• LibertyLizard
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    3 months ago

    I don’t really see that as the role of the media. The media should inform people about what’s happening, not editorialize to support some hypothetical future military action.

    Also, I mean, they are freedom fighters. That doesn’t mean I support them but they are violent radicals seeking the overthrow of the government. Freedom fighters is just how the media and governments refer to militants they want to make sound benign. You can argue that the Taliban were freedom fighters, as were the rebels in the US civil war. It’s kind of a nonsense term.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It should but it does not. The media demonizes the side that we want to kill and manufactures consent for you to do so. Then when you have been convinced that one side is good and the other one evil we can send in troops to coup the country and place a puppet regime.

      Khadaffi was a great example of us killing a dictator and then leaving a power vacuum that was far worse.

      If we actually cared about helping people not being killed we’d be stopping arms to israel by now.