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What an overblown headline.
What do you think the difference between "media silence" and "ministers not making statements to the media" is?
It's not really about what I think.
Ordering media silence means the media has been ordered not to report on something, like the Chinese media and declining economic indicators. That's not the case here.
That would be a government enforced media silence - media silence just means people not talking to the media or the media not reporting on a subject, it doesn't require a direct order from the government to the media to not report on something. Media might create a voluntary silence, where they agree not to report on a subject, or might have a silence pushed on them, like football's "silenzio stampa", where teams will refuse to talk to or interact with the press when they're unhappy with reporting.
The article isn't overblown. No statements on the bombing are allowed to be made by the Israeli government to fake plausible deniabilty.
It's like a new trend I'm seeing here on lemmy. Every anti israel article some guy comes in and calls it "overblown and out of proportions" when the article is clearly backed up with evidence.
Silencing the media is a much bigger deal than a government body not talking publicly about a military operation.
I believe the term for that is a media blackout. Or silencing journalists.
Netanyahu is demanding media silence from the ministers. In direct response to one of them admitting in a social media post that israel did the bombing.
If they knew secret war operation details Netanyahu wouldn't need to mention this silencing to begin, with since leaking that is already forbidden.
Wow. The only dude that actually read the article instead of reacting to the headline got down voted. Lemmy truly is just DIY reddit.
Thanks bro but I didn't see my Lemmy Gold where is it
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Its self hosted. You need to edit your comment and add the medal emoji.
As of the time I wrote this, dude's only got two down votes and 13 up votes. I wouldn't call that indicative of any trends.
When I wrote my comment he was in the negative. I am not psychic.