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by w1nt3rmu4e 2762 days ago
I've seen some truly awful journalism from Reuters. Articles that were so agenda driven as to almost laughably gloss over facts in order to present the desired narrative. (Laughable if reputations and money weren't on the line.)

I've called some of the offending journalists out on social media, which I encourage everyone to do.
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ako 2760 days ago
This is what happens if we all want to consume news for free, cost of gathering news also has to go to zero...
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triplesec 2762 days ago
Can you suggest some better-informed sources for us? I'd be very interested in more nuanced available sources
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AsyncAwait 2762 days ago
I have several major news apps on my phone and what I've found is that they're all reporting the same story, with very similar biases, within minutes of each other.

They all seem to drink from the same fountain.

You'd basically need to know what biases which outlets have to what stories and apply a filter accordingly, which can be extremely time consuming.

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xfitm3 2761 days ago
What about the AP? They seem to be rooted in factual reporting.
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AsyncAwait 2761 days ago
With the AP, it depends heavily on the thing they're covering. Often times they try to give every side and are indeed pretty good, but then I noticed that i.e. when it comes to Palestine, they often run headlines like "Palestinians dead in Gaza", which implies that some Palestinians just dropped dead, while in reality the headline should have been "Israel shoots Palestinians in Gaza" or similar.

They even did this when their own reporter, who was clearly marked PRESS was shot.

Here's the story as reported by the AP[1], notice the headline: "AP cameraman shot during Gaza protest", no mention of Israel and might even give the impression that Gazans shot him.

The vast majority of people only skim the headlines and AP knows this, so this is hardly an accident.

1 - https://www.apnews.com/65bd5c31690342b886ab5b8f72b37e53

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calvinbhai 2753 days ago
Serious question: How is it possible for AP reporter to know the nationality of the shooter? To be honest "AP cameraman shot during Gaza protest" is a more accurate and correct reporting by the reporter. Isn't it?

I have no bias in this conflict, I'm neither pro/anti palestenians/israelis, because I just cant wrap my head around it, and I refuse to believe what any major news media tries to feed people about this conflict.

If all of AP reports are this unbiased, then probably I'll have to start subscribing to them.

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