• Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
    9·
    9 months ago

    yeah it is, it’s uncritically reporting what the administration is saying, justifying the war even, despite the fact that they obviously control the reins on this mad dog - they could cut off weapons at any time.

    The US strategy has not changed despite the headline, it has always been to let the atrocities play out

    • fukhueson@lemmy.world
      Banned from communityOP
      8·
      9 months ago

      I see no justifications of the war in the article. Sounds like the issue is that it doesn’t say the things you’d prefer?

      • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
        8·
        9 months ago

        The administration is saying the justifications, the stenographers of empire are the ones uncritically reporting them.

        Do you really need me to spell it out?

        Now, U.S. officials have dropped their calls for a ceasefire, arguing that circumstances have changed. “We do support Israel launching these incursions to degrade Hezbollah’s infrastructure so ultimately we can get a diplomatic resolution,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told a press briefing earlier this week. The course change reflects conflicting U.S. goals - containing the ever-growing Middle East conflict while also severely weakening Iran-backed Hezbollah.

        The new approach is both practical and risky.

        We love a practical warmonger 🤩🤩🤩

        • fukhueson@lemmy.world
          Banned from communityOP
          7·
          9 months ago

          The article is not justifying the war, and I won’t entertain unsourced speculation as though it is fact. It is not propaganda.

            • fukhueson@lemmy.world
              Banned from communityOP
              4·
              9 months ago

              Yea, like where I read it and it isn’t justifying the war.

              I’m bored now. Goodbye.

              Edit: reiterating goodbye.

              • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
                4·
                9 months ago

                So how does this new, different US strategy differ from what they’ve been doing this entire time? letting the atrocities play out has been their strategy, is it because they’ve officially given up on calling for a cease fire?

          • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
            5·
            9 months ago

            Would you know propaganda if it walked up and bit you?

            Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

            But, listen, let’s review the rules. Here’s how it works: the president makes decisions. He’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know—fiction.

            Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine

            • fukhueson@lemmy.world
              Banned from communityOP
              5·
              9 months ago

              I have absolutely no idea how this is relevant, but I think that the volume of discussion encompassing whether Reuters is presenting propaganda is worth no one’s time.