Exclusive: Media company recently signed lucrative deal with Saudi government-controlled MBC Group

Exclusive: Media company recently signed lucrative deal with Saudi government-controlled MBC Group

  • Syldon@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    We have to ban foreign nationals owning our media. They do not purchase media companies as business interests anymore; it is only ever about changing public opinion.

    • RealJoL@feddit.de
      4·
      1 year ago

      One small upcoming one is Popular Front, but they seem to have a stronger focus on conflict reporting and the subcultures associated with it. Seems to be a Vice News for Gen Z.

    • charlytune@mander.xyz
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m fairly sure the Guardian were accused of toning down human rights stories about one country (I think like Bahrain or Oman or Qatar maybe?) as they were running an advertising supplement for their tourism board. It was covered in Private Eye so I don’t know if the article will be available online. So if I’m remembering that correctly, the Guardian have got a bit of a cheek here.

      • Historical_General@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        They were also raided by uk intelligence after the snowden stuff, and are no longer independant. Never donate to them or even use the links - use the archive.is links .

        :)

    • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
      31·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, people complain about this (rightfully so) but it’s still worlds apart from the muzzled or murdered press in places like China and Russia.

      • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t disagree with you factually, but why bring this up? This is essentially the same as pointing out that women have it worse elsewhere in the world anytime we talk about patriarchy in the US.

        • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
          21·
          1 year ago

          Because there’s a ton of CCP and Kremlin propaganda on Lemmy and some people need to be reminded of the truth.

          • Durotar@lemmy.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            The truth is that Russia and China are not related to this post at all. If anything, you’re trying to downplay the issue, but it is slow degradation what allows these things to establish as something normal and acceptable.

    • Skyler@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      “It’s good that Saudi Arabia is causing our media to censor itself because we invaded Iraq.”

      If that’s not the point you’re conveying, then whatever point it is that you’re feebly TRYING to convey is falling flat on its face.

      • downpunxx@kbin.social
        0·
        1 year ago

        They are, after 600 thousand dead Iraqis to distract away from Saudi 911 terrorists, one is so much worse its on another plane of existence

      • cooljacob204@kbin.social
        0·
        1 year ago

        Every thread has an what about Iraq poster now. Even pretty unrelated ones like this.

        Fucking bots. Tired of these assholes using it at an excuse for continued injustices.

        • Jack@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          This whataboutism may not be saying that what the Saudis are doing is excusable, but instead pointing out the hypocrisy and saying that if you’re going to complain about the psychotic Saudi regime, you have to admit that the voters who elected Bush and then re-elected him after his invasion of Iraq, are vastly worse than the Saudis. It’s important to know if we are the baddies, especially if we are vastly worse and propping up the Saudis.

          I think it’s important to criticize and boycott the psychotic Saudi regime, but also to keep in perspective that there are worse people out there: people who are orders-of-magnitude worse.

          Iraqi deaths in the Iraq war in the 8 years from 2003 to 2011 = approximately 461 000 (PLOS Medicine 2013) to 655 000 (Lancet 2006 (PDF)).

          That’s currently even worse than the psychotic Russian invasion of Ukraine:

          I’m not sure about the Saudi/Kuwait/UAE/Egypt/Morocco/Jordan/Sudan/Senegal/Bahrain/Blackwater (supported by US/UK/France) coalition’s actions in the war in Yemen since 2015.

          Edit: I’m also not sure how many the Saudis have killed in the Iran-Saudi proxy wars, so maybe the Saudis do actually have more direct blood on their hands than the western powers in the last 50 years or so.