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

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Baahb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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