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‘NYTimes’ biased coverage of Amsterdam soccer violence attempts to hide Israeli racism (mondoweiss.net)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22369893

By James North
November 10, 2024

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

This kind of behavior is harmful to the legitimacy of journalism itself and entirely self defeating at pushing an agenda.

When journalism is mistrusted, misinformation is boosted. When people find out information is misrepresented, they will seek out other sources and be less likely to believe information even when it is legitimate.

We all lost today and the significance of this loss has not dawned on the news agencies. I really hope they don't come crying again about how journalism is dying because people don't care for buying newspapers anymore.

I really hope at some point we go back to the apolitical, strict facts representation and unbiased coverage of events. That's what journalism is supposed to be. Not this tailored version of events reporting that we often get.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Journalism has always been this way under capitalism. Journalists lied about Iraq. They lied about the Black Panther Party. They lied about Vietnam. The term "Yellow Journalism" came about in the 1890s to describe the inflammatory newspapers of the era.

The Edward R. Murrows and Walter Cronkites are the exception, not the rule, under capitalist news reporting because the entire industry relies on selling what sells, instead of broadcasting what informs.