"The bank was robbed yesterday with guns and knives."
‘ Such use of passive voice immerses the reader in details while neglecting the doer of the action’.
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Editorial guidelines from Agence France-Presse instruct its journalists to present information that accommodates Israeli government sensitivities without requiring similar context for Palestinians: https://www.declassifieduk.org/leaked-documents-show-pro-israel-bias-at-major-newswire/ @israel
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New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman had a piece that compared the targets of US bombs to vermin. It’s the sort of metaphor that propagandists have historically used to justify genocide.
#FAIR: https://fair.org/home/action-alert-friedmans-vermin-analogies-echo-ugly-pro-genocide-propaganda/ via @FAIR
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