Looking at the two big news publishers in my country. One isn’t reporting about the current bombings at all, while the other one is phrasing their words mostly anti-Palestinian.

Is there some neutral coverage I can keep up to? Where do you guys get your info from?

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      The funny thing is how people on both sides could read your comment and agree with it, but for opposite reasons.

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        How is it funny? This is true of every war that has ever happened. There is no such thing as unbiased reporting of real time events. Its just the truth.

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          There is no such thing as unbiased reporting of ANY events. Real time or historical. All reporting is biased.

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            While technically true, this attitude is desperately self-defeating. It is possible to look for the truth, and to get more or less close to it. This principle is the founding ethic of journalism, for instance. A world in which nobody believes in truth is a world of mass manipulation, of nihilism, most likely of totalitarianism.

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              A world in which nobody believes in truth is a world of mass manipulation

              “Communication” is a form of manipulation. Your comment - and mine - are attempts at conveying thoughts to foreign minds. The best word for “mass manipulation” is “society”.

              It is possible to look for the truth,

              I reject the idea that such a truth objectively exists anywhere but within the realm of mathematics. Everywhere else, it is subject to the philosophical ideologies of the seeker: it is fundamentally and intrinsically biased.

              This principle is the founding ethic of journalism,

              Journalism is a systematic communication of thoughts, and as such, it is itself a form of mass manipulation, no matter how benign the intentions of the journalist.

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      I think it is fair to say that every political entity involved has regularly walked away from peace talks. That every political power involved is regularly choosing violence over peace.

      Short of glassing the whole region, the violence is only going to continue.

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    Honestly don’t think you can find any neutral news about it. I recommend use multiple news places to get the overall view (that’s what I do).

    I feel like every news-publisher is leaning to one or the other.

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      https://ground.news/interest/israeli-palestinian-conflict

      This site collects news from multiple sources, tells you their political affiliation, shows the difference in summary based on left / center / right news sources, and optionally shows a lot more like ownership network etc if you pay for it.

      Nothing will be neutral, but I like it to get an overview.

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    Stick with reputable news sites. Reuters is my gold standard. Along with AP News. They tend to be some of the least bias sources out there and do their due diligence when it comes to reporting.

    It’s worth noting that a lot of the news coverage may come across as pro-isreal and anti-palestinian but that’s because a lot of the news is “Isreal claims this” and “An IDF statement that” the sources themselves are biased.

    Also keep in mind that this is an active war. There will be a lot of wrong information as media reports the best information available, it’s not the media having a bias, it’s just the fog of war as things rapidly develop.

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      but that’s because a lot of the news is “Isreal claims this” and “An IDF statement that” the sources themselves are biased

      It’s also important to keep in mind that when you read “Gaza health ministry claims”, in reality it’s the same as “Hamas’ health ministry claims” since Hamas has been ruling that area since 2006 and tortured the Palestinian opposition ever since (https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/05/gaza-palestinians-tortured-summarily-killed-by-hamas-forces-during-2014-conflict/ ). Same thing with claims by Al Jazeera since Qatar hosts Hamas’ leadership and funds their lavish lifestyles there so it wouldn’t be right for them to suggest in their own newspaper that they’re hosting terrorists, thus their news will rarely be critical of Hamas.

      What’s the solution? There are a few choices you could make. You could cherrypick pro-Palestinian sources like Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye or Electronic Intifada and automatically dismiss whatever Israel says as disinformation and it could make you feel good about yourself as it’s very easy to oversimplify the conflict as just one big high-tech state abusing poor people fighting back with stones. You could also do the same cherrypicking for a pro-Israel position. Or you could dismiss any pro-Palestinian or pro-Israel source and only listen to news sources that provide a “balanced” account of the events (Associated Press is indeed very good). Or, much better but will require more thinking on your part: you read all of them and you dismiss none of them.

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        Ugh. That link is horrible. I mean the descriptions behind it.

        It looks like non-Hamas Palestinians have two enemies working against them.

        Makes me wonder what exactly a Pro-Palestinian position is.

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          A pro-Palestinian position is (for now) anti-Hamas and pro-Abbas, supports the removal from Hamas from power, supports Israeli action against Hamas, but decries the limitations of aid or the blockades from Egypt/Jordan/etc against even short-term refugees.

