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fuck-hamas-go-israel · 6 months

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Ethnic cleansing? Genocide? Apartheid?

Throwing around these buzzwords to describe the Israel-Hamas war because you’ve seen them on social media doesn’t make you right, and it doesn’t make you an activist.

It makes you ignorant, intellectually dishonest, and lazy for parroting biased talking points with no concept about what these terms actually mean.

What is apartheid?

Well, it was first used to describe the political system in South Africa and today’s Namibia whereby racism was institutionalised. This manner of governance meant that clear racial segregation would occur, in a manner that benefited the white race and would actively oppress those who had darker skin.

This meant that there were white-only spaces, white people would get prioritised when it came to education and jobs, and relationships/marriages between white peoples and coloured people were illegal.

Is Israel objectively an apartheid state? There are no laws that actively favour one group over the other. There is a sizeable population of Israeli Arabs that can thrive in the same way as the Israeli Jews can. There are laws against discrimination on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

Palestinians from Gaza are allowed to work in Israel through a work permit system. There are about 150,000 Palestinians working in Israel, most of which live in Israel and some come from Gaza/the West Bank. They aren’t denied rights institutionally.

Is it harder to get a job or education in Israel if you’re a Palestinian from Gaza? Sure, because of different governments. It’s like how it’s a lot easier for you to find a job in your own country (in terms of paperwork and bureaucracy) than overseas. But you’re not denied the right to apply.

Of course, if you have a history of violence, a criminal record, or your family has ties to terrorists, then it’ll be a lot harder to get an approved work permit. But that’s not apartheid. That’s common sense, and a regulation practiced by all countries that minimally desire to protect their own population from danger.

Ethnic cleansing and genocide

These two concepts can go hand-in-hand. Ethnic cleansing refers to the mass expulsion or killing of a group of people based on their ethnicity. Similarly, genocide is the purposeful killing of a group of people solely with the intention of annihilating them.

Famous examples? The Holocaust, of course, where the Nazi regime believed in the superiority of the Aryan race and decided to declare genocide on the Jews, Romanis, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, people with “Asian features”, and many many other groups. Anyone who they didn’t think was “pure”.

Their aim was to ensure that the Aryan race propagated without having “impure” blood affecting the bloodlines. They even started a eugenics programme called Lebensborn to ensure that more pure Aryan babies were born.

More recent examples? The Rwandan genocide where the Hutus attempted to wipe out the Tutsis on the basis of ethnicity. They mandated that Tutsis mention their ethnicity on state-issued ID cards in order for the Hutus in power to be able to identify them and then kill them.

Or the Yazidi genocide which happened so recently, in which ISIL killed, raped, and sent thousands of Yazidis into conversion camps on the basis of their ethnicity. They also took Yazidi women as sex slaves and raped and tortured them.

Or the Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine State in Myanmar, and how there was a mass killing and expulsion of them from the country, forcing them to flee to Bangladesh to take refuge, crating the world’s largest refugee camp.

Or how ISIS killed thousands of people from Christian groups in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Libya because of their faith, leading the US, EU, and UK to label this as religious genocide and condemned their actions.

Has Israel been practicing ethnic cleansing and genocide on Palestinians all these years?

Well, the birth rate of the Palestinian population in Gaza, the West Bank, and in Israel has been steadily increasing all these years.

So, no. No ethnic cleansing, no genocide. They are free to have as many children as they desire.

The UN Genocide Convention

The United Nations has 5 actions that constitute genocide.

1. Killing members of a target group

Israel is targeting Hamas officials with the aim of wiping out the terrorist group and ensuring that such a deadly attack on Israeli soil doesn’t happen again. I suppose you could call it genocide against Hamas, but they’re killing Hamas because they’re terrorists, not because they’re Palestinian. Shouldn’t everyone believe in genocide against terrorists?

