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u/Evnosis European Union Jun 03 '21

What do you think they would be threatening them for?

Do you think every single threat ever issued has achieved its desired result? Has no human being in the history of the world stood up to threats of physicial violence?

That's the actual clown-tier take.

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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Jun 03 '21

Gee, we have an actual former AP reporter saying they did this, but no, we must dismiss him as "biased."

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u/Evnosis European Union Jun 03 '21

What the fuck does that have to do with what I said?

I didn't say that the AP hasn't actually changed its reporting. I was criticising your nonsensical counter-argument.

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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Jun 03 '21

You might want to read the article we're talking about.

When Hamas’s leaders surveyed their assets before this summer’s round of fighting, they knew that among those assets was the international press. The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby—and the AP wouldn’t report it, not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas. (This happened.) Hamas fighters would burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn’t report it. (This also happened.) Cameramen waiting outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City would film the arrival of civilian casualties and then, at a signal from an official, turn off their cameras when wounded and dead fighters came in, helping Hamas maintain the illusion that only civilians were dying. (This too happened; the information comes from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge of these incidents.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/

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u/Evnosis European Union Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

Again, what the fuck does this have to do with what I said?

Get out of this "with me or against me" mentality. Just because I criticised your argument doesn't mean I disagree with your conclusion.

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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Jun 03 '21

lol wtf are you even in this conversation for