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Re:Al Jazeera condemns Israeli government decision to shut d... by yonixwm on Sunday May 05, 2024 @04:24PM (#40267961)
Everyone in the comments just assume al jazera is right even tough we have well documented cases when they spread claims who are totally wrong with no journalism due process

See: https://honestreporting.com/damage-done-how-al-jazeeras-fake...

So to say truth has been silenced is off the mark imo

Edit: haaretz link https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2024-0...

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Re:Al Jazeera condemns Israeli government decision to shut d... by aqme28 on Sunday May 05, 2024 @04:53PM (#40268237)
They're a modern news site so I agree with you that fake or sloppy news is a problem,

however this example is that they interviewed someone who made an inflammatory claim, and then the next day removed the claims when it came out that they were false. That hardly seems that bad for our modern news landscape.

And then you have a meme of some AJ reporters saying "Terrorists in press dresses." captioned "You can't put lipstick on a pig, you can't put a press vest on a terrorist."

That's pretty inflammatory and biased too!

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Re:Al Jazeera condemns Israeli government decision to shut d... by oliwarner on Monday May 06, 2024 @02:40AM (#40271826)
And HonestReporting has never done that?
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Re:Al Jazeera condemns Israeli government decision to shut d... by npteljes on Monday May 06, 2024 @02:46AM (#40271865)
Its truthfulness is also rated as Mixed elsewhere, so yeah, it's not like they shut down the Quatari Reuters.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-jazeera/

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