But look at Black Saturday. Look at Hamas’ rhetoric. They repeatedly call for the annihilation of Israel and genocide of Jews. When will the media start believing what they say, word for word, instead of trying to spin it into “hmm maybe they want to kill all the Jews because they’re freedom fighters!”

War has collateral damage. Of course the innocent civilians don’t deserve to suffer just because of the actions of their government, but there have been warnings given to the Palestinian civilians prior to Israel striking the areas. There are consequences of attacking a country first, and then having that country attack you back.

2. Causing people of the group serious bodily or mental harm

The UN refers to sexual violence as the prime example of non-fatal harm.

Sexual violence has occurred. Hamas have kidnapped and raped women and even paraded the bodies of half-naked women around. But I f Israel had done the same, it’ll be the first thing appearing on everyone’s BBC push notifications (without even being confirmed as true).

3. Imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group

Many people refer to the blockade that Israel imposed around the Gaza Strip as an example of this.

This blockade was imposed by both Israel and Egypt in 2005. Its aim was to prevent smuggling of weapons into Gaza, and isolate the reign of Hamas to the region. This was to ensure the safety of Israel and Egypt.

Did this blockade pose serious challenges to the Gazan civilians? Of course. But that’s a consequence of having a terrorist government. If you have a terrorist group running your country, don’t be surprised if neighbouring countries are extra careful about who or what they allow in or out of the borders.

Many authorities from other Arab nations have also expressed approval of Egypt’s border restrictions, and even encouraged Egypt to flood the terror tunnels that Hamas has dug under the city. As a side note, other Arab nations have not historically been very kind or welcoming to Palestinians. Syria has killed over 4000 Palestinians, and many Arab countries are now refusing any refuge for Palestinians. But no one cares about that because it doesn’t make Israel look bad. All they do now is use the images of dead Palestinians under the hands of Syria and reuse them to propagate fake news.

The blockade has been labelled as a human rights violation because of collective punishment. Many humanitarian organisations believe that the blockade has caused the Palestinian civilians disproportionate harm.

Contrary to popular belief, Israel isn’t disallowing humanitarian aid from coming through the borders. Fuel, food, hygiene products, clothes, and shoes have been coming through the borders regularly for years. The Gaza Strip also has electricity and internet access and water.

Do all these items reach the Palestinian civilians? Well, there has been evidence that Hamas has been intercepting a lot of the supplies sent by humanitarian groups. This is not surprising since the UNRWA tweeted that Hamas has stole fuel from hospitals in Gaza in order to launch more rockets at Israel (but quickly deleted it after realising that it goes against their agenda to paint Hamas in a bad light.) In addition, the returned hostages have mentioned that there are many aid supplies hidden in the terror tunnels by Hamas. Instead of giving them to the civilians, they are hoarding it for themselves.

There has also been video evidence that some people are reselling these aid items in stores at exorbitant prices in order to turn profits. This has been well-documented for the last 10 years.

Is blockading the region to mitigate terrorism a disproportionate response? Well, it’s like asking if heightened security and stricter border control at airports is a disproportionate response after 9/11. Is being cautious and worrying about the security of your country an irrational reaction to the constant threat of terrorism?

4. Preventing births

Gaza’s population growth rate per annum is about 1.99%, which is the 39th highest in the world! Their population is allowed to propagate freely.

Israel isn’t preventing births of Palestinian babies.

5. Forcibly transferring children out of the group

No, Israel hasn’t been taking Palestinian children and forcing them to convert/keeping young Palestinian girls as sex slaves. Like I said, if this was truly happening, all the news outlets would be so quick to publish the story before verifying it.

Can we trust the UN Genocide standards?

The UN is known for corruption and have been exploiting the Palestinian people by selling them the humanitarian supplies instead of distributing them for free, which they should because these supplies literally are donations.

The UN also has differing standards of what they would label as genocide. For example, they refuse to call what China is doing to the Uyghurs in Xinjiang as genocide, even though the situation does fit many of their own criteria.

