Where can I NEUTRALLY keep up to date about the Palestina/Israel situation?locked

adONis@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 204 points –

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

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.

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.