I always find it funny how hung up the media class has been on Keshoggi. Its a fairly intense bit of class solidarity I suppose. Like in terms of pointless and evil acts of the Saudi Arabia state it doesn't even rank but its seemingly the only thing journalists remember

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 52 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile all those dead Yemenis don't even warrant a mention, especially since it might have poeple asking why we were over there helping kill them in the first place

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I saw a single decent report on Yemen and it was on pbs in like 2014 or 2015 maybe. It showed how the Saudis are bombing the shit out of them with ordinance made in the USA and all the starving children dying because of the blockade on any asstancd getting to them.

I haven't seen any comparable coverage since.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

The war in Yemen had very little coverage in the West. People are talking about all the drones being used in Ukraine, but they'd been using drones with similar devastating effecet in Yemen - the main difference being they tended to target people rather than tanks.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

See, Yemen is a bad place where bad things are allowed to happen. By Western logic stuff only becomes real if it enters our imaginary bubble of perpetual safety. That's also why 9/11 and the Ukraine invasion got such a big reaction.

To be clear, the bubble is not real, it can all happen here.

[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it's just very memorable and visceral how it was carried out

[–] TimLovesTech@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Probably because in a free from authoritarian government the free press is supposed to be the ultimate checks and balances on personal liberty. When you can't even write something negative about a leader without being dismembered in a hotel and disposed of in duffle bags like trash, that should be ringing alarms for anyone that isn't licking boots.

[–] hessianerd@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Wasn't he investigating payments from MBS to Jared Kushner?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

free press is supposed to be the ultimate checks and balances on personal liberty.

So what does it mean when "free" press is all just owned by rich chucklefucks who have a vested interest in making things as unfree for the working class as possible?

[–] TimLovesTech@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

It means that the alarm bells went off and people paid more attention to capitalism, and voting in people that actively worked against them, because those elected officials treated people they disliked even worse. Then we got a wanna be dictator that went full "journalists are an enemy of the state" because they say mean (TRUE) things about him. Journalists now choose between being able to eat, or sounding the alarm that costs them a job (and falls on deaf ears).

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works -4 points 11 months ago

Journalists are extremely protective of their own, they really like to believe they are a separate class above the regular people. They go as far as releasing press freedom indexes that include feelings, and penalize not granting them additional rights.