Submitted 9 months ago by Linkerbaan@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Killed if Ukrainian, Died if Palestinian Image
I read the BBC article it very conclusively blamed the israelis for her and the others deaths. Both the israelis and the Russians involved in either conflict are cunts…i don’t need to worry about the semantics of the headlines to conclude this.
If you don’t need to worry about it why are they consistently using different language for israelis and Palestinians being killed?
Surely if it doesn’t affect public opinion there would be no need for that.
So did the WP story
Also it was the leading story on their TV channel where they made it very very clear that both she and the paramedics trying to get to her were killed by fire from Iranian tanks.
If they wanted to “manufacture consent for genocide” they wouldn’t have reported the story at all
These days it’s done in a way more subtle way than that because people can just discover those things via social media and if they see it as not being reported they suspect the newsmedia for not doing it.
The manipulation (as exemplified above) is in the consistent use of language with different emotional charge and even the passive or active mode depending on the side (i.e. “the terrorists of Hamas killed x people” when the Hamas does the deed versus “x people died when a building was hit” when the IDF does the deed) as well as different levels of implied trust for each side (for example, consistently reporting “such has happenned” when the source is the IDF whilst reporting “the spokesperson of X said that such has happenned” when the source is the Hamas).
If you’re paying attention you will see this shit all over whenever a Newspaper or News Channel is biased as they use the very same differentiated treatment for controlling emotional impact techniques for just about everything, including local politics.
That would make them seem too biased. They did that in the past but right now that’s becoming too difficult as everyone is reporting on these massive stories.
There is a fine line to walk on “reporting on the Palestinian side” while using selective language.
You must have the feeling that you are informed without actually being informed.
Exactly. Some other person tried posting this same nonsense earlier today. It was removed.
Even better, if they don’t report it, then people who read stuff from alternative sources will find that they can’t confirm the reporting in mainstream sources and decide that it probably didn’t happen, at least the way they read it.
Headlines matter.
By an amazing coincidence all of the 4 “major” Western news outlets cited are from nations whose governments have proclaimed “unwavering support for Israel” and where the local trust the Press the least.
Maybe all those things are linked…
I’m not sure if it’s manufactured consent or outright propaganda, at least for CNN:
Imagine if every broadcast or publication about the war in Ukraine had to be cleared first with the Kremlin. It has a different ring to it when I put it like that, which means I have internalized some of the propaganda myself.
All war is murder
I mean, people have a right to defend themselves. I would just say all coercive violence is wrong, no matter what form it takes.
No, the purpose of society is to supercede the laws of the jungle. If we cannot adhere to civility our chances of self-erradication significantly increase each year. Ask Yemen how their right to self-defence has served them this past decade. The same can now be said for Palestine, and if Republicans get what they want, Ukraine, too.
War was given mantle as a horseman of the apocolypse with good reason. It won’t be the plagues, famines, and multitudes of death that wipe us out. The last two men on Earth will die in a fist fight between each other.
I subscribe to the WP so I looked up the article about Hind Rajab. The app won’t let me copy/paste it but if you read the rest of the paragraph it definitely does say was killed as were two rescue workers
They always report the facts but frame them emotionally starting with the headline. They don’t need totalitarian control of the media, they only need to convince 5-10% to get total control. That’s how propaganda and corruption works in democratic countries.
There’s no outrage like manufactured outrage.
You’d almost think someone runs the media
Almost.
[If only we had the data to back it up[(theintercept.com/…/newspapers-israel-palestine-bi…)
2/3 civilians killed is what Hamas did on October 7, 373 military to 695 civilians. I recall the BBC describing that as “indiscriminate slaughter”.
The IDF civilian casualty rate is FAR HIGHER than 2/3. They kill 2/3 women and children and count every man as a “terrorist” because israel is a racist terrorist Nazi state.
Your comment is not true whatsoever. Anyone that reads the history of the conflict will easily see that israel has been the key instigator of war every single time.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 9 months ago
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What is the lie? These headlines are not edited in any way. Writing suggestive or misleading headlines and/or articles is a key component in manufacturing consent.
Using different language for Palestinian and israeli’s is a well known tactic that Western news outlets use to manipulate emotions.
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s not all people lying, plenty of it is LLMs spreading propaganda. The Kremlin is absolutely thrilled about the anti-Israel protests.