#reporting

faab64@diasp.org

#FARI: “When you have a protocol that routes all stories through one checkpoint, you’re interested in control, and the question is who is controlling the story?” Jim Naureckas, editor of the watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, told The Intercept.

#CNN’s team in #Jerusalem are the “people closest to the Israeli government,” Naureckas added. “In a situation where a government has been credibly accused of singling out journalists for violent attacks in order to suppress information, to give that government a heightened role in deciding what is news and what isn’t news is really disturbing.”

#Media #Reporting #Censorship #Israel #Politics #Propaganda
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn-israel-gaza-idf-reporting/

aljazeera@squeet.me

Journalists killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Three Palestinian journalists have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip while reporting on the third night of Israeli bombardment of the be...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #Israeli #Journalists #Strip #air #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #besieged #bombardment #enclave #killed #latestnews #newsheadlines #night #reporting #strike #third
Journalists killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

jirikiha@diasp.org

A few surprises here, for me anyway. Would have pegged the Rogan show as more right-wing, but I also realize I don't really have much first-hand knowledge about it, so defer to the experts.
The Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart has grown more comprehensive over the years. Note how they differentiate between FOX News (web) and Fox Business (web), giving them very different scores.
I'm noticing that the AP, BBC, Reuters, and Pew Research Center have consistently high-quality fact reporting without overt bias. Even if I agree with the sentiment, highly biased articles are a turn-off, bringing only disappointment when their vision doesn't match reality.

I prefer reality!

Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart
#Bias #Journalism #Reporting

bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com

Paul's a friend and so this might be a high dose of confirmation bias, but I feel the same way he does. Aviation accident reports draw a lot of clicks (especially this summer's spate of high-profile midair collisions), but the accident rate in general aviation is now so low that it's easy to overestimate the real risk (a 0.88/100,000 per hour chance of being in a fatal accident while flying GA).

https://s30121.pcdn.co/insider/is-accident-reporting-making-us-all-crazy/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-accident-reporting-making-us-all-crazy

#aviation #accidents #reporting #media

steelnomad@diasp.org

If you live in/near Washington #DC, try to make it to this protest on March 2

CNN: Cover Yemen! - DC Action

From #Codepink:

We will be rallying outside of #CNN for the National Day of #Action for #Yemen to demand that CNN tell the full story on Yemen! We will also be asking people to take action and demand that Congress pass a new War Powers Resolution for Yemen. The action will feature accurate coverage of the #war on Yemen.

#journalism #truth #news #media #reporting #antiwar #WashingtonDC

mme_de_faune@nerdpol.ch

AnonLeaks - a body with a questionmark as a head

In Kriegen ist immer das erste Opfer die #Wahrheit, danach kommen gleich die Einschränkungen in der #Berichterstattung über das #Internet … wir wollen helfen
[...] Drop ist seit heute mit einer gesonderten Kategorie “Ukraine War” ausgestattet. Diese Kategorie behandelt die Reports anders in dem Sinne, als dass sie einem anderen Empfängerkreis zugänglich gemacht und zugeordnet werden. Wir wollen nicht als Mittler fungieren, die gesonderte Behandlung der Kategorie ermöglicht es uns, #Journalisten Zugang zu gewähren. [...]

https://anonleaks.net/2022/anon-services/krieg-in-der-ukraine-bleibt-in-verbindung/

In wars, the first casualty is always the #truth, followed immediately by restrictions on #reporting via the Internet … we try to help
[...] As of today, Drop has a separate “Ukraine War” category. This category treats reports differently in the sense that they are made available and attributed to a different set of recipients. We do not want to act as a middleman, the separate treatment of the category allows us to grant access to journalists. #Journalists will then see only the reports uploaded for “Ukraine War” in the context of #Ukraine, but not those intended for us. [...]

https://anonleaks.net/en/2022/anon-service/war-in-ukraine---stay-in-touch/

#Russland #Russia #AnonLeaks #Service

florida_ted@diasp.org

Florida has been under-reporting COVID-19 cases and deaths

DeSantis and his administration have been covering up and hiding information about the pandemic from the Florida public in so many instances and for so long that, honestly, it’s difficult to summarize.

#Florida #governor #DeSantis #history #cover-ups #secrecy #scandals #pandemic #reporting #COVID-19

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/florida-media-coverage-shows-why-desantis-should-not-be-covid-19-role-model

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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com

COVID-19: India's new daily case counts decline attributed to insufficient testing (Al Jazeera)

“Please note that a huge fall in daily cases … is largely due to a heavy fall in testing,” Rijo M John, a professor and health economist at the Indian Institute of Management in the southern state of Kerala, said on Twitter.

“This should not be taken as an indication of falling cases, rather a matter of missing out on too many positive cases!”

(27 Apr 2021)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/27/india-nears-200000-covid-deaths-army-steps-in

I'd suggested a possible inflection point / actual decline a couple of days ago, though cautioned other explanations might also be responsible. My first caution then seems to be accurate:

India’s case rise has been so large and fast that it may simply be that detection capabilities are limiting new counts, whether by overwhelmed hospitals, labs, transport, or other means.

New daily case counts remain below trend, though at this point, faith in the numbers is low. Until we see deaths data, both attributed to Covid (lagging by 2-3 weeks) and total excess mortality (lagging by 3--6 months), what's happening right now will remain unclear at best.

Again, the take-away is that interpreting reported statistics is an art, and apparent trends are often attributes of the data collection and reporting process rather than the underlying phenomena.

Looking through other country's data earlier today, I noted that Egypt's new daily cases plot shows an unusually low amount of variability and noise. Given that the cases being reported are relatively few (presently just hitting 1,000/day), this leads me to suspect data adjustments. The best case would be that reported data are smoothed. Worst would be that they're simply being fabricated. Either way, this is another case of numbers which don't inspire much faith.

#covid19 #india #reporting #corrections #egypt