@Lazarou it’s intent, not number of killed. Putin clearly invaded Ukraine w/intent of wiping it off the map. Hamas has the same intention for Israel. Netanyahu can be accused of prosecuting a defensive war badly & even with selfish/corrupt ends, but not equivalent to genocidal terrorists.
Israeli officials seize AssociatedPress equipment and take down live shot of NORTHERN Gaza, where IDF just resumed fighting while still in Rafah.
“The shutdown was not based on the CONTENT of the feed but rather an abusive use by the Israeli government of the country’s new foreign broadcaster law.”
The AP complies with Israel’s military censorship rules, which prohibit broadcasts of details like troops movements that could endanger soldiers.
@rameshgupta@Properganda The stated reason for the shutdown is that the AP was providing a feed to Al-Jazeera (already having been banned from reporting and caught propagandizing for hamas numerous times). AJ is state-owned media similar to RT but with a radical Islamist bent.
Still, this could be a mistake that we see reversed, but it is worth noting that AP has complied with hamas military censorship for many years without informing their audience. There is a reason we never saw any images of rockets being launched from residential areas, even though this happened many times. Matti Friedman has written a firsthand account about this (and more) from his time working for AP.
Bibi has many flaws, but he has not yet “betrayed” Israel. The disagreement stems from Gallant asserting that military government of Gaza would be a disaster, and that Netanyahu is incorrect about when a competing government can be established to further prevent hamas reconstitution.
@rameshgupta@8124@Properganda If the AP is providing a feed to AJ after AJ's been caught one too many times disseminating Hamas propaganda, then the AP is a de facto propaganda outlet, to say nothing of the years-long adherence to Hamas's rules that's already been mentioned in this thread. The AP can either be independent. or it can follow Hamas's rules and pass info to AJ, but it can't do both.
>> If the AP is providing a feed to AJ after AJ's been caught one too many times disseminating Hamas propaganda, then the AP is a de facto propaganda outlet
AP licenses its content to 1000s of outlets, nit just AJ. If that content is not propaganda, then it is NOT a propaganda outlet, regardless of what its licensees do with that content.
One can prosecute another for committing a crime, but one may not prosecute a third for selling food to the alleged criminal.
@rameshgupta@8124@Properganda If you know that something's a propaganda outlet, and you're still licensing your content to them, then you're culpable. We live in a world where information is constantly weaponized and traditional media organizations are going to have to adapt to the new reality. They're not doing that.
@rameshgupta@8124@Properganda While we're at it, can we just admire the irony of the same people who have been screaching for years now about how Fox News should be banned because misinformation are now outraged because Israel is banning media outlets? Just trying to claw some positivity out of this timeline.
@acarson@rameshgupta@Properganda If i’m going to steel-man the case for Fox News, just look at the trajectory of Tucker Carlson. He went from semi-tethered to reality, to regurgitating North Korean style propaganda about grocery stores, interviewing Putin without sticking up for his “colleagues” in his supposed profession, etc.
Also, Bret Baier is the one righteous show left on the network after Chris Wallace left. If Bret leaves too then i am fresh out of good things to say about them.
@8124@rameshgupta@Properganda He's going to botch it, Biden has never been good on his feet except in a clock-is-right-twice-a-day sense. And while most of the time that's not really important, it's vitally important in an election year.
@acarson@rameshgupta@Properganda I thought he did ok in SOTU, even getting into some seemingly unscripted “crowd-work” with the hostile republicans. And he most definitely prevailed in the previous 1-on-1’s vs Trump.
@8124@rameshgupta@Properganda I don't know. I mean he could surprise me I guess, but then he has to get through the rest of the time without stepping on anymore rakes, and I just don't see that happening. I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect that a lot of people are going to be in for a 2016-style shock come November, except this time will be way worse because Trump is nothing but openly petty and vindictive these days.
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