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‘Our coverage is not truthful’: How Israel is censoring reporting on the war (www.972mag.com)
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“It’s hard to understand what is actually happening,” a senior manager at a foreign media outlet working in Israel explained. “In a lot of cases, we have official reports that there were no strikes or damage only to discover later that a target was hit. We can’t report or confirm so we don’t know if it happened or not.

“We have a partial understanding of the reality on the ground,” the senior manager admitted. “Our coverage of the war is not truthful.”

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[–] 18 points 7 months ago

This comes as a shock to absolutely no one.

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    [–] -1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Reporters and networks are prohibited from publishing the precise location of Iranian missile impacts, or even filming or photographing the extent of the damage in a way that could give away the location — restrictions designed, in the words of the army’s chief censor Col. Netanel Kula, “to prevent assistance to the enemy during wartime.”

    The restrictions sound completely reasonable. This reminds me of how we would laugh when Russian soldiers uploaded detailed depictions of the damage done by Ukrainian attacks, because they were being so foolish.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I feel like the question is about balance though, yes they should censor and obfuscate geographic, but is this being used a shield to prevent any reporting, or is this actually being used for safety?

    It seems like the article is implying it is being applied to silence, not protect.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I agree. Consider this situation:

    "In one case known to +972 Magazine, an Iranian missile hit its target while fragments struck a nearby educational facility. Yet the media was only allowed to report on the latter, without being able to even mention the former or inspect the damage."

    This results in inaccurate reporting. The facts are distorted to make it seem that a school was the intended target, when in fact it was not.

    IMO, the balance is lost to censorship.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    That is important evidence.

    I'd rule that you can report on obvious-actuality, all you want, so long as you aren't pushing DarkTetrad agendas ( narcissism / machiavellianism / sociopathy-psychopathy / sadism ),

    & that hiding that a particular building which everybody there can see was hit, is in the unacceptable machiavellianism-deforming-accuracy category.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    It's being taken to an extreme though. These impacts can likely be seen via satellite akin to the impacts on US bases. And I assume the Russians and Chinese are supporting them with said intel

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    You would think in this day and age there would be a way to get the truth out.

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