#MediaBias / [cont’d]

It was only a couple of months ago that trolls hosted with the poison machine at @babka.social were busy cleaning Mastodon from "antisemites", bullying voices critical of Israel. One of their bearded busy bees went as far as to claim that Local Call [Sikha Mekomit] was a Hamas-operated outlet 🙄 …

However, since then, the exceptional work of the guys at Local Call has been quoted by mainstream media outlets like The Guardian, and now even the New York Times, which with their pathetic record so far (i.e. the Anat Schwartz piece being the most obvious failure) would do well to thoroughly read everything published by Local Call and learn how investigative journalism is done.

So the baseless accusations against Local Call as a “Hamas mouthpiece” have been thoroughly discredited, as their reporting has been widely recognized and relied upon by international media. But this incident highlights the dangers of "poison machines" like @babka.social, @RememberUsAlways
and many others like them (Israel’s official social media setting the tone), who seek to delegitimize and silence critical voices on the Israel-Palestine conflict through smear tactics, and unfounded claims

Wallace-Wells, David. “Opinion | What War by A.I. Actually Looks Like.” The New York Times, April 10, 2024, sec. Opinion. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/opinion/war-ai-israel-gaza-ukraine.html or https://archive.is/IdmA9.

@israel
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#israel #WarCrimes #Gaza
#RightSideOfHistory #AnatSchwartz

'It takes a critical eye to understand how reporting can be used to frame events, especially in the Middle East. As most pieces of journalism don’t receive as much scrutiny as “Screams Without Words,” it is our hope that the detailed analysis here offers the reader some tools they can apply to any media they consume.'

Feminist Solidarity Network for Palestine, 2023: https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-helps-israel-weaponize-rape-allegations-against-palestinians @palestine

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Ben Smith writes about journalism and NYT:
"The Times turned over crucial elements of its reporting on one of the most difficult and sensitive stories it has ever published to amateurs, one of whose social media posts would make reasonable people question her ability to be fair.
"That sounds insane when you say it out loud. Why would you do that?"

"Institutions of all sorts are struggling to win trust in this kaleidoscopic, networked world. If you can’t do the painstaking work of presenting an incontestable truth with absolute confidence, the alternative is humility and an openness to multiple points of view."

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/03/2024/how-the-times-stumbled-on-a-sensitive-israel-story

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Ben Norton wrote: 'Instead of investigating how it published a fake story on supposed Hamas "mass rapes", the NY Times is investigating... employees who leaked info about how its editors hired a racist Israeli propagandist to write the fake story to justify Israel's genocide.'

A union leader said the leak probe has singled out employees ‘for their national origin, ethnicity and race’: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/01/nytimes-leak-investigation-guild-intercept-hamas/

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"New doubts are emerging about the New York Times’s coverage of sexual violence in the October 7 attack. The paper must explain why it broke its own rules by hiring a clearly biased writer who endorsed racist and violent rhetoric toward Palestinians."

James North: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/extraordinary-charges-of-bias-emerge-against-nytimes-reporter-anat-schwartz/

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