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Photos show scale of the destruction of Israel air attacks on Gaza
(www.aljazeera.com)
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So far a lot of the news coverage on here about the israel-palestine conflict is from aljazeera. Why is that?
I would imagine because in the west there is a ton of pressure to side with Israel no matter what, to the point people are losing their jobs for showing any support for Palestine or being critical of Israels actions.
Thanks for the information. I know this conflict has been one of the most controversial and politically confusing wars ever. I guess it's hard for people at large news sites to write about it.
And I've noticed their before and after photos show a before of the suburbs and any after photos showing the city. Cheap tricks. Not that I doubt the main message, but it cheapens the integrity.
In the article linked here. There is one before after and it's a slider. It's the same area. The photos taken from maybe one or two degrees of a different angle so things don't line up perfectly but they line up 99%.
If you're going to criticize them, criticize them for what they've done, or at least link to their disingenuous photos. It's not in this article
Ah — that slider is a new experience for me, and it wasn't clear that vertical bar isn't a photo border. That thing should be marked as interactive. Kudos for the clarification.
We shouldn't take any single news source at face value, every new source has biases, including the political environment it publishes in. The more traditional newer sources like the BBC and Reuters and AP, have the Western bias, and the West is aligned with Israel. So it's difficult for those organizations to talk about the human toll inside of Gaza.
Al Jazeera is based in Qatar, and funded by the Qatari government. They've demonstrated themselves to be excellent reporters, but they have the biases of their environment as well. And some of that bias includes pro Palestinian sentiment.
Net net, the Arab language reporters are more likely to get data directly from Arab sources, Al Jazeera is more likely to have reporters inside of Palestine, and Al Jazeera has the appetite to show the human toll inside of the Gaza strip.
I can't speak for the non-English version, but the English version of Al Jazeera is biased in what they cover, but when they do speak of things I have not noticed any blatant lies.
To the credit of the Western reporters, they're not denying that there's a human tragedy in Gaza, they're just not talking about it. Are they lying? No. But they are demonstrating a massive bias.
I personally consider Al Jazeera a credible source, but a single source, and I still take my news as the aggregate of AP, the economist, Reuters, the BBC, the guardian, Al Jazeera. We can't rely on any single organization to provide us objectivity, cuz everybody has biases. We have to synthesize an approximation of truth by what is said and not said by the various reporters
Here's an article that showed up on Lemmy, and it talks about biases as well. The article is very biased, but it doesn't change the fact the biases they point out are demonstrable and real. So it's interesting to read https://www.medialens.org/2023/the-absolute-right-to-commit-war-crimes-gaza-israel-and-labour-opposition/ to me it just reinforces we have to get our news from multiple sources, with multiple biases.
Because Lemmy is just as hell-bent on making Israel look like the only bad guy in that conflict as Aljazeera is.