• UsernameHere@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 days ago

    Two things: you should learn more about what the people of Gaza have been going through. What you’re describing isn’t so far off of what free Palestinians have been experiencing under siege.

    I want both the people of Gaza and the hostages to be happy. Don’t you?

    Second: be more skeptical of news sources and find your news from multiple sources. This whole thread is about how biased the Jerusalem Post is.

    So I should trust screenshots of article headlines instead of the actual article?

    Given the name of the lemmy community that this thread is posted in, is there any possibility that bias influences the opinion of credibility for the article?

    Or is that kind of skepticism not welcomed?

    The fact that you couldn’t even find this article at first and that now you’re taking it at face value makes it pretty clear you need to improve your news literacy.

    Someone posted a screenshot of the article instead of posting the article. I tried to do my due diligence by reading the article to check its credibility but I could only see the websites homepage in the image.

    I tried to use the search function to find the article but I’m on mobile and was unable to scroll the search results.

    The fact that you want me to trust screenshots of article headlines but not the article says a lot.

    • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      So I don’t agree with you at all, I think the history of politicized communications out of Israel has been consistent enough and about enough different topics that I think it’s fair to have an escalated standard for substantiation. There have been so many preposterous lies or bizarre shifts of emphasis (e.g. we never bomb hospitals!) that the same norms that testify to institutional credibility of reliable sources, in this case do the opposite.

      But that said, it’s not nothing that there’s reporting to this effect, and I have to say I’m pretty disappointed in this community for only replying to you with low effort posts, dogpiling of downvotes, whataboutism and abuse of moderation powers.

      To me that represents a breakdown of communication and/or the lack of existence of norms.