Rob JessMar 3
Erik Uden 🍑
We can play the headline game every time their imperialist wars start.
Mar 3 at 7:27amWeb
Show threadSigmundFreudsBartenderMar 3
@ErikUden in Israel journalist can move and acces the sites. In Iran they cannot. It's not laways the conspiracy you're looking for.
Show threadJonathan SchofieldMar 3

@sfb @ErikUden you’re saying we don’t know who bombed Iran?

Also, in Gaza, Israel excludes journalists for precisely the reason you highlight

Show threadfr0gMar 3

@urlyman @sfb @ErikUden

We might genuinely not know in this instance. Because it could have been either Israel or the US.

Show threadJonathan SchofieldMar 3

@frog_reborn Ok. But Erik’s essential point is still well made. This pattern plays out wherever power wants to give itself permission to absolve itself and/or cast the other side as entirely at fault.

Please note: I’m *not* batting for Iran’s theocracy. They’re a grim collection of psychopaths. But the Anglo-American lust for power at any cost (to which we can import Israel) is not nothing here https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/115594340434843008

@sfb @ErikUden

Show threadRob van Kan🔻Mar 3

@urlyman @frog_reborn @sfb @ErikUden well made - but not his point at all

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

Assal Rad (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The difference is by design.

Mastox
Show threadJonathan SchofieldMar 3

@edgeofeurope thanks for the source. Good to know

@frog_reborn @sfb @ErikUden

Show threaddog and the plateMar 3
@urlyman @sfb @ErikUden Yeah, it is completely possible that Iranian state lies, and the same is true for Israeli media. Only thing we know for certain is that these armies kill people.
Show threadHoubaMar 3

@sfb

Are you attempting to propose journalists have more freedom in Israel, when they have just spent the last 2 years perpetrating a genocide which has been the deadliest conflict for journalists in history.

Erik is spot on.

Show threadwebhatMar 3
@sfb @ErikUden you haven't been paying attention, journalists are being targeted and murdered by IDF snipers. In Israel journalists can definitely not "move and access the sites"
Show threadDisisdeguey🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸Mar 3

@sfb @ErikUden Journalism in #IsraelTerroristState since forever

https://www.courthousenews.com/israel-committed-two-thirds-of-record-press-killings-in-2025-committee-to-protect-journalists/

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/02/25/report-record-2025-press-killings/2681772024264/

Israel committed two-thirds of record press killings in 2025: Committee to Protect Journalists

The group said the number of journalists killed in Ukraine and Sudan also increased in 2025 compared to a year earlier, noting a rise in the use of drones and a culture of impunity.

Courthouse News Service
Show threadSigmundFreudsBartenderMar 3
@disisdeguey @ErikUden This isn:t even about taking sides. This is about access to sites. I know, it's complicated. <3
Show threadDisisdeguey🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸Mar 3
@sfb @ErikUden NYT and mostly all western media have been doing this with #genocideingaza for the last two years.
So yes, it's about taking sides and no, it's not complicated. It's propaganda.
Show threadDonald BallMar 3
@sfb @disisdeguey @ErikUden Nah, it’s not.
Show threadDuckbilled Plattypus.Mar 3

@sfb

242 journalists have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza as of 11 August 2025. That's not press freedom in Israel. (UN). But, you already knew that.

See, authoritarian state Likud propaganda appears, even here.

