I'd rather they just be respectful of my request, and now they are doing so. They have good things to contribute, I just don't want to be used as a vehicle for promoting a product.
@faab64@palestine Western media is always the same. It provides no objective reporting on Gaza, nor on Ukraine. And it never did so with any of the previous US inspired forever wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria etc).
@KarunaX@faab64 German (mainstream!) media is very often copy-pasting text unreflected and unquestioned. They often repeat but with gaps what other media is reporting. For example, there is no German (mainstream!) journalist in #Donbass region, only a few independent (they are not really independent but at least they don't work for mainstream media) journalists and some individual people but also they cannot say what happens in the defense ministries (of both sides). They can only report what they are being told by locals and military personnel.
@KarunaX
Back in the late 90s and early 2000, the guardian and the independent of UK used to print investigative reports on controversial subjects, specially when Robert Fisk was alive and healthy he wrote quiet a lot of articles about Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan with first hand knowledge of players in those events and tried to expose the hypocrisy of the politicians and the media about those events and region.
My wife wrote a book about the media coverage between September 11 attacks and invasion of Iraq many years ago "No Questions Asked by Lisa Finnegan" and she compared the European press coverage of the news and events of post 9/11 and the WMD lies and how the American media refused to ask questions and let Bush and his criminal gang to boldozer the world into invasion of Iraq and occupation of the country.
Sadly, she didn't get much attention because she could only find one publisher that printed her book and set the price ridiculously high and it was used only in academia. @palestine
@faab64@palestine Even in academia it is difficult to get attention to alternate narratives on Palestine. Sad her book was high priced, it would have been a valuable addition to media studies exposing what has happened to that social sector in the past few decades.