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[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The irony levels are through the roof, because you're doing what you claim I'm doing, and not doing what you claim you're doing:

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-biased-coverage

You're defending the crappy source. You're not looking at the merits of your source.

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's no irony. I'm not married to the BCC. I'm merely pointing out that they're a genuine news organization with journalistic standards and the crappy blog you posted is not. That's not a controversial statement. The article they produced on this story actually has information, details, and sources... you know like a good source should. The Canary article is as shitty as it gets. It literally only has 4 sentences and a clickbait headlines. Of which, only 2 sentences are actually relevant to the story, and they're both ripped off from the Irish Mirror article that they linked. This shitty article can't even be called a summary of that article, which is a legit article that has actual reporting.

The Irish Mirror article actually provides context, testimonies, primary sources, and so on. Which begs the question, why not post that article in the first place? It's clearly a much better source and a much higher quality article. Why is lemmy littered with fucking The Canary spam everywhere? Why doesn't this place have higher standards for articles and sources? That's poor information hygiene, that's what I'm criticizing... and for some reason that's what you're offended by for some reason.

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry, the "crappy blog" that is Owen Jones's dropsite? Gtfo, you obviously don't know that the hell you're talking about. I'm not going to engage with someone arguing in bad faith.

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh my goddd!!!! Owen Jones??? How could I be how foolish and not know who that is? Silly me, of course it's Owen Jones on Substack.

Now Substack is a site that's notorious for having its userbase be mostly political grifters, but that can't possibly apply to the great and almighty Owen Jones.

But first, who the fuck is Owen Jones? You can't possibly expect people to know random schmuck grifters that you fangirl over.

Owen Jones (born 8 August 1984)[2] is a left-wing British newspaper columnist, commentator, journalist, author and political activist.[3] He writes a column for The Guardian and contributes to the New Statesman, Tribune, and The National[4] and was previously a columnist for The Independent. He has two weekly web series, The Owen Jones Show and The Owen Jones Podcast.

Well well well, looky what we got here. It looks like I was right all along. Now explain to me again how this guy is supposed to invalidate my points about the quality of sources and journalistic standards? If anything you're proving me right here.

[–] gwulgg@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

That’s a lot of words to say “I am a pedophile” big guy

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

More bad faith nonsense. You've had your chance.

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Said the schmuck who's been disingenious this whole time with my extremely straightforward point. When it finally came time to address it directly, you danced around like a clown and then gave yourself a soft exit by clutching your pearls over some no name British left wing grifter. Your projections thus far have reflected your actions.

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

I'm not trying to convince you dimwit, I'm calling you out. But the fact that you didn't get that tells me all I need to know