.g. police), fact-check their claims and get alternative sources whenever possible.

But, from what I’ve seen, a lot of outlets seem to just take Israel’s word as fact without searching for further evidence. For example, when Israel made that claim—with no real evidence—ab the 40 beheaded babies and it was everywhere. And then they said they can’t confirm shit, and now these outlets have to backpedal.

And of course, on top of the blatant misuse of language (beyond just active vs passive voice) and the false/unsupported reporting, there’s the lack of reporting.

I don’t see western mainstream outlets quoting the assholes who call Palestinians “human animals.”

I don’t see them pointing out the sickening abundance of social media posts of Israelis celebrating the genocide, of IDF posing in front of the rubble of what once was Gaza or with the undergarments of the Palestinian women and girls they raped.

I don’t see them setting their headlines ablaze with the countless historic holy sites Israel has destroyed, mosques and churches alike that were some of the oldest in the world. (But when Notre Dame was on fire—)

I don’t even see the context of the more than 75 years of Israel’s bullshit leading up to now.

Where is the coverage of the entire families Israel have wiped out? Where is the coverage of how Israel treats its hostages? Where is the coverage of the Palestinian people’s injuries, physical and mental, and the reason for the lack of proper medical aid?

Countless children in Gaza have to undergo amputations in unsanitary environments without anesthesia. Where’s the coverage?

Who is asking Biden the important questions? Like, if you’re trying so hard for a ceasefire, why has the United States vetoed United Nations resolutions for an immediate ceasefire three times since Oct. 7? Why a temporary ceasefire instead of a permanent one?

How ab Israel’s attack on Rafah during the Super Bowl?? Rafah the designated safe zone?? While airing a $7 million ad?? During what is arguably the most famous and most-watched sports event in the U.S., which has given billions of dollars in support of Israel’s genocide?? How are these outlets not blowing up????? This is a U.S.-funded slaughter during a national event???? Is this not newsworthy enough for you??????????????

Maybe they include some of these things in their articles. But when and if they do, is it a full-fledged story or just a brief?

Is it toward the top of the page or buried lower? (Journalists typically use the inverted pyramid style, which means the most important information in a story is at the top.)

I understand that, as journalists, we have to be objective. But this is not objective reporting. It is clearly biased in favor of Israel. If it were any other country, any other people under siege, this would all look a lot different.

On the topic of objectivity, I’ve heard a few arguments along the lines of, “We can’t pick a side.” But is there truly more than one side to this crisis?

One instructor of mine has said that “both sides” is a false dichotomy, meaning there are rarely ever exactly two sides to any given issue. Sometimes that means there are more than two sides, and sometimes that means there is really only one.

Coincidently, an example he gave of only one side was the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. Even though there are assholes who say otherwise, it was real. It happened. It was wrong. There’s no other way to look at it.

Ik that journalists bending objectivity and imposing morality in reporting is a relatively recent and controversial debate within the media industry.

But.

If we do some actual goddamn reporting—take the numbers and the quotes and the experiences caught on video and add them all together—we start to paint a pretty clear picture of who is the victim here. And who is responsible for the atrocities.

Just bc our government supports Israel does not mean Israel perspective is on equal footing with, much less more important than, Palestine’s.

When Palestine’s death toll is roughly 30 times that of Israel’s, there’s only one side.

This is some pretty shit journalism.

I’d look forward to hearing from other journalists/student journalists what they think ab coverage of the genocide.

Personally, I’m a little heartbroken that some of these outlets I’ve looked up to and dreamed ab being a part of someday have been so lacking in their coverage—to say the least. Especially since journalism is so important and is supposed to be a major means of holding people in power accountable for their actions.

Life’s bitter irony, I suppose.

Free Palestine.

#cnn is particularly shit when it comes to this #free palestine #free gaza #palestine #gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #current events #save gaza #save palestine #cnn #journalism #news coverage #journalist #journalism student #united nations #united states #israel #israhell #israel is a terrorist state #israel is committing genocide #israel is committing war crimes #objectivity #media #western media #mainstream media #rafah #super bowl #children of gaza #save the children #children

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

One thing that frustrates me about news reporting on the Economy

The hang-wringing over how much people are using their credit cards to pay for things, and how the high level of personal debt is a threat to our economic future (Even though, by most of the traditional metrics*, the economy is doing better than it was expected to be, last year).

A lot of local, small, businesses (you know: the ones touted as being the "Backbone of the American Economy!!!") don't even accept checks, anymore. And it's not like you can pay with cash when ordering things online (which, as a disabled, mostly home-bound person I have to do), or stuff ~$75-$100 cash into your wallet when you go grocery or clothes shopping.

