What goes through editor's heads on this shit?
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That they dont want to be fired by their genocide sympathizing bosses.
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Gotta love that passive language making autocracy sound mild.
Indeed, WTF. The Native Americans would view the US westward expansion like AP's headline about the shitstain Putin.
Europe and post soviet block Asia borders have also "shifted through centuries". Much of pre 2014 Ukrainian territory was gifted by Russia, some by "Poland", rather than colonized/invaded by Ukraine.
It's weird how borders can move around on their own without any action from anyone.
Edit: On a more serious note, where exactly does this type of bias come from? I don't think of the AP as a highly ideological organization but is there some top-down pressure to frame things in a certain way? Does it come from the outside? Or is it just the prejudices of individual journalists and editors at play?
It is a cherry picked headline. Here is another from the AP that gives a different story: "Middle East latest: Israel plans an extended occupation of Syrian buffer zone"
Even that is far too mild. The Syrian "buffer zone" is there to "protect" the Golan Heights, which was also originally pitched as a "buffer zone". Wonder what the long term plans are for this new "buffer zone", and which zone will buffer it next?
Why was the cherry there in the first place that it got picked? Stupid headline or article, even if its only one, needs to be called out on
Oh it's not stupid, it's an intentional effort to manufacture consent.
by who though? Which person at AP is doing this?
I saw this article posted a few days ago that I hope will answer it for you. It doesn't really matter who wrote the headline, imo.
Israel has several lobbying organizations that watch news organizations and lodge complaints with them if coverage isn't favorable. Check out the ex CNN employee who recently said they literally couldn't publish without Isreal's permission.
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The essential ingredients of our propaganda model, or set of news "filters," fall under the following headings: (I) the size, concentrated ownership, owner wealth, and profit orientation of the dominant mass-media firms; (~) advertising as the primary income source of the mass media; (3) the reliance of the media on information provided by government, business, and "experts" funded and approved by these primary sources and agents of power; (4) "flak" as a means of disciplining the media; and (5) "anticommunism" as a national religion and control mechanism. These elements interact with and reinforce one another. The raw material of news must pass through successive filters, leaving only the cleansed residue fit to print. They fix the premises of discourse and interpretation, and the definition of what is newsworthy in the first place, and they explain the basis and operations of what amount to propaganda campaigns.
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Israel doesn't actively do anything, they are to be referred to in the passive voice only. Russia is the one who invades, shoots and kills people. Bullets fly into the heads of Palestinians and Israeli borders move, no responsibility here.
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Disgusting, these media titans should be held accountable for manufacturing consent on genocide.
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Even the one on the left is still too soft on Putin.
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