The media is not transparent enough about the limitations of reporting from places run by thugs. Examples, from Russia to Gaza to North Korea and also China, abound.
Dan, in the video, Marti Friedman comes across to me as quite credible. As he is discussing a time before you were at the AP, on what basis do you find that he is exaggerating and "betraying" his colleagues at AP. He is either lying or not about his editor having told him to suppress the detail about Hamas fighting and civilian garb. And as much as several other sources have documented that this is what Hamas does, his story seems quite plausible, and it doesn't sound like the kind of story that anyone but a psychopath would make up out of whole cloth.
“That leaves the world totally reliant on local freelancers …” Seriously?! Al Jazeera is there. Do u consider them “local free lancers?!” Remember Israel in 2021 blew up the building that housed their offices as well as AP’s. And shall we discuss how the AP colluded early on with the Nazis and how AP photos were used for Nazi propaganda? Cooperation so AP could have access? Face it! One can’t trust any media 100% unless it’s something like hurricane reporting and even then they’ve been known to err.
I posted this to an Israeli very-left-leaning group as "material for thought" and the single response so far has been: "This is worse than Kahanist propaganda". I kid you not.
Should media provide a "warning" on stories reported from 'unfree' places? NO! News consumers aren't stupid, 10%: No, not because "News consumers aren't stupid", but because news consumers, and the reporters they hear and read, have both have some bias of understanding and/or experience. For some time I have been willing reporters to 'give me the facts' rather that use events as headings for their views. These views are often not imparted so much by a statement as by the implication of an assumed agreement by the listener through voice tone at the point of 'termination'. So no, a 'warning' would only tarnish before I had given a reasonable hearing to the first sentence!
Let us look in the mirror.
Dan, in the video, Marti Friedman comes across to me as quite credible. As he is discussing a time before you were at the AP, on what basis do you find that he is exaggerating and "betraying" his colleagues at AP. He is either lying or not about his editor having told him to suppress the detail about Hamas fighting and civilian garb. And as much as several other sources have documented that this is what Hamas does, his story seems quite plausible, and it doesn't sound like the kind of story that anyone but a psychopath would make up out of whole cloth.
Finally someone writes truth with clarity...finally
“That leaves the world totally reliant on local freelancers …” Seriously?! Al Jazeera is there. Do u consider them “local free lancers?!” Remember Israel in 2021 blew up the building that housed their offices as well as AP’s. And shall we discuss how the AP colluded early on with the Nazis and how AP photos were used for Nazi propaganda? Cooperation so AP could have access? Face it! One can’t trust any media 100% unless it’s something like hurricane reporting and even then they’ve been known to err.
I posted this to an Israeli very-left-leaning group as "material for thought" and the single response so far has been: "This is worse than Kahanist propaganda". I kid you not.
I wish I could say "unbelievable," but I cannot
Should media provide a "warning" on stories reported from 'unfree' places? NO! News consumers aren't stupid, 10%: No, not because "News consumers aren't stupid", but because news consumers, and the reporters they hear and read, have both have some bias of understanding and/or experience. For some time I have been willing reporters to 'give me the facts' rather that use events as headings for their views. These views are often not imparted so much by a statement as by the implication of an assumed agreement by the listener through voice tone at the point of 'termination'. So no, a 'warning' would only tarnish before I had given a reasonable hearing to the first sentence!
it's not an unreasonable view! There is no perfect solution (including the boycott of such places).