Tony Crenshaw's LatteMar 3
Assal Rad
The difference is by design.
Mar 2 at 2:50amWeb
Show threadQuasitMar 2
@AssalRad I look forward to the day that the regime is overthrown and scumbag journalists join the politicians and their oligarch masters up against a fucking wall.
Show threadGreyMar 2
@AssalRad easier to trust a country that has elected representation than one without.
Show threadmagnus (he/him)Mar 2
@greymouth @AssalRad The Israeli state is well known for lying
Show threadFrans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋 FKNZS🔻Mar 2
@AssalRad Yes, the bias of corporate mainstream media is stupefying.
Show threadkampfschwaetzerMar 2
@AssalRad And the difference is by proof and source.
Please do not confuse a terrorist regime with a democracy, even if the democracy is in as poor a state as that of the US or Israel. In the former case, it is impossible to obtain facts that can be trusted. In the latter case, however, it is possible to verify statements.
Show threadjipexuMar 2
@ralph @AssalRad
Mais non car justement dans les deux cas on a à faire à des régimes corrompus et atteint par des maladies différentes ...
Peu importe leur étiquette ... Démocratie ? mais de quelle démocratie parlez vous celle qui fait un #genocide? Celle qui tue ses citoyens dans ses rues avec ses milices techno-fasciste ?
Les gardiens de la révolution islamo-fascistes qui tuent des milliers d'opposants.
Pour les victimes on devrait avoir une information la plus juste possible ...
Show threadkampfschwaetzerMar 2
@jipexu @AssalRad But you anyway need to mark information in some way to inform also about how trustworthy and how well checked an information is.
Show threadrustyMar 2
@ralph @AssalRad ‘elected democracy’ and ‘ terrorist regime’ are not mutually exclusive descriptions. Both these elected democracies (and neither are true democracies) can be described as terrorist regimes. They create terrorists through their actions, they use terrorists as political means, and both act outside of international law.
Show threadkampfschwaetzerMar 2
@mativity @AssalRad They are mutually exclusive. The social boundary conditions make them mutual exclusive. Anything else is simply propaganda strengthening autocracy and dictatorship.
Show threadTzimisce FleshMar 2
@ralph @AssalRad "poor state" is certainly a way to describe "actively engaging in campaigns of genocide and misinformation".
Show threadRicMar 6
@ralph @AssalRad "the illusion of democracy".
Show threadjipexuMar 2

@AssalRad
Merci pour cette démonstration de désinformation (ou plutôt d'information orientées).
La presse française (écrite et audiovisuelle) utilise exactement les mêmes méthodes, sans honte sans déontologie en suivant les lobbyistes et propagandistes qui les manipulent.

Et tous les jours cela me met autant en colère que les évènements déjà si effroyables ...

Show threadHeliographMar 2

@AssalRad

#alttext "Two screenshots of The New York Times

1)
U.S. and Israel Attack Iran
LIVE Updates

→Casts Doubt:
Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School

→ No Responsibility

2)
The New York Times

U.S. and Israel Attack Iran
LIVE Updates

→ Stated as Fact:
9 Killed in Israeli City Near Jerusalem After Iranian Missile Strike

→ Actor Named "

Show threadMatilda LoveMar 2

@AssalRad

alt text for you

Two headlines from the New York Times: In the first headline, "Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School", we highlight "Iran Says" for casting doubt and "Strike" as conferring no responsibility. In the second headline, "9 Killed in Israeli City Near Jerusalem After Iranian Missile Strike", we highlight "9 Killed" for stating as fact and "Iranian" for naming the actor.

Show threadDanielMar 2
@AssalRad clear!
Show threadAndrocatMar 2
@AssalRad Microaggressions are fact. Framing is a weapon of mass destruction.
Show threadtroy_friz_zellMar 2

@AssalRad

This is the pro-fascist American media. They are mouthpieces for the Nazis in Washington.

It's everywhere and once you've seen it, you can't not see it.

Show threadRicardo TavaresMar 2
@AssalRad The NYT sometimes can have journalism usually located underneath these strange headlines.
Show threadSharon McCarthyMar 2

RE: https://mastox.eu/@AssalRad/116157304384102524

@AssalRad And the teachers who try to use examples like this as instruction for critical thinking/media literacy will be the next residents of the Orange Pustule's detention centers
#CriticalThinking #Education

Show threaderibosotMar 2
@AssalRad Because the New York Times has had no presence in Iran since it had its press credentials revoked in 2019, it can therefore not independently confirm what the Iranian regime reports, including whose strike it was (American or Israeli). It would be unethical to report unconfirmed stories as fact. The article goes into detail about videos of the event, categorizing some as "reviewed by," some as "verified by" the NYT.
Show threadLightMar 3

@eribosot @AssalRad Ok, but does that justify naming Iran as the culprit if they don't have Iranian sources to confirm? If they only have Israeli or American sources they could be biased or lying.

Also, don't they have other means of verifying things than simply asking the authorities?

Show threaderibosotMar 3

@light @AssalRad

You're right, identifying the missiles as Iranian is an assumption.

Here is some circumstantial evidence: "The attack occurred after [...] Iran’s top national security official, wrote in a post on social media that Iran would hit Israel and the United States 'with a force that they have never experienced.'"

That said, it's not exactly a stretch to assume that the missile comes from the country they just bombed. In the other headline, the strike could be Israeli or American.

Show threadHishamMar 2

@AssalRad

Isn't it amazing that the BBC produced functionally identical headlines, with the same flaws? It's almost as if they were given them...
https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116161114341824602

mhoye (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images Two images in my feed just now, one after the other.

CoSocial
Show threadFDevMar 2
@AssalRad pls send links for reference
Show threadPetra SteinerMar 3
@AssalRad example for #valencygrammar and #FrameSemantics .
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 3

@AssalRad precisely!

  • This is how one manufactures consent!

#ManufacturedConsent #USpol #fascism #propaganda #sarcasm #commentary #NYT #NewYorkTimes

Show threadQCCEクリスMar 3
@AssalRad Linguistic differences to emphasize or remove blame. Middle Voice vs Passive Voice.
They are good at their job of subversion and public manipulation. Though, it's only through statistics that we'll find out how good. It's only theoretical, atm.
Show threadkvvoya!!! 🌸✨Mar 3

@AssalRad have you considered that maybe the reason for the difference in wording of the title is because it's two different events and not "by design"?

in first case we don't have confirmation on whose strike it is, and in second case we do have confirmation.

Show threadRobMar 3
@AssalRad
No one trusts Iranian news sources, with good reason.
Show threadChina.Gamer.Guy 神州电玩客Mar 8

@AssalRad
"We may say then that the contribution of the (media) to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this was not all: (media) also made public discourse essentially incoherent. It brought into being a world of broken time and broken attention, to use Lewis Mumford’s phrase."
Neil Postman talking about the *telegraph* and explaining news cycles and editorializing's affects.

"Amusing Ourselves to Death" is poignant read in this context, IMHO.