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Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by Gabriel54 on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:43PM (#38044393)
The arrogance of sending weapons to a country that is killing journalists and their families, and then telling those same journalists to stop talking about it, is astounding.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/11/shireen-abu-akleh-i...

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/26/arab-world-speaks-...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-killed-11-p...

Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by tomohawk on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:16PM (#38044710)
Al Jazeera is a known mouthpiece of Hamas. They amplified the Hamas misinformation about that explosion in the hospital parking lot, caused by a missile fired by themselves, into a mass casualty event that never happened. They laundered Hamas propaganda and NYT and others then picked it up.

Reuters "fact checked" the hundreds of killed at the music festival and said it didn't happen. Of course, their fact check looked at the wrong images.

Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by Gabriel54 on Friday October 27, 2023 @08:00PM (#38045494)
I'm not going to dispute that there are hidden agendas behind news organizations. The point is that in any case, the work they do is important, and the people working for these organizations should not be targeted and killed.
Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by whatshisface on Friday October 27, 2023 @08:11PM (#38045572)
Do we know they were targeted? From what I have heard, the attacks have been so broad that anyone could have died in them.
Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by kibibu on Friday October 27, 2023 @08:40PM (#38045769)
> Reuters "fact checked" the hundreds of killed at the music festival and said it didn't happen. Of course, their fact check looked at the wrong images.

This is such an absurd misreading of the situation that I can comfortably discount your other points without any further consideration. Reuters fact checked a specific video that was claiming to be people running from the festival, but was footage from a Bruno Mars concert 2 days earlier. Show me where Reuters claim the attack didn't happen.

Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by tomohawk on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:18PM (#38046080)
Re:US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera new... by whatshisface on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:13PM (#38046444)
>They weren’t [running for their lives]—at the Oct. 4 concert depicted in the video—but Reuters makes no mention of the fact that hundreds of Israelis were actually slaughtered at a concert three days later.

This is the dispute over the video.