          Palestine would currently be a country, for the first time in human history, if Hamas did not exist.

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            Palestine would currently be a country, for the first time in human history, if Hamas did not exist.

            Can you expand on this?

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              A 2 state solution was offered multiple times and was denied because Palestinian leadership had a hard line of Israel not existing.

              When a 2 state solution became politically viable in Palestinian territory, Hamas seized power and refused further elections

              Just because I don’t know if you want clarity on the whole thing, Palestine as never been a country. It was part of Jordan and Egypt before being lost in the 6 Day War, and part of a chain of empires before that. There was no unified Palestinian identity prior to 1967.

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                To my knowledge the closest state to the 2 state solution was an offer to Arafat after the Camp David negotiations. He didn’t take the offer, but I don’t know why. But that was in 2000, before Hamas seized power in 2005. That was why I asked.

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                  Abbas moving toward the 2 state solution was what led to the Hamas takeover, and violent skirmishes between the PA and Hamas. Specifically their issues were the more secular state the PA favors and that they don’t believe Israel should exist

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        After Amnesty’s report on Ukraine when russia invaded it, many people no longer consider it a credible source.

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          Amnesty is not a neutral source. They are always biased toward minimizing casualties regardless of political outcome.

          Once you know that, and that they aren’t news so much as they cite news, it’s readable.

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            “Minimize casualties” is a short-sighted, pointless cop-out that is only beneficial to the aggressor. Very much similar to “Stop fighting”.

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              Yeah definitely. But, they’re a charitable organization focused solely on that and not on political outcomes so I give them some leeway. It’s not like they hide their intent.

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      I’m aware of that, and some of the current claims are probably subject to change in the future. I just browsed through reuters, and they seem unbiased. While my local news refers to hamas as “radical islamic terror organisation Hamas”, reuters just uses “hamas”.

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        Good journalists will never make their own opinion on the matter known outside the comment/opinion/analysis pages.

        Not: Man eats a delicious red apple

        Not: Man eats a red apple and says it’s delicious.

        But: Man says he ate a red apple and claims it is delicious.

        Or in some cases: Footage appears to show many saying he ate a red apple and claiming it was delicious.

        If the journalist didn’t see it with their own eyes, they won’t state that it’s a fact.

        It’s annoying how intertwined opinion and journalism have become, but it isn’t a journalist’s job to do anything more than report on what they saw, read or heard.

        Unfortunately journalism has been in decline for so long now, that many people don’t know the difference between good and poor journalism. So when a good journalist simply reports on what someone said, they wrongly think the journalist is agreeing with them, instead of simply reporting on what they heard the person say.

        Good journalism isn’t someone shouting about how angry something makes them, even if you agree with them. Good journalism is the equivalent of a court stenographer or someone who subtitles movies for the deaf.

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          Why is man “claiming” the apple is delicious? Is he in the pocket of Big Apple, and it really isn’t delicious? Or is the report from Fox Apple and they’re trying to cast aspersions on the man and his “claims”?

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        Right. It’s all about media literacy. Once you start picking up on loaded language like “Radical Islamic terror organisation Hamas” it starts becoming pretty evident what the biases are. That’s not to say the news they are reporting is false, just that it is going to take some extra work on your part to filter out all of the bullshit. Like you mentioned, the Common name of the government of Gaza is “Hamas” calling it anything else is an attempt to appeal to emotion to prime you to think about it a certain way. Like calling the Israeli government “zionists” it’s ment to sway to to something, not give you news.

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          Exactly, that’s what I’m talking about.

          Obviously, with the fact that the Palestinians have been opressed for decades, which led for organisations like the Hamas to arrise, there’s no good guys / bad guys in this situation.

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          Hamas is the government in Gaza because they seized power and do not allow elections.

          Calling them a radical terrorist organization is both accurate and removes the citizens of Gaza from responsibility for the actions of Hamas.

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          Regarding media literacy, the number one book I can recommend anyone wishing improve theirs is " The News" by Alain de Botton.

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        radical islamic terror organisation Hamas

        This is an accurate, unbiased description of Hamas. They are exactly that, the same way ISIL/ISIS is.

