• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    These things happened hours apart. And many of the stubs behind the Iran headlines made no mention of why they would fire missiles at Israel. After today I won’t be surprised when we start getting people in here who think Iran fired for no reason and Israel hasn’t invaded Lebanon. It was an absolute failure of news media.

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      4 hours ago

      I’m not defending the media by any stretch, just that both events got some coverage.

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        2 hours ago

        It’s called moving the goalposts. You called out their Bs claim, so they just threw out another one.

        Anyone can go and listen to npr up first. The title for yesterday includes “Israel escalates in Lebanon” and then today they point to Israel vowing repercussions for Iran. In the podcast itself, they talk about how this was almost certainly retaliation for the killing for the Hezbollah leader.

        This whole idea that the whole of western media is ignoring what Israel is typical of the false Bs pushed by the op.