• AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    Seems ok to me. They need to distinguish between the opposing governments, and they’re reporting what the Houthis have said because they don’t have confirmation from trusted sources.

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      6 days ago

      They could simply say houthis government’s prime minister was assasinated by israel

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        6 days ago

        They don’t know it. They’d have egg on their face if it turned out he wasn’t dead or died some other way.

        The choice to include that it was an airstrike instead of a gunshot, blade, poison, or a hand grenade is an editorial choice. It certainly answers one of the first questions which would form in the reader’s mind.

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          6 days ago

          My problem is x-backed. You never see that when refering to isrsel which is a proxy for american imperliasm