• Kben@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I still cant believe the western goverments are sitting idely by while this slaughter happens.

    • Daiken@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The sad truth is all their media has become pro Israeli. They never even see or hear about the Palestinians plight. They just keep replaying the same crap from Oct 7.

      • nogooduser@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        In the UK we’re seeing a lot about the Palestinian plight on the BBC. We also see news about concern for the hostages but don’t see much about the Oct 7 attack itself anymore.

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          1 year ago

          The plight of civilians only entered the media sphere after weeks of false news about the october 7th attack that was used as justification for the UK’s complicity in the massacres that followed. It’s the media trying to save face as the public learn the truth from other means.

          • nogooduser@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            I don’t recall seeing any false news on the BBC. They tend to be very good at verifying what they are told and generally say that there were reports of things happening if they haven’t verified it.

            Either way, we are only three weeks from the Oct 7 attack and the BBC has definitely been showing the plight of civilians for a significant proportion of that time so it certainly wasn’t “weeks of false news”.

            • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
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              They reported that Hamas had tunnels under Al-shifa hospital hours before it was bombed by Israel, and then refused to cover the fact that the response by Israel was blatant disinformation.

              They reported that pro-palestine demos were “supporting terrorism”, and were actually told to BROADCAST an apology. Despite this, their apology was more “we’re sorry you got mad” and refused to outright say they lied.

              They reported on the “40 beheaded babies” (As did all the UK media) yet this was demonstrably false and was simply quietly ignored from future reports.

              EVERY single palestinian support they interviewed in the opening days of the bombardment were asked if they “condemned hamas”, implying that anyone who DOES support palestine is a supporter of terrorism.

              I think this all counts as weeks of false news, both implicitly from their refusal to properly cover the genocidal rhetoric and behavior of Israel, to the explicit lies and mistruths from the newsdesk.

              If you don’t recall seeing anything false then congrats, you’re the target audience for the propaganda.

      • barsoap@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Have you ever watched, random example, DW. BBC isn’t entirely terrible, either.