Hence, to all of you out there overusing these terms without knowing what they mean, make up your own mind about things. No one can force you to believe anything and no one can force you to change your mind.

But at the very least, do your due diligence and educate yourself before spouting tired buzzwords. Repeating misinformation doesn’t help anyone and can be very harmful.

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lesbianralzarek · 2 months

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why does every article reporting on idf war crimes go "hamas, who started the war on october 7th with their brutal terrorist attack slaughtering innocent israeli civilians, has condemned the idf's use of-"? like, nearly verbatim every single time. we know about october 7th. we know by now. half the time, hamas isnt even relevant but they gotta find some way to sow doubt and numb any potential compassion responses. will you get fired if you show sympathy for murdered palestinian civilians without first adding a disclaimer saying its all their fault for being born in gaza? if you call "palestinians under 18" children? if you use the words "murdered" or "brutal" or "massacre" for acts that didnt occur on october 7th? if you call a spade a spade? why are israeli reports front page news without proper fact-checking but palestinian reporting is always "allegedly" even when theres video evidence? why does the idf not get the hamas treatment of reminding everyone that theyre biased before treating their words as law, like they havent been caught bold-faced lying again and again?

#soooooo fucking infuriating #'palestinians are allegedly starving but thats what hamas (who are savage terrorists in case you forgot) said as well so who knows?'#'idf soldiers are allegedly bragging about and showing pictures and videos of their war crimes on social media but #its not in english so we may never know what theyre saying. palestinian ''civilians'' are translating so whatever they say must be wrong'#'in other news. heres what ''doctors'' are referring to as a ''calendar'' but is written in arabic (terrorist language) so the idf must be #telling the truth when they say its proof they are all evil and must in some nebulous way suddenly stop living'#to be fair. the 'secret hamas names list disguised as calendar but REALLY about oct 7' shit was the target of skepticism quite early on #but it really does show how often the idf lies to justify obvious war crimes #maybe they should provide verified evidence or even just be given a bias disclaimer before printing their claims as fact???#every single fucking death toll is phrased as 'hamas-run ministry of health reports death toll of x' like?#yeah? thats their fucking government? what else do you expect?#you do understand that the healthcare portion of their government is probably more reputable #than what the phrasing of those headlines are obviously trying to imply?#i understand that bias is still possible there but its not armed combatants making shit up #its doctors who receive govt paychecks doing their best to identify the disfigured bodies not buried under rubble #youre not slick with that wording

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itspileofgoodthings · 8 days

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like. Nina listens to Taylor, moderately keeps up with the front-facing aspects of her life, enjoys her quality, has her minor critiques, recognizes her place in the current culture, can set her down and do other things when she wants to, and most importantly knows who Taylor is through her art.

#you cannot engage with Taylor completely casually it doesn’t work #you won’t get to know her #you have to let her in. go on a sunset walk with your headphones in and open your heart to her and just HEAR her #and then once you know who she is you can go from there #but there absolutely is this level of refusing to get to know her #and I am truly (once again) not addressing people who have that door simply closed (my mom! my older sister!)#people whose opinions matter so much to me #but I am talking to the people who wrestle and want to love her but actually hate her and idk. I feel that it is something where—-#well it’s like people isn’t it. you have to get to know her without judgment #and without bias #you have to know her FROM her #(which does not involve Easter eggs OR celebrity headlines if you hate both of those things #and then if you don’t like her you do in fact have to leave without making that other people’s problem #especially Taylor’s!#I am thinking of this girlboss journalist who wrote a piece on Taylor the other day #that was LIVID with Taylor for sharing only positive reviews on her insta story #(as is not only Taylor’s right but literally normal behavior??????????)#and was practically foaming at the mouth about how Taylor’s level of power was getting scary #and it’s like. I’m so sorry for swearing but BITCH #a lot of the numbers are out of Taylor’s control and also NOT REAL. Taylor also DESERVES her success and is simply doing her job very well #and riding the waves of virality she knows how to create in ADDITION to that #also stop worshipping power and money!!!! the way you clearly do!!!!!!!#Taylor is not doing anything with it except her job!!!!!!!!!!!!!#she is also CLEARLY a human being who suffers #SEE HER AS SUCH #and end it THERE #INSANE #turning off reblogs for this one #because I have gotten carried away but wow