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          While this might be true, it’s all about the context. They make it seem like the Israelis are targeting the “bad guys” and should be allowed to do so. But they don’t mention the unrightful suffering and death of Palestinian civilians at all.

          You now what I mean? If they call the Hamas a radical islamic terror organization (which I’m fine with), why don’t they also call the Israelis a radical zionist terror organization?

          What I want to read is, if the Hamas fucked up, then let me know about it, also, if the Israelis fucked up, I want to know about that too.

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            radical zionist terror organization

            Because they aren’t that.

            There is no country on the planet that would not respond military to a thousand civilians being murdered via state-sponsored terrorism.

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              But haven’t they oppressed the Palestinians for the past decades. Didn’t they evidently commit crimes that fall under the umbrella of “terror”?

              At some point, it’s unavoidable for organisations to arise, that don’t play by the rules anymore.

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                Didn’t they evidently commit crimes that fall under the umbrella of “terror”?

                No. Words have actual meanings.

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    Part of critical reading is collecting more sources, not less. You’ll have to read differing opinions and make up your own mind

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    That’s the neat part - you don’t.

    The idea that there could be a truly neutral source is not really realistic, human minds do not work that way and there are many other reasons why it’s even harder than that.

    As long as you stay away from the blatant extremes, partisans, people with some other stake in the game, etc., all you can do is evaluate relative bias, and try to adjust for it. It is inevitable that your take isn’t going to be unbiased, either, but this way you’ll have had a decent shot at minimizing wrongness.

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    Nowhere. There is no such a thing as a neutral report. You need to be able to think for yourself and identify possible biases in an author

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    There is nowhere you can get unbiased news. You have to analyze the bias and think critically about it if you want to really understand what’s happening.

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      BBC is often well regarded but not for this issue, they definitely have a pro Isreal spin to their coverage.

      And yet they find themselves being accused of “blood libel” by the government of Israel.

      I’m with OP, I don’t know where to find facts that I can be assured are being related without (conscious) bias.

      I just wish people of either side and outside could stop being shitty to each other for five goddam minutes.

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      Modern conflict in Asia/Middle East, (…) is largely upheld by western activity

      That’s a funny way to spell Iran

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        Iran is a big one, but Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, they’ve all suffered western destabilization efforts. They aren’t in the news as much, so most people don’t even know about it, but that’s exactly my point.

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              Iran funds an insurgency, Saudi intervenes, and it’s all the fault of the West. I see.

              Do you believe there are significant conflicts in the world that aren’t a result of Western plotting? How guilty do you consider the West of the civil war in Myanmar, for example?

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                  What you said was that modern conflicts are upheld by Western activity. I’m trying to illustrate that you will usually have to dismiss the proximate causes, and sometimes construe very stilted and tenuous explanations, to make that statement fit reality.

                  America is very powerful and has a presence over much of the world. In virtue of this power, their involvement, or lack of involvement, is always an important factor in conflicts. This does not mean that they cause those conflicts.

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    AP News is ‘supposed’ to give unbiased news…they’re ok given how highly topical it is.

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    The most neutral coverage I’ve seen was from The Intercept.

    It has a fairly anti-establishment bias, but that includes both Hamas, the PA, and the IDF.

    They basically give a crap about civilians, but not about any of the institutional interests causing them to suffer, and spread that evenly across the various players.

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    I think BBC is pretty neutral, considering each side is accusing them of being biased towards the other.

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      BBC historically have shown bias based on what they do and don’t report on, however what they do report on is generally a gold standard for neutrality

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      The BBC literally had to apologise a week ago for parroting Hamas propaganda about the missile hitting the hospital.

      They then had the audacity to lecture people on how to avoid “misinformation”.

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    Bad guys vs villains is never neutral. The winner writes the history and call themselves the justice. That’s how conflict works

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    I haven’t found any, let me know if you do!

    I just try to find all the information I can from all sources of all types, and then stress about my complete inability to be sure what is even true, considering how much of it is contradictory. The only thing I’m certain I learned is that neither side of this wants to tell the truth all the time, and new news will often change over the course of a week or so as people get caught in lies.