@ErikUden

Show threadLeonardoMar 3
@sfb @ErikUden anyone thinking that journalists, and specifically the one in charge of writing headlines (which usually are not the one writing the article linked to), selects the words without accounting for the resulting framing of a sentence, is probably a bit naive
Show threadShine McShine 🐌Mar 3
@sfb @ErikUden the audacity to say this after the fact that Israel is the single biggest killer of journalists worldwide of the 21st century. Woah.
Show threadSigmundFreudsBartenderMar 3
@Shine_McShine @ErikUden doesn't change the fact that journalists can verify things in Israel while they can't in Iran. At least for now.
Show threadDonald BallMar 3
@sfb @Shine_McShine @ErikUden That’s bullshit. Many reputable news agencies operate bureaus in Iran.
Show threadOrntLaOkroMar 3
@ErikUden No objection to your general point here but the "Iran says" vs. "9 killed" tging is probably due to the fact that it's easier for journalist in Israel to verify these kinds of claims than it is in Iran because there is more freedom of the press in Israel.
Show threadLorzsMar 3
@ErikUden While I think reading the NYT is a bit silly these days -- I must comment on your markup! I've been loving the crayon pencil on screenshots too lately 🖍️
Show threadNuwagaba GiftMar 3
@ErikUden
Can that help end the imperialist wars?
Show threadTokyo Outsider (337ppm)Mar 3
@nuwagaba2 Yes. Accountability and accurate understanding within the electorate is key to ending these wars. @ErikUden
Show threadNuwagaba GiftMar 3
@tokyo_0
That sounds great. Let's focus on that.
Show threadTrimTab 🇺🇦Mar 3
@ErikUden
It is sickening, thanks for highlighting this. The entire world needs to abolish corrupted journalism which choses sides in any way even as subtle as grammar.
Show threadMuodMar 3
@ErikUden This is mass media!
Show threadStoorydusterMar 3
@ErikUden Swop out the specific actors with ‘our enemies’, ‘our allies’ to make it non specific and timeless (I hesitate to let the propaganda rags of various countries off the hook) but you could have a generic newspaper type title that works across borders as well, tighten up the layout and it would make an excellent propaganda awareness raising T shirt/ Poster.
Show threadBlue LumaMar 3

@ErikUden source :
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/world/middleeast/iran-school-strike-us-israel.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/world/middleeast/9-killed-beit-shemesh-iranian-missiles.html

Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School

The strike on an elementary school in the southern Iran town of Minab was one of two attacks that appear to have hit schools during U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday.

The New York Times
Show threadGraeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Mar 3
@ErikUden Looking at the news in general, I'm seeing /iranian hits all over the middle east, and well, nothing from Trumpistan / Israel. There's no apparent goal for this war, and Iran seems to be doing better? MAGA???!
Show threadTruth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦Mar 3

@pa27 @ErikUden

Apparently it is "God's" plan:

https://crooksandliars.com/2026/03/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-armageddon

U.S. Troops Told Iran War Is For 'Armageddon,' Return Of Jesus

More than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation from Saturday morning through Monday night.

Crooks and Liars
Show threadCassandrichMar 3
@ErikUden Someone was paid to do this, has a name, and has emails or full on documents telling them to do this. NYT and WaPo need to get popped.
Show threadJeremy BurgessMar 3
@ErikUden and it's amazing how few consciously recognise the difference.
Show threadTruth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦Mar 3

@ErikUden

Of course the MSM is totally owned by the criminals now.

https://fair.org/home/western-gangster-journalism-runs-cover-for-trumps-donroe-doctrine-in-venezuela/

Western Gangster Journalism Runs Cover for Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ in Venezuela

With the White House pushing to impose a semi-colonial protectorate on Venezuela, corporate outlets continue to normalize US imperialist predations.

FAIR
Show threadDanish AkhtarMar 3

@ErikUden

We are living in the age of deception and propaganda. News is just a tool for manipulating people and building false Narratives.

Show threadWesDymMar 3

@ErikUden I know it's very popular to shit on "tha Meedeeyuh" at every opportunity, but this example is ignorant and childish.

Convenient that you left out the timestamp for the first one, which I'm sure was much earlier.

Both are newsworthy and accurate, but made with different verifiable facts.

You're free to play this ignorant, childish game on someone else's time. Bye.

Show threadtuk0zMar 3

@wesdym @blueluma kindly posted the links to both sources.

158 mostly very young girls were destroyed by the US_ISR attack on their schools Sat. 28th when the number of fatalities was unknown.

Many -- at least 20 -- were still missing / under the rubble in Bet Shemesh in the aftermath of the Iranian ripost: Number of fatalities is unknown.

Hence your argument is mostly biased and pointless. Jee, this "soft" propaganda in MSM has been shown, mocked and even studied academically.
@ErikUden

Show threadQCCEクリスMar 3

@ErikUden
It could be rewritten as:
USA and Israeli precision missile attack kills 165 kids while attending at school.

Or:
Trump and Netanyahu murder 165 school girls in terror attack on Iranian school in Minab.