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samaspic31 · 5 months

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You can’t make this shit up you click on an article about how hamas hostages were treated (for the sake of checking yourself on bias and with the intention to verify it with multiple sources) and the headline will be « return from the horrors of hamas » and then the text is actually « they treated me rather well just didn’t have much food and i was in danger due to Israeli airstrikes” You know the shit the government claims necessary to rescue them. This world is bullshit

#sam speaks #idk what to tw this #let me know if it needs one.#the buas im media reporting is staggerring. the lack kf context. the misleading headlines. the biased picking.#oh yikes i typed hamas in the search bar and ‘’free palestine from Hamas’’ came up how fucking disgusting liberation has to come from within #anyways did you know people are incredibly politically shortsighted and bad at grasping scopes of violence and bias #(just in case yeah october 7 was an atrocity it must be understood as retaliation against colonialism tho)#the nyt article about a very moderately left newspaper going ‘’youre just jealous israel is successful (at war crimes ? sir)’’ FROM A FORMER #EMPLOYEE talk about bias broke me #also wikipedia constantly listing israeli deaths before and continuously giving credit to baseless accusations of antisemitism towards any #thing palestinian or even sympathetic. or even not violently against. sigh #also did you know the uk ambassador’s most ‘’progressive’’ stance ? that israel needs to ‘’harness the economic potential of its arab #community too’’#im turning into the joker

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ladymazzy · 1 year

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Unconscious bias training is ‘nonsense’, says outgoing race relations chair

From the article;

'In a wide-ranging interview, the sociologist and cultural activist said he was proud of the role that his institute had played in putting institutional racism on the national agenda several decades ago, but was dismayed at the rise of terms such as unconscious bias.

“We made arguments to the state even when we’re on platforms alongside them saying this was nonsense. It’s racism we want to talk about, it’s systemic behaviour we want to talk about, institutionalised racism we want to talk about, not unconscious bias or racial awareness,” Prescod said. “It’s the stuff that kills that we want to talk about, the stuff that stunts lives that we want to talk about, the stuff that deforms lives that we want to talk about.”

The outgoing chair pointed to the increasing concern of a school-to-prison pipeline in the UK, where young minority ethnic children excluded from schools are forced into pupil referral units where they are groomed by criminal gangs – a clear example of systemic racism, he claims. “To talk about unconscious biases is an obvious sidestepping of the matter. And it’s also wanting to let people off,” Prescod said.

#institue of race relations #colin prescod #uk politics #uk racism #guardian articles #i know people are going to read that headline in the most superficial face value bad faith way #to try to bolster their claim that 'racism isn't a problem here'#or add to their dismissive critiques of 'id politics' and 'woke'#but the truth is that we are drowning in white supremacist ideology and racism #everytime we try to tackle it the status quo waters it down to try to make it seem as innocuous as possible #even as it continues to marginalise billions across the globe and render the planet uninhabitable #the 'unconsciousness' of the bias towards white supremacist thinking should indicate the ubiquity of it #instead it's been taken to mean 'don't worry it's not your fault & you're still a good person!'#it's used to assuage the individual rather than a *starting point* of a more incisive assessment of the status quo

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uboat53 · 1 year

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The "lab leak" theory of Covid-19's emergence is getting some new traction lately due to the release of a new government report, but I wanted to take a look at the science side of determining where a disease comes from.

Specifically, I want to look at the accusation that, because it's taken so long to figure out the origin of Covid-19, there must be something nefarious going on.

