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Iran says it has launched retaliatory strikes against two US military bases in Jordan after US forces hit rocket launchers on Iran's strategic Larak Island.

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[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Worse than a joke they are actively colluding... Remember the 24 \ 7 cable news coverage of desert storm with embedded reporters in the country that was being bombed? News is big business... Things like this generate big money. They don't want the money or the honesty ... They are capitulating.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are wholly owned now by people who already have money. Or who stand to make money while keeping people ignorant. But absolutely. Compare the coverage from 20 years ago to today. It's clear, the failure that is. And the coverage 20 years ago wasn't good. But at least they were out there embedded and Reporting something. Now they're all just sitting back home waiting to be told. Because the boss won't spend money to go out there and Report.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know if you're this old but I dearly miss the days of Walter Cronkite and the equal time doctrine.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 5 points 1 day ago

Only just. As a child of the seventies and eighties. He retired a bit before I became a teenager. The worst you'd generally have to worry about with him might be issues of framing and omission. And generally never intentionally or with malice. That's almost unimaginable today. Where its S. O. P.