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375·1 year agoMEMRI is run by (former) Israeli intelligence and has been panned for being blatantly anti-Muslim: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/12/worlddispatch.brianwhitaker
Loans were funded in the Duterte era when relations between China and the Philippines were much more friendly than they are today.
There will be less news coming out of Gaza moving forward. This comes the day after the Palestinian Ministry of Health released a list of almost 7000 confirmed casualties.
IDF strikes on South Gaza have continued despite the IDF-imposed evacuation of North Gaza.
Edit: UN says Gaza Health Ministry death tolls in previous wars ‘credible’
Also featured on Bloomberg Law: China’s Green Subsidies Are a Mirage
41·1 year agoVancouver - Stanley Park (downtown), Queen Elizabeth Park (geographic center), Central Park (Metrotown)… The lack of parks in US cities is a matter of poor planning.
1·1 year agoWould you like to explain to the class what an explosion of chemicals and radioisotopes is? It’s a clear retaliation for Russia pulling out of CTBT.
The first US nuclear test in decades isn’t world news? What the fuck is?
Bias standards are also widely different depending on the topic covered. For example, Al Jazeera is well-known for not criticizing the Qatari government, but that doesn’t invalidate their reporting of international issues. Similarly, the bandwagoning that happens when certain American media outlets cover international news doesn’t invalidate their reporting of domestic issues. I don’t think bias is a very good metric for assessing news sources so much as facts are. If a paper reports all the facts, verifies those facts, but puts their own spin on it, that’s valid reporting. If a paper just grabbed a Reuters wire or official government statement without verifying the details, that’s not really reporting at all.
We’ve seen that shockingly often: in the case of the Indian moon landing, good chunks of American media was using the headline “India lands on the South Pole” despite being 21 degrees off because Reuters said so. In the case of the supposedly beheaded babies, those same chunks of America media used the headline “40 babies beheaded” and cited a single IDF source that wasn’t supported by the statements of journalists on the ground. Moreover, in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, depending on whether you read AFU or MoD reports, you could have entirely different opinions of the war (both reports are almost certainly wrong).
There’s a problem much greater than that of spreading “biased content” and that’s the one of spreading misinformation or unsubstantiated/poorly substantiated claims. I think it’s the responsibility of moderators of a community to police the latter first and to allow the community to attempt to form consensus on the former. It might be good to keep track of the record of different news outlets as well (e.g. when later news reveals that previous reports were inaccurate, to determine how often news sources “jump the gun” and report claims with poor evidence). Skewing facts is the entire purpose of reporting, but making shit up or citing government claims as fact show laziness and a lack of journalistic integrity.
FWIW, most sites which rank media bias and factual reporting evaluate it from a Western perspective. As has been pretty well-established by various UN resolutions (e.g. the recognition of Palestine), the world does not consist solely of the West and world news should not consist solely of Western news outlets. Even as a Canadian (and most definitely in the West), some of the “centrist, unbiased” American sources sound like loony right-wing warhawks and some of the “centrist, unbiased” European sources are extremely racist. People in the rest of the world do exist and claiming that they don’t know any better than the enlightened West is, frankly, racist.
tl;dr I think policing bias before policing misinformation is putting the cart way before the horse. As a community focusing on world news, it should actually consider perspectives from around the world.
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Sure, but what differentiates “propaganda” from media that simply falls outside of the Western Overton window? Given the absolutely terrible coverage we’ve had of the Palestine-Israel conflict from supposedly “reliable” and “factual” Western sources (among other instances), it’s hard to argue that the Western Overton window represents “reality” so much as it represents “what’s acceptable.”
All media is a propaganda source, either explicitly or implicitly. Calling for removal because of “propaganda” is nonsensical.
From the Washington Post:
The Order of St. George, an associated order of the church, issued a statement confirming the strike. “Archbishop Alexios appears to have been located and is alive, but we don’t know if he is injured,” the Order of St. George stated. The blast hit “two church halls where the refugees, including children and babies, were sleeping.”
Given what we saw with the last IDF statement (doctored audio, inconsistent claims), and the last IDF statement (“totally dead babies!”), the IDF statement isn’t worth the air the sound travels through.
Don’t put your American Overton window on an international news source.
More “totally legit audios” in Arabic spoken with Hebrew accents.
Lots of Christians dead for a church that’s “still standing”
Mind giving a summary or transcript?