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andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 6 months agoI find the Times of Israel to be a decent source. They’re obviously biased in favor of Israel, but it’s not behind a paywall and they’re far more informative than The NY Post, for instance. I think they’re seem less biased then the WSJ, frankly.
Overall, a useful insight into mainstream discourse in Israel with fairly accurate reporting.
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Let’s put it in another context. would you trust a British colonizer owned newspaper with its news articles exclusively being written by other white colonizers during the 80s Apartheid era south Africa ? Would you consider it to be a decent source of what’s happening to the black population of South Africa ? Heck, apartheid era south Africa wasn’t even an ethno-state.
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Obviously not. But that’s true to some degree for all news sources. I read Times of Israel through a lens of context, just like I do for the NY Times, The Guardian, The Intercept, etc.
I think it’s incredibly useful to see what a country reads about itself. Not only is that true even for countries engaged atrocities: it’s especially true for countries engaged in atrocities.