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Why does the Voice of America refer to "militants" and not "terrorists" when talking about armed Palestinian groups, apparently with no backlash?
In realpolitik, dictionary meanings are unimportant. The label "terrorist" is more often applied to a most-disliked enemy, rather than to one who use terror tactics the most.
The key enemy ...
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Why are statements from the "Gaza Health Ministry" taken without a grain of salt?
First of all, I think "taken without a grain of salt" is exaggerating the confidence with which those numbers are reported. Usually, reliable media seems to point out that the numbers have ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
The simplest answer stems from the obvious point that:
Conservatives tend to like things the way they are, or at least the way they were — the status quo as they see it — and don't want much in the ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
Objective Truth
Academia is all about the getting closer to objective truth. The peer review process, where other academics look through your work and offer critical appraisals, is about the most ...
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Why are statements from the "Gaza Health Ministry" taken without a grain of salt?
While Hamas may or may not be exaggerating, news agencies like the BBC and organizations like the UN also report on casualties affecting their personnel and affiliates, as well as those people's ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
Most of the groups you described are more educated. This includes Ivy League professors, professionals working in influential media and in fact-check websites, as well as highly educated politicians ...
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Why are most US news programs silent about Iran-Saudi deal announced at Beijing on March 10th?
I think this gets a bit more oversold in China, relative to the US, that's why you're so surprised. Coverage does exist, at least in [digital] "print", sometimes actually quite laudatory of ...
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Why are most US news programs silent about Iran-Saudi deal announced at Beijing on March 10th?
In addition to my comments that suggest part of this is American News Media has a historically poor record for covering international stories unless it is a tragedy OR involves U.S. interests in some ...
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Why does the Voice of America refer to "militants" and not "terrorists" when talking about armed Palestinian groups, apparently with no backlash?
I think the odd one here is actually the BBC (or actually the UK government) and not VOA. Both the US and the UK have very high standards of freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Both the ...
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What position exactly did Merkel express about the Minsk agreements in this December 2022 interview?
1. The translation is an accurate representation of what Merkel said in the interview.
The original text is:
Die 2008 diskutierte Einleitung eines Nato-Beitritts der Ukraine und Georgiens hielt ich ...
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To what extent (if any) does Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi answer reporters' questions, or at least appear to?
“It is not necessary for the prime minister to answer every question of yours,” declared BJP president Amit Shah who sat next to Modi at the event. - Narendra Modi appeared at his first press briefing ...
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Why does the Voice of America refer to "militants" and not "terrorists" when talking about armed Palestinian groups, apparently with no backlash?
The answer to the second part of the question "why is it apparently not getting the same level of flak as the BBC?" is not fully answered without acknowledging the vastly different roles the ...
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Has Fox news, or any of the major personalities on it, addressed the revelations from the Dominion trial?
As far as I can tell, the only statements issued by the network with regard to the most recent revelations have been to ABC News:
There will be a lot of noise and confusion generated by Dominion and ...
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Why does the Voice of America refer to "militants" and not "terrorists" when talking about armed Palestinian groups, apparently with no backlash?
Maybe VOA refers to the group as militant because, technically speaking, the militant affiliate has not been itself designated by the US State Department as terrorist as of now. Only the Al Aqsa ...
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Why won't countries ban media companies that leak their own intelligence?
The obvious answer, in most Western countries the press has rather strong constitutional protections, which balance such things as the Official Secrets Act in the UK. Most provisions of the official ...
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Why are statements from the "Gaza Health Ministry" taken without a grain of salt?
Why news media report the numbers
The Washington Post has an article explaining why they - and others - rely on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health numbers[*].
Their main points are:
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Why are most US news programs silent about Iran-Saudi deal announced at Beijing on March 10th?
It seems that CNN finds movies more important than Chinese foreign policy. Look what they talk about:
SVB,
Ukraine,
Oscars,
the Jan 6th riots,
and, somewhere in the depth of the site, Iran-Saudi-...
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What position exactly did Merkel express about the Minsk agreements in this December 2022 interview?
The quote is taken ouf of context, and the wording has been subtly changed.
According to xyldike's answer, the original wording was:
Die 2008 diskutierte Einleitung eines Nato-Beitritts der Ukraine ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
The charts in Timur Shtatland's answer show a definite correlation between education and liberalism.
Notice that groups with strong conservative values remain relatively unchanged until they decline ...
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Why did the leftists usually win in the media front and education system?
A paper by Duarte et al. (2014) claims that: (emphasis mine)
Academic psychology once had considerable political diversity, but has lost nearly all of it in the last 50 years; 2) This lack of ...
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How easy is it to receive a radio signal in Mandarin from BBC and VoA in Beijing?
Impossible because
VOA Mandarin airwave transmission ended in 2011 (story).
BBC Chinese Service was shut down in 2011 (story).
Anyway, very few use radio signals nowadays. Nowadays, any "radio&...
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Why are most US news programs silent about Iran-Saudi deal announced at Beijing on March 10th?
Your premise is flawed.
Cable news is not the be-all and end-all of western news.
This has been receiving enough exposure to be a top news item in Google News continually since the moment it dropped. ...
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Is access to Russian open sources blocked from the West?
Which sites are blocked? Here are the screenshots of the top Russian sites that are available as of today (TASS, RIA Novosti and Moskovkiy Komsomolets). I also can read these and other Russian news on ...
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Why is it assumed that UN votes are always based on Realpolitik rather than genuine convictions of the country in question?
I think the phenomenon you are describing can be largely explained via two observations:
It is "well-known" that people (natural persons or otherwise) sometimes act in bad faith. Almost ...
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Why Global North countries collectively hate Russia?
The European Union has published a FAQ about their sanctions, which writes:
Since March 2014, the EU has progressively imposed restrictive measures on Russia in response to:
the illegal annexation ...
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What is Antisemitism?
Like most words, "Semitic" is a word that has more than one sense. One sense of the word is broader and means speakers of the Semitic languages, which includes both Arabic and Hebrew (which ...
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What are the political reasons behind the Western media highlighting the HIMARS vehicles over the MLRS vehicles that Ukraine has recently received?
Ukraine will not tell which launcher has been used, this is a military secret. Russia maybe would but they only see the rocket. Hence there is not much information available for the press about the ...
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Apart from censorship, how does the Chinese government control the media?
As an ordinary Chinese who was born, grew up, educated, and worked in China, I think the state of free speech in China is far worse than one who is living in a world with freedom of expression could ...
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What is the practical implication of condemnations?
virtue signaling. – Fizz
If you wanted to boil an answer to this question into two words, Fizz nailed it.
In a more expansive manner, public declarations are a highly complex social event. Depending ...
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Why does the Voice of America refer to "militants" and not "terrorists" when talking about armed Palestinian groups, apparently with no backlash?
This is not an exhaustive search I've done, but VoA appears to "forget" to mention that Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade is a designated terrorist organization in some other stories that mention the ...
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