Obviously we can't rule it out, but the fact that it's three years later and we still have no certainty as to the origins of our pandemic virus is nothing special in science. It took 20 years to figure out where HIV came from, 5 years for MERS (maybe), 14 years for SARS, and we still have no idea where Ebola originated about a half century after its emergence.

So the caution I want to give to everyone, as a scientist, is this:

Don't jump to conclusions just because we haven't found a definitive origin for Covid-19 yet. This kind of thing takes time, often a decade or more. Focus on the actual evidence in front of you instead of how long it's taking or what you don't know yet and remember that the people who are telling you to do otherwise aren't trying to find the truth, they're trying to push a political agenda.

As I mentioned, I'm writing this because of a large to-do over the Department of Energy joining the FBI in assessing that the "lab leak" theory is more likely than the "natural origin" theory. Of course, it should be noted that most other government agencies involved in understanding the issue disagree, favoring the "natural origin" theory, and that even the Department of Energy has "low confidence" in its assessment (the FBI, for its part, has "moderate confidence" in its assessment).

I do note that most news sources reporting this story aren't reporting those caveats or, if they are, they are burying it several paragraphs deep. As I said: politics, not science.

If you're interested in some background information about this, here's some good starters on SARS and MERS:

And here's some good information about how we find the origins of novel human viruses as well as past examples of it:

#science #science news #bad headlines in science #media #media bias #politics #us politics #covid lab leak #lab leak #covid #covid 19

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gingerswagfreckles · 2 years

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If you want evidence of how the left is just as susceptible to conspiracy theories as the right, just look at how quickly everyone gobbled up the idea that the Just Stop Oil group was secretly paid by oil execs to attack that Van Gogh painting. It's pretty obviously a baseless claim with nothing to support it, but no one really bothered to fact check it since it fits into a preconceived notion of how the world works.

When people say you are not immune to propaganda, they really do mean you. We as a group have to get much better about verifying that the information we are sharing is accurate, maybe especially when it goes against the mainstream narrative we are conditioned to distrust. Doing your own research really does mean doing your own research- and sometimes, if you catch yourself asking "why is no one talking about this," you have to at least consider the possibility that no one is talking about it because it simply isn't true.

#gingerswagfreckles #just stop oil #conspiracy theories #environmental justice #sorry if this sounds preachy. im obviously also not immune to propaganda #but its getting pretty frustrating to see how easily people accept pretty wild claims without fact checking #like....u dont think that if just stop oil was funded by oil execs that information would be on the news??#like yes the media has a serious centrist bias but this isnt something they wouldnt be interested in breaking to the public lol?#like if ur distrust of the media is that bad. ur already much closer to qanon than u realize and ur in trouble #its like when ppl on here were reblogging a pic of trumps parents in KKK outfits. like u really think that if this was real #it would have been a tumblr user who dug ut up. and not an NY times journalist or something #u think this wouldnt literally be headline news #its. frustrating

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voleuxe · 1 year

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fixing tags (in theory) dwbi

#( passion pride & protection / hc. )#( destined & designed to be dangerous / study. )#( curled hair curled lashes curled fists / aes. )#( la fille vulpes / fc. )#( entre loup et chat sauvage / lookalike. )#( never cut what you can untie / ism. )#( never kill what you can kiss / ships. )#( play to win / skill. )#( dress to kill / wardrobe. )#( the world or nothing / wishlist. )#( one of everything / meme. )#( unarmed / ooc. )#( detained / queue. )#( burn after reading / tbd. )#( headline in the making / psa. )#( unprofessional bias / promo. )#she keeps. vaguely poking me #and i have seen some modern/criminal ocs floating around and it's making me make eyes #im still thinking about archiving tho idk

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whats-in-a-sentence · 3 months

