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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    Good journalists will never make their own opinion on the matter known outside the comment/opinion/analysis pages.

    Not: Man eats a delicious red apple

    Not: Man eats a red apple and says it’s delicious.

    But: Man says he ate a red apple and claims it is delicious.

    Or in some cases: Footage appears to show many saying he ate a red apple and claiming it was delicious.

    If the journalist didn’t see it with their own eyes, they won’t state that it’s a fact.

    It’s annoying how intertwined opinion and journalism have become, but it isn’t a journalist’s job to do anything more than report on what they saw, read or heard.

    Unfortunately journalism has been in decline for so long now, that many people don’t know the difference between good and poor journalism. So when a good journalist simply reports on what someone said, they wrongly think the journalist is agreeing with them, instead of simply reporting on what they heard the person say.

    Good journalism isn’t someone shouting about how angry something makes them, even if you agree with them. Good journalism is the equivalent of a court stenographer or someone who subtitles movies for the deaf.

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      Why is man “claiming” the apple is delicious? Is he in the pocket of Big Apple, and it really isn’t delicious? Or is the report from Fox Apple and they’re trying to cast aspersions on the man and his “claims”?