Comment on US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera news coverage

• Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you think that Al-Jazeera is biased in favour of Hamas?

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  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’ll notice I have yet to take a position on either side. I asked for a source for a comment which doesn’t seem to be able to be substantiated. Have fun replying to yourself.

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    • Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here's the thing, if you're unwilling to admit that Al-Jazeera is biased in favour of Hamas, you have taken a position.

      Have fun pretending to take the higher ground.

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      • Baahb@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “if you’re unwilling to admit that X is biased in favor ofY you have taken a position.”

        I mean yeah, but when everything is biased, and it sure as shit is, then you kinda have to take the good with the bad.

        Everything you just said applies just as well as “if you are unwilling to admit that US media sources in general are biased in favor of Israel you have taken a position.”

        It’s honestly odd to me that you think that the media consumed having a bias automatically means you agree with that bias.

        additionally, it’d be odd if the govt owned media that reports to a government who wants to do what it can to help extremely disaffected minorities in nation-states where they are viciously oppressed. The fact that Hamas may be at fault doesn’t really figure in. Are they terrorists? Yeah kinda. Are there viable options that aren’t violence for them? Not really? Is that more than partially their fault? Sure.

        Buuut does it matter to the US when our effectively state owned media decides to call the leader of a nation a dictator until he agrees to an oil deal with the US at which point he becomes a legitimate head of state?

        GtfO with your oversimplification and demagoguery

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      • OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Al Jazeera surely is biased in favor of Arabs and Palestinians. The Western media is also clearly biased in favor of Israel and western imperialism. Therefore, it’s an important non-western perspective for trying to understand a complex issue, particularly for Americans who know more about the Kardashians than they know about what’s happening in the world.

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      • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You may as well change your username to “BLOCKME” at this point. You are not worth having conversations with.

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