It truly is a work of science to take "some government propaganda officials are reportedly upset" and somehow turn that into "The entire state of Israel is FURIOUS...".

Almost as if the headline was engineered to reinforce pre-existing biases or something.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the state's propaganda mouthpieces are upset it isn't unreasonable to say the state, itself, is upset.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

Israel's clamped down on more legitimate sources and is even trying to kick of Al Jazeera (which has consistently led in terms of accuracy in journalism).

American news isn't a good source for unbiased news either, but people still post it.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They arrived at the kibbutz and kidnapped us, taking us to surrounding fields,” Lifshitz recalled. “The young men beat me and hurt me and took my watch and jewelry. They were riding motorbikes and took us to the entrance of a tunnel.”

Seems like if it were propaganda they would have omitted that. Seems legit.

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It's difficult to square that with posting a headline that only mentions "humane treatment".

I'm sure you're smart enough to know that media bias can be expressed in a wide variety of ways. Hell, a lot of Fox News' reporting is itself perfectly fine, but then it'll be editorialized into painting an extremely sensational picture.

[–] Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Been following them for years. They are far more legitimate than CNN, Fox, BBC, CBC

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I honestly don't know why people post obvious propaganda like this. It's like they don't even care about convincing anyone and are trying to undermine their own argument. It's not as if you can't find more than enough very critical coverage of Israel in reputable sources. Maybe they're so far down the rabbit hole, they genuinely think obvious propaganda outlets are more reliable than something like reuters.