this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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From that link:
"“The consequences of inadequate coverage are significant. Every television report, article and radio interview that has failed to robustly challenge Israeli claims has systematically dehumanised Palestinians,” the letter said."
Someone doesn't understand how journalism works.
When Israel, or anyone else really, says something insane, or objectionable, it is NOT the position of the journalist to robustly challenge it.
The position of the journalist is to report what was said, the ramifications for saying it, and any sort of counter argument.
(Source: I married a journalist...)
Good journalism is not supposed to take sides, which is inherently problematic in OTHER ways, making minority counter arguments appear to be on equal footing when they are not.
So, for example:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23ymz1n9rmo
https://web.archive.org/web/20260620041239/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23ymz1n9rmo
Pretty solid reporting.
Good journalism is supposed to report facts not doing both sadism. I don't want in an article about Ukraine for the media to spread russian lies. A reputable media should never force it's journalists to police their tone to look politcally correct.
Tell me you don't know how journalism works without telling me you don't know how journalism works.
The sites that refuse to police tone are some of the worst offenders, who also get removed BTW. Your Fox News, New York Post, ONN, Breitbart, etc. etc.
The difference is, most people inherently know not to post that shit.
Said the man who keeps up propaganda that agrees with him and said he actually hates black people defending themselves.
Nope, I hate idiotic performance protestors, largely white, doing "look at us!!! We're helping!" protests that do nothing. LOL. Come out to Portland, I'll introduce you around.
It is you who don't know what journalism is. You prove again and again that you can't think by yourself and just follow blindly random factcheckers
Walter Lippmann the father of modern journalism said The function of news is to signal an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and to make a picture of reality on which men can act. Nothing about balance and both siding
Journalism professor Jonathan Foster said : "If someone says it's raining and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the window and find out which is true."
Fox news do police tone. They will never allow anybody saying the word genocide or put democrats in a positive light.
You are talking to a wall, one that time & again has had the backing of .world’s admns. It’s literally a waste of time to argue with him. People have tried for years, and it’s never had the slightest effect. This is who you’re dealing with