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"Exterminating the Natives in Australia" war the headline in London's Weekly Review. "Australian Vengeance " in the Bradford Daily Telegraph. The Nation in Dublin took a broader view under the headline "Colonial Humanity and Civilisation":

When a man because his skin happens to be black can with impunity be shot dead with a rifle for an offence punished with a few weeks' imprisonment, when committed by a European, civilization has evidently sunk to a very low degree in the individual guilty of such a deed. But when armed men in the Government employee surround and shoot down scores of unarmed and defenceless wretches, for the pettiest of larcenies, the crime becomes national and affects the character of the entire population.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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themfp1 · 4 months

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Year End Journalism Mayhem Recognition: The Townhall Heckler Awards – Media Industry Division

By: Brad Slager As we flip the calendar, it is customary to look back at the prior year before wadding it up and properly tossing it into the non-recyclables bin (because there is so much we do not want circulating once again). Here at “Riffed From The Headlines,” it has been a year of compiling the worst and misbegotten in the media landscape – and, wow – has it been a truckload of…

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#Brad Slager #MEDIA BIAS #RIFFED FROM THE HEADLINES

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headlinehorizon · 7 months

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Yakima Mayor Sparks Controversy with 911 Call on 'Far Right' Signature Gatherers at Walmart

https://headlinehorizon.com/U.S./Digital%20Originals/721

A mayor in Washington faces backlash after reporting petitioners as 'far right' to emergency services. The incident stirs debate on free speech and political bias.

#headline horizon #news #latest news #Yakima Mayor #signature gatherers #political bias

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inovize · 1 year

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Behind the Headlines: Recognizing Bias in News

In today's fast-paced media landscape, news stories constantly capture our attention. From headlines on social media to television broadcasts, we are constantly bombarded about events happening worldwide.

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#News #Bias #Headlines #Fake News #Tech #Technology #Lifestyle

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mimiatmidnight · 1 year

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The paparazzi pics of K on the school run typically sell better after something dramatic happens. Not sure if that’s always the case though.

Inchresting. Cause isn't there supposed to be like a pap truce when it comes to the kids' school? I only ever see these car photos of her after a major news story, so . . .

#that could definitely be confirmation bias tho #cause i would only see those photos if other sussex accounts post them and i guess they would only post them if its related to h&m so #🤷🏻‍♀️#its not a huge conspiracy i just think its a funny thought #like she reads a headline at breakfast and says ''we need to do something. i need to get behind a wheel NOW!''#lmao

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writingwithfolklore · 27 days

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Writing Fictional News

Eee this is one of my biggest pet peeves in movies, games, stories, anything… As someone who reads and edits a lot of news articles for my job, I can tell soo instantly when fictional news articles or broadcasts were written by someone who has never written news before. I’m constantly saying, “hmm, they’d never publish that.”

So here’s what you gotta know about writing (fictional) news stories.

1. They’re to the point… but not like that

This is the biggest thing I see in fiction that has news in it. People tend to write headlines that have the worst, gory details. For example,

“Student Sadie Walker murdered by 50 stabbings last night.”

While dramatic (and informative), I don’t see this as a news headline. The same situation (Sorry Sadie) may actually be reported as,

“Young woman passed away after involvement in stabbing late last night.”

While news articles are to the point and informative, remember that they’re written for the general public. We often don’t get the super gory details (at least, not in the headline).

2. They have a pretty specific voice

While most journalism is meant to be free of bias, news is the most importantly objective. This tends to result in articles written in a more formal tone. They also follow a structure: the most specific details to the most general.

Imagine you’re writing a piece that you’re expecting the reader to drop out at any moment. The headline is the attention grabber so your first line has the most important details of the story, so that someone can read it and know the jist.