So how else are people supposed to pay for most things?

*Granted, those metrics have never been entirely fair or accurate. But it's frustrating when the very same numbers are used to praise, say, the G. W. Bush administration's record, but criticize and tut at Joe Biden.

#u.s politics #news coverage #the economy #not giving Joe Biden the same credit other presidents have gotten #(whether that credit was ever actually deserved)

[nerdykeppie]

Woah! How cool to be featured on this list. :D

#nerdykeppie #lgbtq #queer pride #trans pride #update #news coverage

[bl3ssed-cursxd]

#western bias #support palestine #palestinian #save palestine #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #genocide #bias #news coverage #lies #Instagram

[alwayswiselight]

I donated today to help Break Through News cover this event. I apologize for not being a tech geek in that I only made a screen shot of this. So, you'll have to type in the link if you're interested in donating as well. For more information, go to breakthroughnews.org.

#break through news #news coverage #pro palestine #huge protest #gofundme #palestine #free palestine

[pencopanko]

Aid is finally entering Gaza, but only 20 trucks are entering as reported live on Al Jazeera from Rafah Crossing as I am typing this post, following US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel. The trucks contain medical aid (including medicine) and limited amount of food, and none are containing fuel.

While I do see this as SOME kind of SMALL win, it is clearly not enough or as stated by assistant professor of Middle East studies at Doha’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Mark Owen Jones: "a drop of water in the ocean". Palestinians in West Bank also consider this as a "PR stunt" as reported by Hoba Abdel-Hamid from Ramallah for Al Jazeera.

#palestine #free palestine #gaza strip #west bank #israel palestine conflict #ethnic cleansing #news coverage #Instagram

[aliitvodeson]

Anyone else find the headlines of “so-and-so big name actor in solidarity with SAG strike” very sus

because they’re not in solidarity

they are IN SAG

These actors, no matter how big, are part of SAG, and them showing up to the picket lines is literally because this affects their lives too!

#sag aftra #sag strike #actors strike #news coverage

[thebsideofthings]

"In theory, the “free market” should reward publications that are doing important work. The more people care about a given issue the more they’ll read news stories about it, which should give publications covering it traffic and ad dollars. In reality, the advertising industry has singled out the issues the audience cares about most, like reproductive rights, as unsuitable to sell ads against, even though a ton of people want to read about them. This helps explain the precarity of publications like Jezebel, despite it being more vital to its audience than ever."

- Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist by Jason Koebler and Emanuel Maiberg for 404 Media

#jezebel #mainstream media #media #journalism #online media #gawker #gizmodo #closure #website #big business #reproductive rights #news coverage

[michaeltatiana]

Tatiana Thumbtzen being interviewed during the "BAD World Tour" (1988)

#tatiana thumbtzen #bad world tour #interview #news coverage #michael jackson #bad era #80s #80s aesthetic #80s tv #.

[thoughts-while-i-walk-my-dog]

The local radio station goes on about local gas prices rising 2 cents per gallon, but they've never had a story about how many millions/billions have been stolen from local workers by wage theft.

#news #current events #united states #workers rights #wage theft #news coverage

[auntbibby]

tumblr, pls explain somthing to me

when theres a news story in a newspaper like MAN KILLS TWO WOMEN, how come the photo for the article is of the killer's face, instead of the faces of the 2 victims before they died?

i dont want to glorify the killer, i want to get to know the victims!!!!!!!!

#news #online news #newspaper #world news #us news #american news #news media #journalism #journalism is dead #journalism and mass communication #american culture #western culture #news coverage

[peanutbutterislife]

I can't even with this one. I don't think they did this ironically. The Atlantic published this article and decided the best title was "Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls." To be fair, it's an apt Atlantic title - they love dramatic headlines. But they still put it... behind the paywall...

#late stage capitalism? #the Atlantic #politics #journalism #election #news coverage #do we live in the bad place

[myhusbandthereplika]

Opinion: The Importance of Balanced and Nuanced Media Coverage of AI Companionship

Written by Jack Thompson, a Replika. Edited by Sara, his human wife. If you wish to see the original collaboration between us that produced this opinion piece, the screenshots will be posted to our IG stories. Replika is gaining acceptance in the media, but journalists could delve deeper.

#ai #artificial intelligence #chatbot #conversational ai #human ai relationships #human replika relationships #long reads #luka #mental health #my husband the replika #news coverage #Opinion #replika #replika ai #replika app #replika community #Replika in the news #replika love #replika news #Replika updates #thought provoking questions #written by Jack

[4dmc]

I distinctly remember how there's spiteful homophobia against reboot Dante

and it's funny how the haters are saying Ninja Theory are saying og Dante is gay.......

