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      Not sure what the private media/journalism ownership is here, one of the many things I keep meaning to inform myself about. Obviously the BBC is meant to be an independent, unbiased source of information. In Canada the CBC fulfills the same niche. Neither are safe from outside pressure, or lazy reporting.
      The vast majority of private journalism media in Canada is owned by Canadian media holding conglomerate Postmedia(bit too on the nose if you ask me). It’s in turn 66% owned by American Media Conglomerate Chatham Asset Management. It’s a bit of a piss take, as media in Canada is meant to be majority Canadian ownership. But there it is.

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        Excellent comment. I try to keep up with who owns what too, but it’s kinda like keeping track of food brands. There only so many owners, but the huge amount of brands (news sources) can make it difficult.

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          It’s also a very real problem, especially in rural areas of Canada, and small communities. Small papers are being bought up en masse, and replaced by generic tat “news” with little if any relevance to the communities, and instruction about what is acceptable for print filtering down ultimately from Chatham Assets, which is owned by Anthony Melchiorre, and is closely associated with the GOP. Ergo a Republican vehicle for disseminating approved information. This situation, where local governments of small communities and rural areas that in the past would have a local paper, now are using Meta products and Twitter to communicate with residents and kinda don’t have much in the way of options to change that.

          It’s not a great situation. And I think we’ll see that like with food and alcohol, a very small group of almost entirely American companies owns basically everything if you follow the shells to the top.

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      BBC in particular (who I would expect better from) are particularly anti-Palestinian and propping up Israel’s narrative.

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      Anyone able to download & seed this? I’d like to download & help seed when I’m able to get to my PC.

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        It’s not a torrent, daily motion is like a youtube or vimeo competitor. There’s torrents of it too though, but I dunno what public trackers are good these days.

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    It was slightly surprising to see the BBC make such a good documentary about Gaza. The BBC quickly corrected themselves. Palestinians are not allowed to be humanized.

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    It was slightly surprising to see the BBC make such a good documentary about Gaza. The BBC quickly corrected themselves. Palestinians are not allowed to be humanized.

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    Even ignoring the subject matter, it must feel great to work on a documentary only to have some shitty country have your work taken down.

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    It has been taken down because the kid involved is the son of a Hamas official, so there’s questions surrounding the authenticity and accuracy of the reporting. He’s not an ordinary Palestinian.