Following our example, the first paragraph might be,

“Last night in June County a young woman was found unconscious, having suffered severe injuries. The woman was identified as Sadie Walker, a 21-year-old student attending June County University nearby. According to police reports, Walker had been walking between campus and the student dorms around midnight when she was struck and stabbed 30-50 times in the chest and back. Walker was found by a peer returning home an estimated hour after the attack and taken straight to Red Mill General hospital, where she passed away shortly after. The perpetrator is still unknown at this time.”

Remember the 5 W’s and 1 H. Your first few lines should inform the reader of Who, What happened, Where did it happen, When did it happen, how it happened, and maybe why if you know—though since news is so timely, often the answer isn’t known right away.

3. Where the article is found in the news is telling

While a story like our example might make the front page of the paper (especially if nothing else is really going on in June County), only one story can make this top spot. Some papers are divided between the top and bottom of the page, known as “above the fold” and “below the fold”. It’s a bit more traditional format, but the ‘above the fold’ spot is the best one, because that’s the story people see when they’re passing by the newsstand, while ‘below the fold’ is another important story making the front page, but one would have to pick up the paper and unfold it to read it.

Not to mention all the stories found inside the paper. Consider how important your article is--not to your characters/plot, but to the general society your fictional newspaper is serving. Would your MC’s win at the local dog competition make the front page of big city news?

Any other news writers on here? What did I miss?

#creative writing #writing #writers #writing community #screenwriting #writing inspiration #filmmaking #books #film #writing advice #writing news #writing fictional news #news writing

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odinsblog · 2 months

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And you know that there are many journalists who are very concerned about the pressure that's being applied about the sensitivities of this conflict.

And let's just be very clear here. We have the Israeli government, has a lot of supporters in Congress, has a lot of supporters in the media, has a lot of supporters in activist groups on K Street. There is a, quote unquote, pro-Israel lobby which does apply pressure on media organizations.

If you've worked like I have, both in American media and British media, you've seen the emails from honestreporting .com, and Kamera. And some of these groups your listeners may never have heard of. But I'll tell you what, every newsroom has heard of these groups; “Why is your headline this,” and “Why is your reporter showing bias?”And, “Why do they tweet this?” In this recent case, it's Louisa Lovelock, who is a British journalist at the Washington Post. It's a fantastic Middle East correspondence. Covered Syria, covered Iraq, covered Gaza, covered a bunch of things.

It's so absurd, the dossier they've produced against her. One of the things they go after is she took part in student protests at university in England against tuition fees. And..? A) that's a bad thing? B) that means she can't cover Israel's bombing of Gaza? It's so absurd. The stuff that they pull with me. Of course, I've had stuff going back 20 or 30 years that they've thrown at me. And it's a real problem where people get intimidated into not saying, not speaking what they want to speak about.

And we live in a world where the right is obsessed about cancel culture and free speech when, let's be very clear, the greatest victims of, quote unquote, cancel culture in this country have always been Palestinian activists, both on campus, in the media, and in politics.

I mean, let's just be clear, we have a Congress filled with white supremacists. We have a guy, I think, Andy Ogles from Tennessee, this week who was caught on tape saying, “Kill them all.” Alright? None of these guys get any attention. No votes of censure. Who is the only member of Congress who's been censured since October the 7th? The one Palestinian woman.

So let's just be very clear who the victims of, quote unquote, cancel culture and suppression and intimidation are. It tends to be people who speak out on behalf of Palestinians. And that's the case with reporters who aren't even taking positions. They're just reporting what they're seeing, and what they're seeing of course, is not favorable to the Israeli narrative, because what they're seeing is mass starvation. What they're seeing are mass killings. What they're seeing are kids being pulled out from the rubble. And, of course, that doesn't help the Israeli narratives.

—Mehdi Hasan, on ‘cancel culture’ and how journalists and reporters are attacked for simply reporting the truth about Gaza 🇵🇸

#politics #mehdi hasan #gaza #rafah #israel #hasbara #aipac #cancel culture #all eyes on rafah #ethnic cleansing #genocide #war crimes #accountability culture #media bias #media influence

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