r/JewsOfConscience • u/countingc • Nov 10 '24

News The photographer who filmed the Israeli, Maccabi supporters attacking random people, the same footage that the media abused to paint the pro-Palestinians as the offenders, tweeted this

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u/No-Owl517 Anti-Zionist Nov 10 '24

Now when the truth came out, all the media will just ignore that news. 

If it'd really happened the way they were portraying it, they'd still be writing about it for a couple more days for sure. 

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u/oncothrow Hasidim Nov 10 '24

I would love a parity law. For however long the news deliberately ran with the false story, they have to run the retraction AND apology for equally as long and equally as prominently.

There are some arguments to be made that news organisations can't know what the truth is all thetime but this was blatant lies. And you know it's lies because they're going to backtrack now instead of doubling-down, out of fear of legal consequences.

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u/juflyingwild Anti-Zionist Nov 10 '24

That is how reperations for a defamation lawsuit usually work.

It's the same exposure or greater.

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u/Various_Ad_1759 Nov 10 '24

Unfortunately, we have seen this game played before. How many retractions did we see with the systematic rape story or the 40 beheaded babies. The initial vitriol due to these false stories cannot simply be undone. Wish it was the case,but I find myself becoming more and more cynical.

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u/Gen8Master Nov 10 '24

Thats how they have operated for decades. Mainstream journalism died a long time ago.

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u/Ok-Elephant8255 Nov 11 '24

They do massive damage with every falsity, even if they retract statements, the damage is done. There needs to be fines and consequences for obvious blunders like completely twisting video evidence. Even if they wanted to claim Maccabi fans were victims, to misrepresent footage is a lie and they need to have journalistic licenses revoked.