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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by yonixw on Sunday May 05, 2024 @05:03PM (#40268356)
> that print things you don't like

But that the whole point. It's not just that Israel "don't like it". It's false claims.

> aren't sufficiently loud about retractions

And what if there are no retraction? only if the backlash is big enough? Like in the case where there were no hundreds of dead in a direct bombing but a 50 dead in a failed PIJ rocked on hospital:

https://archive.is/r6noB

and the same version today:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/16/israel-ha...

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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by JumpCrisscross on Sunday May 05, 2024 @05:06PM (#40268389)
> in the case where there were no hundreds of dead in a direct bombing but a 50 dead in a failed PIJ rocked on hospital

Almost every news agency got this wrong to some degree [1]. What matters is whether they corrected their story as new information arose.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/business/media/hospital-b...

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