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Israel Furious that Elderly Captive Spoke of Humane Treatment by Hamas
(electronicintifada.net)
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Respectfully, I don't know if, er, electronicintifada.net is exactly a good source for unbiased news on this topic. I wonder what the article says...
It truly is a work of science to take "some government propaganda officials are reportedly upset" and somehow turn that into "The entire state of Israel is FURIOUS...".
Almost as if the headline was engineered to reinforce pre-existing biases or something.
If the state's propaganda mouthpieces are upset it isn't unreasonable to say the state, itself, is upset.
Israel's clamped down on more legitimate sources and is even trying to kick of Al Jazeera (which has consistently led in terms of accuracy in journalism).
American news isn't a good source for unbiased news either, but people still post it.
Seems like if it were propaganda they would have omitted that. Seems legit.
It's difficult to square that with posting a headline that only mentions "humane treatment".
I'm sure you're smart enough to know that media bias can be expressed in a wide variety of ways. Hell, a lot of Fox News' reporting is itself perfectly fine, but then it'll be editorialized into painting an extremely sensational picture.
I honestly don't know why people post obvious propaganda like this. It's like they don't even care about convincing anyone and are trying to undermine their own argument. It's not as if you can't find more than enough very critical coverage of Israel in reputable sources. Maybe they're so far down the rabbit hole, they genuinely think obvious propaganda outlets are more reliable than something like reuters.