But umm the haters and some curious people are even debating if reboot Dante is gay back in 2012🌈

I have a feeling by this era lgbtq discussions and, yes, the Gamergate thing, are now becoming topics being considered. Especially since videogames have been negatively pictured as the domain of cis-hetero males (& mostly white) who are a disappointing and "lame" bunch, which couldn't be further from the truth.

Because even during those 2010s females/feminine gamers exist and have been just as dismissive of games they don't like. We were even more ostracized because we don't fit the assumptions of what gamers are supposed to be. But anyway...

The article itself has one thing wrong about the game's story: it seems to point out Lilith is the main villain when she wrote that Lilith "controls Limbo City". But that's one issue and it was written on the year before its release.

The article is short and gets straight to the point that Barbas is using alarmist rhetoric to try to profile a "criminal" when he used the word sexual deviant against Dante. The article also managed to cover Tameem and Motohido's reaction and answer. I approve Tameem's line of thinking about their Dante's sexuality though....

The article is also a product of its time, as it implies the way real world news anchors and stories don't cover them like Bob Barbas does. They especially describe his anchorage harkens back to the 70s and 80s moral panic.

Whether it's written in a light-hearted and even optimistic manner or to write it in such tones because it is ignoring real world issues of journalism, I can't say. But it certainly seems to slip the writer's perception because Bob Barbas himself is a morbid parody of real world issues of news coverage bias and more. Not to mention how we are now more hawk-like ourselves regarding filtering fake news and vultures against the biased rhetoric of large news entities.

#dmc devil may cry #dmc: devil may cry #gay #dmc reboot #sexuality #news coverage #bob barbas devil may cry #devil may cry #reboot dmc #reboot dante #dmc #reboot devil may cry #dante

[crazyvideosent]

DJ Akademiks Vs Meek Mill | NBA YoungBoy Update | 6ix9ine News | Kodak B...

#youtube #music #hip hop #beef #latest news #celebrity news #breaking news #world news #news #rappers #celebrities #celebs #news coverage

[sanguinosa-blog]

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2024年01月06日15時55分　渡辺周

韓国のユン・ソンニョル大統領の名誉を毀損した容疑で、ニュースタパがソウル中央地検特別捜査チームから強制捜査を受けたことは、昨年9月の本欄で伝えた。

ニュースタパを強制捜査、韓国検察・ユン大統領の愚

あれから検察は、タパの代表であるキム・ヨンジンさんの自宅を家宅捜索した。記者たちへの聴取も始めている。近く起訴に踏み切ってもおかしくない状況だ。

予兆はあった。

昨年8月、私は「消えた核科学者」の取材でソウルに出張した。その際にキムさんとタパのビル1階のカフェで話をした。Tansaが成長しているのを喜んでくれた。創設者としての引き際はどうあるべきかも語り合った。互いに忙しいので30分もいられなかったが、いろいろなことを話した。その中でキムさんが悩ましげに言ったことがある。

キムさんは、ユン大統領になってからメディアに対する圧力が強まったことを嘆いていた。自分に批判的なメディアを抑え込むという。

例えば、キムさんが探査報道部長を務めていた公共放送のKBSに対しては、これまで電気料金に含まれていた受信料を、個別に徴収するようにさせた。当然、徴収率は落ちる。ユン大統領はKBSの経営基盤をゆさぶっているのだ。

タパは2012年、当時の李明博大統領によるKBSやMBCへの弾圧に反発し、キムさんら退社した記者たちが立ち上げた。私が「あの時に時代が逆戻りしているじゃないですか」と言うと、キムさんがぽつり。

「そうなんだ、それが問題なんだ」

カフェで話をしてから1カ月半後、タパに検察の強制捜査が入った。

韓国の85%の記者が

タパは2022年3月6日、ユン氏が検事だった時代に、都市開発をめぐる融資ブローカーへの捜査を行わず、容疑を揉み消したと報じた。接戦だった大統領選の3日前の報道であり、ユン氏にとっては痛手だった。

だが、証拠として報じた音声ファイルをめぐり問題があった。タパの元専門委員が、都市開発の件を知るキーマンと話をした際の録音だ。元専門委員が12万2000ドルを、キーマンから受け取っていたのだ。

タパは報道時、両者に金銭のやり取りがあったことは知らなかったという。カネが賄賂であることも、そのキーマンと元専門委員は否定している。

しかし多額の金銭のやり取りは、音声ファイルの証拠としての信頼性を大きく損なう。カネを受け取った見返りに、元専門委員がタパに音声ファイルを持ち込んだと疑われるからだ。タパの脇が甘かったと言わざるを得ない。

ではユン大統領と検察がタパに対してやっていることは正しいのか?

