Killed if Ukrainian, Died if Palestinian

  • Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    These days it’s done in a way more subtle way than that because people can just discover those things via social media and if they see it as not being reported they suspect the newsmedia for not doing it.

    The manipulation (as exemplified above) is in the consistent use of language with different emotional charge and even the passive or active mode depending on the side (i.e. “the terrorists of Hamas killed x people” when the Hamas does the deed versus “x people died when a building was hit” when the IDF does the deed, this latter being very visibly in the example given here) as well as different levels of implied trust for each side (for example, consistently reporting “such has happenned” when the source is the IDF whilst reporting “the spokesperson of X said that such has happenned” when the source is Hamas).

    If you’re paying attention you will see this shit all over whenever a Newspaper or News Channel is activelly engaged in “opinion forming” as they use the very same differentiated treatment for controlling emotional impact techniques for just about everything, including local politics.