This seems like a new form of Israeli bias in the msm
Posted by RaskolnikovX on October 12, 2023, 6:32 am
I've noticed in the last few days that Israeli attacks/air strikes are never given their own story but always added to something else with the first story being framed with Israel as the victim.
I noted a headline doing this in another thread earlier but today I saw this one:
Hamas attack ‘deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust’, says Biden, as Israeli jets pound Gaza
US president decries ‘campaign of pure cruelty’ and warns Iran to tread carefully as Israel conducts significant airstrikes on Palestinian enclave
Not one but two instances of "Israel is the victim....as Israel inflicts massive casualties".
None of the stories the fraud currently has on their "front" page is dedicated solely to the Israeli bombing of Gaza and it's always mentioned almost as an afterthought.
has big paragraphs for everything else but then this small entry again almost as an afterthought:
15 Palestinians killed, several wounded in Israeli strikes, says Hamas
Fifteen Palestinians were killed and several were wounded in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, Hamas Aqsa radio said on Thursday.
The death toll in Gaza stands at over 1,200 people.
and then it's on to other stories with Israel as the focus or, for a staggering comparisson, immediately after that brief, two line statement about 1200 Palesinian casualites they have this:
Thai death toll in Israel-Gaza conflict rises to 21
AFP: Twenty-one Thai nationals have been killed in the conflict between Israel and militant group Hamas, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said Thursday, up from the previous toll of 20.
“The update from last night is bad news that one more Thai died, the number rises to 21,” he said.
There are approximately 30,000 Thais in Israel, mostly working in the agriculture sector, according to Thailand’s labour ministry.
Fears are mounting over the fate of 14 Thai citizens who have been taken hostage.
Worried families gathered Thursday morning at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport to await the arrival of a commercial flight carrying 15 Thais, including many wounded.
Yanisa Thaweekaew, whose son Supipat Kongkaew has worked on an Israeli avocado farm since last year, said she hadn’t slept in days.
“My son is everything to me. I was worried. He is the only son I have,” she told AFP.
“I cried every day knowing that he lived in the red zone.”
Paragraphs about 21 Thais that have been killed. Much more important that 1200 Palestinians.
I'm always noticing bias in their coverage of Israel as it's an area I read a lot on and post often about but this time around the bias has been to a previously unmatched extent. ...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Re: This seems like a new form of Israeli bias in the msm
This is because the media are 'grooming' public opinion for more war, so one manipulates their emotions using atrocity propaganda designed to bypass people's critical faculties. It reminds one of the rape and atrocity stories peddled during WW1. It the deliberate creation of a climate of hysteria, which is the traditional way of control the masses for more war.
You can even see it in silent newsreels from the 20s. Porkies on horses charge civilians and the intertitle reads "Crowds attack police". TradBBC even reversed film footage of the police attack on striking miners at Berry Hill to make it look like the victims were the perpetrators....The last working-class hero in England.
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021
Re: Not new, blatant
Posted by RaskolnikovX on October 12, 2023, 9:46 am, in reply to "Not new, blatant"
The new part is that even places like the fraudian they used to cover attacks by Israel as a separate story, with its own pieces (albeit with all the usual downplaying and other bias), but now they seem to tag it onto the end of a story about Israel being the victim. They haven't done this before....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Re: Not new, blatant
Posted by Ian M on October 12, 2023, 1:54 pm, in reply to "Re: Not new, blatant"
I'm imagining the sentences spoken like this, with the part about Israeli atrocities mumbled at the end:
Thanks for taking the time to trawl through & critique the graun's bs. I can't stand to do too much of it myself as it puts me in a foul mood for the rest of the day... I can cope with the straight up deception and pro-government bias of the beeb & other outlets, but something about the way the graun positions itself as on the side of rational dissent, while simultaneously watering it down to nothing, misdirecting energy into pointless IDPol cul-de-sacs or finally being at the vanguard of attacks against actual dissidents, nauseates me to the core. Maybe TLN could set up a shift system to spread the burden?