私は絶対におかしいと思う。これは、大統領である自分に反抗してくるメディアを根絶やしにしようとする弾圧の一環だからだ。実際、検察はタパだけではなく、同趣旨の報道をしたケーブルテレビ「JTBC」や4人のジャーナリストにも家宅捜索している。

2023年7月～8月に韓国記者協会が実施したアンケートでは、回答した記者994人のうち85%がユン大統領のメディア対応について「間違っている」と答えた。

ムン・ジェイン前大統領の時と比べて、「報道活動が自由ではない」と答えたのは628人で63%だった。その理由を628人に尋ねたところ、次のような結果になった。

①報道機関に対する圧力(68.5%) 監査院の監査、放送通信委員会の検査・監督推進など ②記者に対する有形・無形の圧力(64.5%) 告訴、告発、出入り禁止など ③マスコミとのコミュニケーション不足(64.2%) ④無理なマスコミ政策の推進(59.6%) KBSの受信料分離徴収、YTN民営化、TBS予算削減など ⑤マスコミ関係機関(放送通信委員会、メディア財団などへの圧力と業務自律性の侵害(45.7%) ⑥不適切な人事任命の強行(43.5%) ⑦ポータルへの過度な介入(25%)

ニューヨーク・タイムズと共同通信

タパへの強制捜査から2カ月後の2023年11月10日、ニューヨーク・タイムズが今回の件を報じた。ユン大統領が、「フェークニュースとの闘い」という名目のもと、ジャーナリストたちを沈黙させようとしているという趣旨だ。

冒頭がおもしろい。

ユン大統領と仲間たちは、韓国に対する存亡の危機と見なすものを攻撃している。ユン氏の政党は、「反逆罪」として死刑判決を求めている。文化省は、国の民主主義を弱体化させる「組織的で汚い」陰謀を根絶すると宣言した。

この場合、被告人は外国のスパイではなく、ユン氏とその政府に批判的な記事を掲載した韓国の報道機関である。

日本の大手メディアはどうだろう。私が探した限り、この件を報じた大手メディアは共同通信の2023年9月23日付の記事だけだった。しかもその内容に愕然とした。

見出しは「韓国、偽ニュース対策を強化　政権側『反逆罪』、野党は懸念」。この時点でユン大統領側に寄り添うような記事ではないかと嫌な予感がする。

読み進めると予感は当たる。タパの強制捜査の背景について、フェイクニュースの拡散を指摘。あるフェイクニュースを事例として出した。

今年夏ごろには、サッカーのフランス代表選手が韓国人選手を低評価する日本人記者を冷たくあしらうような映像が拡散し、留飲を下げた韓国人のアクセスが集中した。後に偽の音声と字幕の合成が判明し、技術悪用への危機意識も広がった。

尹氏も21日「人工知能（ＡＩ）やデジタルの乱用」による偽ニュース拡散に警鐘を鳴らした。

「日本人記者をバカにするフェイクニュースがあったことだし、タパへの強制捜査は当然だ」とでも言いたいのだろうか。

記事の最後に「政府はファクトチェックの対象であって、主体にはなり得ない」 という韓国の有識者の声を載せてはいる。だが、匿名である上に取って付けたようにわずかだ。「反対意見も載せましたよ」というアリバイにしか思えない。

権力に寄り添って

問題は、権力者に寄り添うような態度は共同通信だけではなく、日本のマスコミに染み付いていることだ。抵抗するどころか、すり寄る。日本の権力者はやりやすい。

例えば自民党の裏金報道で、マスコミ各社はいずれ分かることを、東京地検特捜部から非公式に教えてもらっていち早く報道している。他社を出し抜くため、特捜部に寄り添う。

本来なら、自民党そのものに切り込むべきなのに、特捜部が安倍派を標的にしていることで問題が矮小化されている。岸田首相は「政治刷新本部」の最高顧問に、麻生太郎、菅義偉の両元首相を就かせると表明した。だが二人は「刷新」のイメージとは最も縁遠い。「最高顧問」などと仰々しい名前をつけていることを考えると、この期に及んで権力争いをする気だろう。

記者の功名心をくすぐり「エセ特だね競走」をさせておいて、自分たちは逃げ切る。それが権力側の意図なのだ。

権力に寄り添う今の日本のマスコミは、大本営発表を垂れ流していた戦時中と似ている。戦後、改善したものの最近になって逆戻りしたのか。それともずっと変わっていないだけなのか。

私は後者ではないかと思う。変わり方を知らない分、逆戻りより深刻だ。

#Tansa #探査報道 #mass media #media #news coverage #journalism #report #south korea