#journalism fail

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Elon will probably have the community note removed, like he usually does on any facts that don’t conform to his opinion

[mysharona1987]

[reading-writing-revolution]

(via sanewashing and wishcasting: how the press continues to fail us)

[Wishcasting is] the act of interpreting information or a situation in a way that casts it as favorable or desired, despite the fact that there is no evidence for such a conclusion; a wishful forecast. Ultimate failure for journalism the last four year. “See something, say something” has been the watch phrase since 9/11 and corporate American journalism saw it all and said nothing. Traitors. They bought in after billionaires bought them up. They let it happen -- job security over securing democracy.

Now we have to restart journalism through citizen journalists on places like Tumblr, Threads, Substack and BlueSky. Look for those truth-tellers in those places and elsewhere. I’ll try to repost their goods here so you can find them more easily. It’s all too much to consume, so find your faves, read them, and support them. Citizen journalists are the only way left to find the truth.

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WTF Men's Health Australia?!

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Yeah, of COURSE the Daily Mail had to blame that asshole’s 50+ victims on his ex-fiance. Urgh.

They also tried to rally support behind the neo-fascist murderer who killed Jo Cox in the street several years back because “he was scared his council house was going to be given to an immigrant family“.

Because if there’s a wrong take to have in regards to awful people, the Mail is sure to make it...

But then, it’s a thing they’ve been doing for a while...

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Can you say coverup??

Mayor Eric Adams, journalists and the NYPD all conspired to keep Daniel Penny’s name protected while assassinating the character of Jordan Neely.

And, as if that wasn’t bad enough, they all have repeatedly omitted the fact that Daniel Penny’s father is a retired, high ranking NYPD police officer who very likely worked with Eric Adams when he was a cop. These are completely newsworthy and germane facts, but the media is bending over backwards to not mention any of it.

EDIT: Please reblog with this important correction:

I have turned off the previous version of this post so as not to add to disinformation

Now, we learn that the gruesome video that was released has been edited to omit the parts where Daniel Penny was warned that he was killing Jordan Neely, but continued choking him anyway.

Worse still, Penny has not been arrested. And instead of charging Daniel Penny, the police are trying to force a Grand Jury hearing instead of doing what they would do if the positions were reversed and Neely had murdered Penny in cold blood, in front of dozens of witnesses.

This entire thing is a perverted travesty of justice and reveals just how closely journalists work with the police to protect the police and other murderous white supremacists.

This is what intertwined systems of structural racism looks like.

We need justice for Jordan Neely.

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“I think there is a simpler explanation to the tragedy and the barbarism on October the 7th, which is that you cannot indefinitely contain a group of people under military occupation for decades and expect that there won't be violence. There is violence in the Middle East, and the root cause of that violence is an illegal military occupation that is now in what, it's 57th year in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. And this is not just me saying this.

I mean, people like General Shlomo Brom, one of Israel's most famous military strategists, says, the oppressed will rise against the oppressor because it's absurd to hope that Israel can indefinitely contain with its military might millions of Palestinians who claim the right to a free, normal life. That is the statement of Shlomo Brom.

It's not true that the previous Gaza conflicts were all started by Hamas. Some were, but not all of them. Ceasefires have been broken on both sides and that's been well documented by multiple neutral observers and international observers.

But just on the broader point, Israel was never done with Gaza. This myth that they pulled out all the settlers and the occupation ended, first of all, under international law, Gaza is still occupied.

The Israelis control most of the land borders, all of the naval waters, all of the airspace. You tell me a country in the world that would accept that, any kind of country that you would call independent or sovereign. The Israelis even control the population register in Gaza, which means if you're born in Gaza, the Israelis are the ones who register you in control.

All of the information about your birth, life, and death. So this idea that Gaza was free, it was not free. And the boycott, the siege, I mean, it was not defensive.

Again, multiple human rights groups, including Israeli human rights groups like Gisha have said over the years, that the boycott was not defensive, that it was arbitrary, that it was cruel. Items like pasta, coriander, right? These are items that were banned at certain points going into Gaza.

Even now, David Miliband, the former British Foreign Minister, head of the International Rescue Committee, went on CNN this week to point out that dual-use items are being blocked going into Gaza. Entire aid trucks are being turned away because there's a scissors in them. A pair of scissors is inside a truck.

For medical purposes, the entire truck is turned away. For years now, the people in Gaza have been blockaded, besieged. The UN said it would be unlivable years ago.

We're now in 2024. It's certainly unlivable now. So no, I don't believe the Israeli narrative.

And one last thing, let's say everything Israel said was true. That still does not justify the collective punishment of 2.2 million people, half of whom are children, and who are now in the midst of one of the worst famines in living memory, according to the experts.

[…]

I've been very, very, very critical of Hamas. I've been critical of Hamas for decades. I've been critical of Hamas since October the 7th.

I was critical of Hamas on October the 7th. So no, I'm not sparing in my criticism of Hamas, but the missing context here, of course, is that we don't fund Hamas. I'm not responsible for Hamas.

I am responsible for the famine in Gaza. I am responsible for the killing of 30,000 people in Gaza because my taxes paid for it. The United States government is funding one side of this conflict.

The United States does not fund Hamas, last time I checked. So this idea that we are either fund them or protect them with a UN veto or arm Hamas, I don't think we send arms to Hamas, we do to Israel. Therefore, that is the focus of my journalism.

And by the way, yes, the focus of my journalism right now is on criticism of Israel because the rest of the US media has completely failed on this issue, has dropped the ball. I mean, I can go through The New York Times, The Washington Post, and show the exact opposite, pieces that are providing cover and safety for the Israeli narrative, including in absurd headlines where we go out of our way to use the passive voice and never cite that Israel is responsible for bombing a hospital or Israel is responsible for bombing a refugee camp. So I'm trying to do a little bit of correction on my end with this new media organization.

But look, Hamas is a brutal group. What it did on October the 7th was pure terror. They killed innocents, they abducted innocent babies as hostages into the war crime.

But none of that justifies what Israel is doing right now. And nor are we responsible for what Hamas is doing. But we are, in New York and across the country, sadly, we are responsible for the crimes that Israel is carrying out.

And that's the point I'm trying to make.”

—Mehdi Hasan

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Showtime slated “The Guantanamo Candidate,” a 30 minute-long episode of its Vice documentary series, for May 28.

The episode opens with a shot of the outside the US prison complex at the southern tip of Cuba, where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis served as a lawyer from March 2006 to January 2007.

Vice reporters had secured on camera interviews with a former detainee, Mansoor Adayfi, and a guard at the prison, staff sergeant Joe Hickman. Both said they remembered seeing DeSantis at the prison during a controversial detainee hunger strike. The Vice crew traveled to Guantanamo Bay to attempt to try to speak to military staff, and made several attempts to ask DeSantis about the allegations directly, eventually confronting him at a press conference in Israel, according to a detailed description provided to Semafor.

But Showtime viewers who turned on their televisions May 28 never saw the episode. (They were treated to a re-run of the scripted drama Yellowjackets.)

Showtime and Vice cited “scheduling” in a statement after The Hollywood Reporter noticed the missing episode.

But in fact, two people familiar with the incident said, the Paramount-owned cable channel ditched the DeSantis episode over fears of the political consequences. One person briefed on the decision told Semafor that the company’s Washington lobbyist, DeDe Lea, raised concerns about the piece.

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