They are so obviously and transparently bullshitting us and the west is NOT CALLING THEM OUT ON THEIR BULLSHIT ffs, this is blood-boiling to say the least!

Is it really the media at this point or is just that anyone with power is owned

Regardless of the content of the article.

I want to remind people that the Middle East Eye is directly run by the Qatari Embassy in London:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/close-al-jazeera-saudi-arabia-issues-qatar-with-13-demands-to-end-blockade

When Saudi Arabia and the UAE blockaded Qatar, the Middle East Eye started hitting them 24/7.

Another thing suspicious is the absence of revenue.

Around the world, newspapers fund themselves in 3 different ways :

• Advertising
• Subscriptions
• Donations

The Middle East Eye has no advertising. It has no subscriptions. And they don't ask for donations.

I have never seen anything like this. How do they fund themselves...?!

Again, this is NOT an attack on the content. But people should simply know this is a state-run newspaper.

Yes yes, but what kind of framing is

the day Hamas and other groups broke out of their Gaza prison camp, spreading carnage, following 17 years of a brutal siege.

Sounds like an excuse to a terror attack with almost exclusively civilian targets. Why is it so hard for advocates of the Palestinian cause to condemn this attack??

Actual journalists won't say someone is a murderer even if there's a video of the person shooting a guy pulling out their ID and showing it to the camera and say "my name is ___ and I murdered this person".

When the person is charged then they will be termed "alleged murderer". Before there's charges they're termed something like "shooter" not murderer. Only once someone is convicted of the crime will they be called "murderer".

Genocide is a much greater crime than murder. It's not responsible journalism to make accusations like this. If a body like the ICJ convicted Israel's leadership on charges, or maybe id the country the media organization is based in made a declaration, then a journalist will start using the word genocide.

"Alternative media" have no journalistic standards and will say such things to lead their audiences to conclusions. If you're reading articles that are telling you how to think about a story, it's not actually journalism. Real journalism is about telling people what's happening, not telling people how they're supposed to think about, and definitely not about making accusations in an effort support activist causes.

Western media took two ongoing genocides. Committed by Israel and Russia. And swept both under the rug under a wave of contrarian bullshit

Who the fuck is "we" in this instance?

No one with a single functioning braincell heard "There are no unaffiliated civilians" and didn't know exactly what was coming.

And yet all of these media outlets will continue to be treated as reputable and honest by Westerners